SC Magazine

MAY 19, 2021

The cybersecurity industry loves to talk up the risks of new technology. We know “awareness” isn’t the problem, and that word starts to feel like the broken record of cybersecurity. So, as the dust settles, more and more conscientious business leaders who care about their organization’s cybersecurity ask themselves: What do we do?

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Marketing Cybersecurity Government Risk 68

IT Security Guru

JANUARY 12, 2021

This is a reminder I get every day when I interact with people from the cybersecurity fraternity, most of whom say that they landed a career in cybersecurity purely by chance. I recently made a LinkedIn post asking people to share their stories about how they happened to become cybersecurity professionals. How can I get started?

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

The botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86. The researchers attribute the botnet to the cybercrime group Keksec which focuses on DDoS-based extortion. The Enemybot botnet employs several methods to spread and targets other IoT devices. Upon installing the threat, the bot drops a file in /tmp/.pwned

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2019

According to the ENISA Threat Landscape Report 2018, 2018 has brought significant changes in the techniques, tactics, and procedures associated with cybercrime organizations and nation-state actors. Public organisations struggle with staff retention due to strong competition with industry in attracting cybersecurity talents.

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Jane Frankland

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

So, having just written my predictions for cybersecurity for the coming year, which will be coming to you shortly, I thought I’d look back at the ones I made for this year (for the International Security Journal (ISJ) ) and discover how accurate they were. Regretfully, I’ve not seen as much change as I would have liked.

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SC Magazine

MAY 1, 2021

Each year, a select pool of experts from the cybersecurity community sets hours aside to review hundreds of entries received for the SC Trust and Excellence Awards. Dan Basile is the chief information security officer for the RELLIS campus at the Texas A&M University System and director of Statewide Cybersecurity Services.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The Outlaw Botnet uses brute force and SSH exploit (exploit Shellshock Flaw and Drupalgeddon2 vulnerability ) to achieve remote access to the target systems, including server and IoT devices. 14 ) performs a first check on CPU architecture and a second one on the number of processors. Technical Analysis.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The next three actions: prioritize assets and evaluate traffic, microsegmentation, and adaptive monitoring are central steps of the zero trust architecture and greatly reduce your risks of an attack. Others go further in estimating ransomware will cost as much as $6 trillion per year starting in 2021 ( Cybersecurity Ventures ).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 11, 2023

By Chinatu Uzuegbu, CISSP, CEO/Managing Cyber Security Consultant at RoseTech CyberCrime Solutions Ltd. The post #IdentityManagementDay – Best Practices to Help Keep Your Organization Secure appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Back in 2004, when I co-wrote this USA TODAY cover story about spam -spreading botnets, I recall advising my editor to expect cybersecurity to be a headline-grabbing topic for a year or two more, tops. Related: A primer on machine-identity exposures. I was wrong.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Microsoft recently released its Digital Defense Report 2022 , examining the current threat landscape, touching on the first "hybrid war" that is the Ukraine-Russia conflict, reviewing the current state of cybercrime, and identifying the characteristics needed to successfully defend against future threats. The key takeaway?

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