Tag: elections
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The security industry is genuinely willing to help you do good work
An article at Cyberscoop lists security companies that are offering assistance to protect election systems, for example by protecting against DDoS attacks, performing penetration testing or providing anti-virus software, for free or at a significant discount. The list, which isn’t complete (for example Google also offers free DDoS protection for election systems), is topical given…
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The security industry is genuinely willing to help you do good work
An article at Cyberscoop lists security companies that are offering assistance to protect election systems, for example by protecting against DDoS attacks, performing penetration testing or providing anti-virus software, for free or at a significant discount. The list, which isn’t complete (for example Google also offers free DDoS protection for election systems), is topical given…
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Let’s not help attackers by spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt
A week and a half after the outbreak of (Not)Petya , we are still not 100% certain about the motivation of the attackers. Was it a (failed) attempt to extort money from a large number of organizations? Did a nation-state-affiliated group intend to take an armed conflict into the cyber realm by causing as much…
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Let’s not help attackers by spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt
A week and a half after the outbreak of (Not)Petya , we are still not 100% certain about the motivation of the attackers. Was it a (failed) attempt to extort money from a large number of organizations? Did a nation-state-affiliated group intend to take an armed conflict into the cyber realm by causing as much…
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High spam catch rates continue in latest spam filter test
US presidential candidates regularly see their emails blocked by spam filters. Yet again, there was good news for most participants in the bi-monthly VBSpam spam filters tests: spam catch rates for most products remained very high. There was good news when it came to false positives too. Solutions blocked few to no emails from the…