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1. Why Data Privacy Should Be on President Biden's Agenda for His First 100 Days

   The new administration is in an excellent position to make significant progress on data privacy -- not just because it's needed, but also because it's time.

2. Microsoft Exchange Server Exploits Hit Retail, Government, Education

   Mandiant researchers identify a range of victims affected in attacks targeting newly reported Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities.

3. Microsoft Adopted an 'Aggressive' Strategy for Sharing SolarWinds Attack Intel

   Rob Lefferts, corporate vice president for Microsoft 365 Security in Security and Compliance, explains the company's approach to keeping its customers and the industry apprised and updated on its findings from the now-infamous attack.

4. 5 Ways Social Engineers Crack Into Human Beings

   These common human traits are the basic ingredients in the con-man's recipe for trickery.

5. Realistic Patch Management Tips, Post-SolarWinds

   Patch management and testing are different, exactly the same, and completely out of hand. Here are tips from the experts on how to wrangle patches in a time of malicious software updates.

6. On International Women's Day 2021, Does the 'Rule of Steve' Still Apply? Yes.

   On International Women's Day 2021, gender diversity has improved in cybersecurity, but there is still a long way to go.

7. Encrypted Traffic Strategies

8. Make Sure That Stimulus Check Lands in the Right Bank Account

   If you haven't already, it's time to build trust relationships with your financial institutions, using strong security, privacy protections and secure, unique user credentials.

9. Business Apps Spoofed in 45% of Impersonation Attacks

   Business-related applications like those from Microsoft, Zoom, and DocuSign are most often impersonated in brand phishing attacks.

10. Healthcare Still Seeing High Level of Attacker Activity

    Interest in vaccines is driving all sorts of activity, reports say, from vaccine-specific phishing to growing bot traffic on healthcare sites.