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☆ The proper reading order for TikTok-famous author Sarah J. Maas' 16 books, from 'A Court of Thorns and Roses' to 'The Assassin's Blade'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Samantha Grindell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

BookTok can't get enough of Sarah J. Maas' fantasy series, especially "A Court of Thorns and Roses." Here's the reading order I'd recommend as an avid fan of Maas' books. However, I don't think reading the "Throne of Glass" books in the order they were published offers the best narrative experience. After her two longer series, Maas readers will be ready for the 'Crescent City' booksHalf-fae Bryce Quinlan is at a crossroads when the "Crescent City" series begins, grieving the murder of her best friends by a demon. BloomsburyI would absolutely leave "Crescent City" as your third Maas series for a few reasons.

Persons: BookTok, Sarah J, Maas, —, she's, ahem, Feyre Archeron, Frost, Celaena, Adarlan, fae Bryce Quinlan, Bryce, Hunt Athalar, — they're, I'd, Bryce Quinlan's Organizations: Service, The New York Times, Marvel, Hulu, Wings, Silver Flames, Bloomsbury Locations: TikTok, Maas, Bloomsbury, Adarlan, Crescent, Crescent City

☆ CEO, ex-NSA hacker says ‘people hate’ this advice—but it’s your ‘single biggest’ protection from scams
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

"Everybody hates multi-factor authentication," cybersecurity expert and former government hacker Kyle Hanslovan tells CNBC Make It. Microsoft has claimed that multi-factor authentication can prevent 99.9% of cyberattacks on personal accounts. Fewer than half of U.S. small business-owners require employees and customers to use multi-factor authentication, according to the Cyber Readiness Institute. They're more likely to choose the path of least resistance whenever they come across an obstacle, like an extra step for authentication, Hanslovan says. "If you [use multi-factor authentication] and choose that app, you're almost ahead of most of the pack and attackers will move to somebody who's the slowest one."

Persons: Kyle Hanslovan, Huntress, Hanslovan, I've, you've, Warren Buffett Organizations: CNBC, U.S . Air Force, National Security Agency, Air National Guard, Microsoft, Duo Security, Cyber Readiness, Mobile, Google Locations: U.S

[1/2] A sign indicates the direction to the offices of Progress Software in Burlington, Massachusetts, U.S., July 26, 2023. But more than two months after the breach was first disclosed by Massachusetts-based Progress Software, the parade of victims has scarcely slowed. The tallies show that nearly 40 million people have been affected so far by the hack of Progress' MOVEit Transfer file management program. Now the digital extortionists involved, a group named "cl0p", have become increasingly aggressive about thrusting their data into the public domain. MOVEit is used by organizations to ship large amounts of often sensitive data: pension information, social security numbers, medical records, billing data and the like.

Persons: Brian Snyder, Marc Bleicher, cl0p, Huntress Security's John Hammond, Christopher Budd, Sophos, Eric Goldstein, Nathan Little, Emsisoft, Bert Kondruss, Rowe Price, Maximus, Alexander Urbelis, Crowell, Goldstein, didn't, Surefire's, Raphael Satter, Zeba Siddiqui, Chris Sanders, Grant McCool Organizations: Progress Software, REUTERS, FRANCISCO, Reuters, Software, Insurance, of America, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Security Agency, Tetra Defense, WHO, Pension, California Public Employees, Moring, U.S ., Thomson Locations: Burlington , Massachusetts, U.S, WASHINGTON, American, Massachusetts, York, New York, Louisiana, California, New York City, Oregon

CORPORATE DROPBOXESFTA, GoAnywhere MFT, and MOVEit Transfer are corporate versions of file sharing programs consumers use all the time, like Dropbox or WeTransfer. MFT software often promises the ability to automate the movement of data, transfer documents at scale and provide fine-grained control over who can access what. MFT PROGRAMS CAN BE TEMPTING TARGETSRunning an extortion operation against a well-defended corporation is reasonably difficult, said Recorded Future analyst Allan Liska. "If you can get to one of these file transfer points, all the data is right there. HACKER TACTICS ARE SHIFTINGScooping up data that way is becoming an increasingly important part of the way hackers operate.

Persons: Ransom, GoAnywhere MFT, James Lewis, WeTransfer, Allan Liska, Bam, Liska, Joe Slowik, Huntress, Raphael Satter, Grant McCool Organizations: Software, GoAnywhere, Thomson

☆ US government agencies hit in global hacking spree
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

June 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. government has been hit in a global hacking campaign that exploited a vulnerability in widely used software but does not expect it to have significant impact, the nation's cyber watchdog agency said on Thursday. CISA did not identify the agencies that were hit or say exactly how they had been affected. The FBI and National Security Agency also did not immediately respond to emails seeking details on the breaches. MOVEit, made by Progress Software Corp (PRGS.O), is typically used by organizations to transfer files between their partners or customers. Neither Cl0p nor Progress immediately responded to requests for comment.

Persons: Eric Goldstein, cybersecurity, CISA, Jen, MOVEit, John Hammond, Huntress, Raphael Satter, Kanishka Singh, Zeba Siddiqui, Tanna, Chandi Shah, Jonathan Oatis, Angus MacSwan, Bill Berkrot Organizations: U.S, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Security Agency, CNN, FBI, National Security Agency, MSNBC, Progress Software Corp, Progress, CITY, Thomson Locations: U.S, United States

☆ The most-popular big tech default email programs are old and vulnerable
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( Elizabeth Macbride | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +13 min

All over the world, organizations of all sizes, including small businesses, scrambled to upload patches and to figure out if they'd been infiltrated. Each time big software companies have changed default settings or made blanket changes with cybersecurity in mind, he points out, cybercrime fell measurably. Some of its donors are big technology companies. "Microsoft takes email security very seriously," said Girish Chander, head of Microsoft Defender for Office, in a statement to CNBC. Updating email software default settings.

☆ 1.000 de companii afectate de atacul cibernetic al hackerilor în SUA; În Suedia, casele a 800 de supermarketuri au paralizat
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-04 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +3 min

Prima consecinţă a acestui atac cibernetic a fost aceea că un mare lanţ de supermarketuri din Suedia a trebuit să închidă sâmbătă peste 800 de magazine, casele sale fiind paralizate de atac. Conform estimării firmei de securitate IT Huntress Labs, "peste 1.000 de companii" au fost afectate de acest atac ransomware. Specialiştii americani în securitate IT suspectează că în spatele acestui atac cibernetic s-ar afla gruparea de hackeri ruşi REvil, informează Reuters. Preşedintele Biden, care a ordonat sâmbătă o anchetă, a afirmat că "primul gând a fost că nu a fost vorba de guvernul rus, dar încă nu suntem siguri". Agenţia americană pentru securitate cibernetică şi securitate a infrastructurii (CISA) "monitorizează îndeaproape situaţia", potrivit unui oficial al instituţiei, Eric Goldstein.

Persons: Reuters, Mulţi, Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin . Preşedintele Biden, Eric Goldstein, Alfred Saikali, Hardy, Bacon Organizations: Kaseya Locations: SUA, Suedia, Miami, Statele Unite, Rusia

☆ Сотни американских фирм стали жертвами кибератак. Это связывают с хакерами из России
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-03 | by ( ) nokta.md time to read: +2 min

Около 200 американских фирм пострадали от кибератаки на американскую IT-компанию Kaseya, которая поставляет им программное обеспечение и удаленно управляет им. Одной из первых о кибератаке на Kaseya сообщила компания Huntress Labs, специализирующаяся на кибербезопасности. В свою очередь Huntress Labs оценивает число только американских клиентов Kaseya, затронутых кибератакой, примерно в 200 компаний и отмечает, что это число продолжает расти. По данным Huntress Labs, компания Kaseya стала жертвой вируса-вымогателя, который после этого распространился по корпоративным сетям, использующим ее программное обеспечение. Хакеры требуют от жертв кибератаки перевести им по 45 тысяч долларов в криптовалюте, отмечает Huntress Labs.

Persons: REvil —, JBS Organizations: Labs, Huntress, Huntress Labs, ВВС, ФБР Locations: Россия, США по кибербезопасность и инфраструктура, Техас

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