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Machine Identities, Human Identities, and the Risks They Pose

Security Boulevard

That’s the highest volume of attempts spotted in a single month since APWG first initiated its reporting program back in 2004. They can do that by leveraging security awareness training to augment their familiarity with phishing attacks and other social engineering techniques.

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Top Network Detection & Response (NDR) Solutions

eSecurity Planet

Today, both outsiders with the right social engineering skills and disgruntled personnel pose risks to sensitive data when network architectures fail to implement microsegmentation and advanced network traffic analysis (NTA). Automated analysis for threats with prioritized workflows to respond fast. Network Security and NDR.

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Happy 10th anniversary & Kali's story.so far

Kali Linux

Quick history lesson It all began in 2004, with Whoppix , a security operating system based on Knoppix. Longer history lesson Knoppix - Initial two weeks work Whoppix (White-Hat and knOPPIX) came about as the founder, @Muts, was doing an in-person air-gap network penetration test lasting for two weeks in 2004.

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