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Protecting your Customers and Brand in 2022: Are you doing enough?

Jane Frankland

Targeted attacks like these, plus social engineering, specifically phishing – where attackers pose as a trusted source, prey on human vulnerability, and use email or malicious websites to gain the information they want – are effective but they aren’t the only problem. Many organisations have reported on the situation.

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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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Top Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) Vendors

eSecurity Planet

Breach and attack simulation (BAS) is a relatively new IT security technology that can automatically spot vulnerabilities in an organization’s cyber defenses, akin to continuous, automated penetration testing. FireMon is a Dallas-based vendor for cybersecurity, compliance, and risk mitigation started in 2004. Red Teaming.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

1970-1995 — Kevin Mitnick — Beginning in 1970, Kevin Mitnick penetrates some of the most highly-guarded networks in the world, including Nokia and Motorola, using elaborate social engineering schemes, tricking insiders into handing over codes and passwords, and using the codes to access internal computer systems.