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How to spot your biggest security threat? Just look out for the humans

If you’re wondering why, here’s a primer Sponsored Post   How would you describe the biggest security threat to your organization? Perhaps you envision a faceless cybercrime syndicate or hostile state. Or a humming botnet, remorselessly probing your systems.…

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How to spot your biggest security threat? Just look out for the humans

ThreatX API Protection Quick Start Program enables businesses to extend security to their APIs

ThreatX launched its API Protection Quick Start Program, designed to help organizations better protect their APIs by rapidly deploying real-time protection against botnet, DDoS and complex, multi-mode attacks. APIs are a gold mine for attackers because they enable applications to share information and are increasingly used to streamline communication between consumers and business partners. As a result, the adoption of APIs has far outpaced security teams’ ability to protect against threats, leaving the systems they … More ? The post ThreatX API Protection Quick Start Program enables businesses to extend security to their APIs appeared first on Help Net Security .

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81% of healthcare organizations have been compromised

Eighty-one percent of health care executives say that their organizations have been compromised by at least one malware, botnet, or other cyber-attack during the past two years, and only half feel tha…

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DDoS attack volumes plummet as NTP servers got patched

Wise to attackers’ exploitation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) vulnerability to create distributed reflection denial of service (DrDoS) attacks, information security executives thwarted these type…

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