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Latest Security Patch released by Microsoft
Microsoft has published today 80 security fixes across 15 products and services, as part of the company's monthly batch of security updates, known as Patch Tuesday. Of the 80 vulnerabilities patched today, two are so-called zero-days -- security flaws that had been...
How many of your employees don’t understand cybersecurity?
Did you know that in the U.S. 70% of employees lack a basic understanding of cybersecurity best practices? Vulnerabilities in your organization can lead to a major fallout in case of a cyberattack. Cyberattack simulation and invocation and test of incident response...
SSL – what it means, how it works and where it is used.
If you want to run commercial transactions, or process your website's data online securely, you need an SSL certificate for your website. Basically, it gives you the valid encryption for the website - and if you ever wondered what is the difference between domains...
Cyberthreats targeting municipalities are on the rise
Local governments are increasingly being targeted by cyber threats. These attacks typically come in the form on ransomware, holding the municipalities’ data hostage until either the ransom is paid or data is restored from a backup. Examples of ransomware attacks in...
How Hackers Can Exploit Medical Information
Cybersecurity breach in any industry is a serious matter. Healthcare professionals are some of the most vulnerable subjects. Not so long ago, one of the largest batch of data containing just over 9.2 million health insurance records was offered for sale on dark web -...
VOICE Summit, expecting 5,000 attendees, kicks off at NJIT
The New Jersey Institute of Technology is hosting the event from July 22 to July 25, featuring presentations and break-out sessions about a variety of technological innovations. The post VOICE Summit, expecting 5,000 attendees, kicks off at NJIT appeared first on NJBIZ.
Ad Fraud: one billion of sham Google AdSense ad impressions.
A new malware framework has been discovered padding statistics on social sites and ad impressions, according to new research from Flashpoint. Researchers explained that over the course of the past three months, the malware framework has been responsible for more than...
Interview with David Dadian, CEO of powersolution.com
https://njii.com/2019/07/16/interview-with-david-dadian-of-powersolution-com/ Interview with David Dadian of powersolution.com New Jersey Innovation Institute, an NJIT Corporation, July 16, 2019 Tamara Williams of New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) spoke with...
CBRE ranks Newark as top tech city
The Essex County city boasts more than 53,000 technology jobs, most in software development, computer programming and database system management, according to the report. The post CBRE ranks Newark as top tech city appeared first on NJBIZ.
What is Email Spoofing and How to Identify It?
The word spoof means falsified. A spoofed email is when the sender purposely alters parts of the email to make the message appear as though it was authored by someone else. Commonly, the sender’s name/address and the body of the message are formatted to appear from a...
What You Need to Know About The Dark Web
With the reporting on cybersecurity events such as city-wide ransomware events or massive data breaches making the 6 o’clock news, the dark web has been thrust into the spotlight. But what exactly is the dark web? Is it part of the Internet with the lights off? Is it...
NJIT to Establish New Institute for Data Science
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will establish a new Institute for Data Science, focusing on cutting-edge interdisciplinary research and development in all areas pertinent to digital data. The institute will bring existing research centers in big data,...
‘Smart Cities’ conference highlights Newark’s tech infrastructure
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and New Jersey Institute of Technology President Joel Bloom used the occasion of the June 26 New Jersey Alliance for Action Inaugural Statewide 5G Construction/Smart Cities Conference to tout the technology infrastructure that wires the...
Department of Homeland Security Phishing Scam
The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) is the Nation’s flagship cyber defense, incident response, and operational integration center. Its mission is to reduce the Nation’s risk of systemic cybersecurity and communications challenges....
Rutgers-Eaglton/FDU Poll: little evidence of a digital divide in New Jersey
According to the survey, 97 percent of state residents live in a household with access to the internet. The post Rutgers-Eaglton/FDU Poll: little evidence of a digital divide in New Jersey appeared first on NJBIZ.
NJ Tech Council celebrates annual 2019 CFO + Investor Awards
Richard Veldran, former chief financial officer for Dun & Bradstreet, began the ceremony with a keynote address detailing his involvement with taking the company private in February and noting the “tremendous lengths of innovation and technology...
Quest Diagnostics reports 12 million records of Patient Data Breach Due to Issue with a Vendor
Quest Diagnostics, the New Jersey-based blood testing providers in the country, filed a report with securities regulators, specifying that nearly 12 million of its customers may have had medical, financial, and personal information (inlcuding Social Security numbers)...
Cybersecurity Jobs Added to UK’s Shortage Occupation List
Cybersecurity engineers and analysts have been identified as being on the Shortage Occupation List (SOL), in the first full review of officially recognized careers where the shortages “are most severe and where the consequences of those shortages are most serious”...
Impersonation Phishing Attacks Up 67% in Last 12 Months
Mimecast has released its third annual State of Email Security Report and has found that phishing attacks have lost companies money, data and customers. Including insights from 1,025 global IT decision-makers, the report found that social engineering attacks were on...
Flipboard Breached in Nine-Month Raid
Flipboard has reset all customer passwords as a precaution after revealing that hackers had unauthorized access to user data for over nine months. The news aggregator site, which has around 150 million monthly users, said the “unauthorized person” gained access to...
Cryptopia Fights to Keep Data Held by Arizona Firm
Cryptopia, an exchange that was hacked and subsequently went into liquidation in May, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States. Grant Thornton will be handling the preservation of the data stored and hosted on servers with an Arizona-based firm,...
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada Makes Its Cybersecurity Bulletproof
The city of Fredericton, New Brunswick, has agreed to pay C$100,000 (almost $75,000) to cybersecurity company, Bulletproof Solutions, to strengthen its network and protect it from cyber-attacks. The three-year agreement was approved at the city council meeting on...
Equifax Has Spent Nearly $1.4billion on Data Breach Costs
Equifax has incurred losses so far of over $1.35bn from a devastating 2017 breach which affected more than half of all Americans and millions of UK consumers, the firm revealed in its latest financials. The credit agency claimed in its Q1 2019 earnings statement that...
WannaCry Remains a Global Threat Two Years On
WannaCry ransomware remains a global threat two years on from the initial outbreak of the attack in May 2017. That’s according to new analysis from Malwarebytes, which discovered that a total of 4,826,682 WannaCry detections have been identified since the malware...