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New certification program trains cyber pros in cloud, IoT and other emerging tech

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A visitor looks at an IoT & 5G motherboard at the booth of STMicroelectronics during Electronica China 2021 at Shanghai New International Expo Centre on April 14, 2021 in Shanghai, China. The world of IoT is a vast one to learn for infosec practitioners, but ultimately it comes down to seeing them tiny computers, said Brewer.

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From a tech explosion to accidental cyberattacks, researchers offer a glimpse into 2030

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Enter Project 2030, a collaboration between Oxford Visiting Researcher Victoria Baines and Trend Micro Vice President of Security Research Rik Ferguson, which uses a mixture of survey data and forward-thinking understanding of technology to predict the infosec concerns a decade from now.

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Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2020-2021. EU statistics

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One more constellation of vulnerabilities that appeared in the infosec sky was a threesome of critical bugs in the popular SolarWinds Orion Platform – CVE-2021-25274 , CVE-2021-25275 , CVE-2021-25276. IoT attacks. IoT threat statistics. Cryptocurrency. The number of cryptocurrency-related phishing detections tripled.

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IT threat evolution Q1 2021. Non-mobile statistics

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For now, we can tentatively assume that the growth in cryptocurrency prices, in particular bitcoin, has attracted the attention of cybercriminals and returned miners to their toolkit. IoT attacks. IoT threat statistics. Number of unique users attacked by miners, Q1 2021 ( download ). Trojan-Downloader.Shell.Agent.p.

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DDoS attacks in Q2 2022

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The incident prompted the school district administration to contract a specialized infosec provider for DDoS protection. DDoS attacks on websites associated with cryptocurrency are anything but rare. They are often timed to coincide with landmark events, such as new cryptocurrency launches and rate fluctuations.

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IT threat evolution in Q2 2022. Non-mobile statistics

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The Conti infrastructure was shut down in late June, but some in the infosec community believe that Conti members are either just rebranding or have split up and joined other ransomware teams, including Hive, AvosLocker and BlackCat. IoT attacks. IoT threat statistics. TOP 10 threats delivered to IoT devices via Telnet.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Learn Competitive Hacking with picoCTF

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PPP wanted to give their past high school selves the infosec education they didn’t have. Megan Kerns of Carnegie-Mellon University joins The Hacker Mind to talk about the early days and the continued evolution of this popular online infosec competition site. in InfoSec however, learning happens 365 days a year.

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