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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

Fifteen years after the launch of the microblogging social media platform, Twitter remains a dominant public forum for instant communication with individuals and organizations worldwide on a universe of topics, including #cybersecurity. Top Cybersecurity Experts to Follow on Twitter. Binni Shah | @binitamshah. Eva Galperi n | @evacide.

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SPOTLIGHT: Women in Cybersecurity

McAfee

There are new and expanding opportunities for women’s participation in cybersecurity globally as women are present in greater numbers in leadership. Forrester also predicts that the number of women CISOs at Fortune 500 companies will rise to 20 percent in 2019 , compared with 13 percent in 2017.

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Feds Warn About Critical Infrastructure Ransomware Attacks, Vulnerabilities

eSecurity Planet

cybersecurity agencies, which highlighted the threats in a pair of warnings issued in recent days. And the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added 15 more vulnerabilities to its list of actively exploited vulnerabilities. cybersecurity advisories in recent weeks. The FBI and U.S.

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Russia-linked APT28 uses fake Windows Update instructions to target Ukraine govt bodies

Security Affairs

CERT-UA observed the campaign in April 2023, the malicious e-mails with the subject “Windows Update” were crafted to appear as sent by system administrators of departments of multiple government bodies. Most of the APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks.

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What is Cybersecurity?

SiteLock

As high-profile data breaches, such as Equifax , continue to dominate headlines, the topic of cybersecurity –or lack thereof–has commanded greater attention. The word ‘cybersecurity’ has become the media’s latest buzzword…and for good reason. Cybersecurity Definition. Different Types of Cybersecurity. Website Security.

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MY TAKE: Memory hacking arises as a go-to tactic to carry out deep, persistent incursions

The Last Watchdog

That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. It was designed to make it convenient for system administrators to automate tasks and manage configurations across all Windows endpoints and servers in a company network. Fast forward to 2017. Instead, memory attacks are transient.

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10 Unbelievable Ways the CIA Is Failing at Cybersecurity

SecureWorld News

It was this week's bombshell cybersecurity news. Some of the most secret parts of the CIA appear to have worse cybersecurity than a typical small or medium-sized business (SMB). Senator Ron Wyden revealed that this has been known within the agency for years and well documented, yet "woefully lax" cybersecurity persists.