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Businesses find remote work security risks less daunting than before

After two years of the pandemic, confidence in addressing certain security risks and threats arising from hybrid and remote work has improved among businesses and organizations around the world. When it comes to secure access to applications, data, and systems, 84% of IT professionals this year said they have some degree of confidence in their current user access security systems to enable remote work securely and easily, compared to 56% in 2021, according to a … More → The post Businesses find remote work security risks less daunting than before appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Insider threat task force pivoting focus to ‘safeguarding science’

The National Insider Threat Task Force is raising awareness about phishing, social engineering and other modern tactics, while also gearing up for a new push aimed at “safeguarding science,” according to its deputy director.
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Income plays a role in participants’ likeliness to change TSP contributions, FRTIB finds

35% of TSP participants in the lowest income bracket did not make changes to their TSP accounts after being automatically enrolled, a significantly higher percentage the other four brackets.
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Why zero trust should be the foundation of your cybersecurity ecosystem

For cybersecurity professionals, it is a huge challenge to separate the “good guys” from the “villains”. In the past, most cyberattacks could simply be traced to external cybercriminals, cyberterrorists, or rogue nation-states. But not anymore. Threats from within organizations – also known as “insider threats” – are increasing and cybersecurity practitioners are feeling the pain. Traditional perimeter defenses are not designed to prevent these attacks. They also struggle to keep external attackers out. Clever hackers … More → The post Why zero trust should be the foundation of your cybersecurity ecosystem appeared first on Help Net Security.
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ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=8190, (Tue, Sep 27th)

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McDonough says VA needs to hire 45K nurses over next 3 years to keep up with attrition

The Department of Veterans Affairs is looking at a major, across-the-board hiring initiative as the agency looks to bring even more patients into its health care network.
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Long-time columnist Mike Causey dead at 82

Causey was a figure in the federal workforce and D.C. journalism worlds for more than 50 years.
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Zoho ManageEngine flaw is actively exploited, CISA warns

A remote code execution vulnerability in Zoho’s ManageEngine, a popular IT management solution for enterprises, is being exploited in the wild. The US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the flaw to its catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities last week, highlighting an immediate threat for organizations that haven’t yet patched their vulnerable deployments. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-3540, was privately reported to Zoho in June by a security researcher identified as Vinicius and was fixed later that same month. The researcher posted a more detailed writeup at the beginning of this month and, according to him, it’s a Java deserialization flaw inherited from an outdated version of Apache OFBiz, an open-source enterprise resource planning system, where it was patched in 2020 (CVE-2020-9496). This means that the Zoho ManageEngine products were vulnerable for two years due a failure to update a third-party component. To read this article in full, please click here
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