SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This week we have a personal story for our readers. We’ll also discuss how major data breaches occur, and what you can do to protect yourself in the Age of the Large Data Breach. It’s a heartwarming tale of multiple mass data compromises, which affected yours truly. Last week was special. How Website Security Breaches Occur.

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Cisco Security

JULY 25, 2022

Steve is a Senior Cybersecurity and Network Architect at Lake Trust Credit Union. Steve was the subject of a case study about the benefits that Cisco products have brought to Lake Trust Credit Unions’ customers. In the end, they, and their businesses have emerged even stronger. Blair Anderson. Kevin Brown.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 26, 2021

Another strategy North Korean hackers are using against security researchers is faking success stories. Security researchers are some of the unsung heroes within the cybersecurity field. They are the ones who look for and discover vulnerabilities before anyone else in the world knows about them. Let's take a look at four of them.

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Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 8, 2024

There’s a great story about two sisters in WWII who joined the Wrens, the women’s branch of the Royal Navy (fully integrated into the Royal Navy in the 1990’s). Technological advancements, social media, and societal and cultural changes present new challenges when it comes to cyber security. Hitler’s Deputy Rudolf Hess was among them.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Cybernews has the story. The Android challenge In the digital age, mobile applications have become an integral part of our lives, transforming the way we communicate, work, and entertain ourselves. For example, camera access is reasonable for a camera app or a social media app that allows users to capture and share photos.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2022

When KrebsOnSecurity recently explored how cybercriminals were using hacked email accounts at police departments worldwide to obtain warrantless Emergency Data Requests (EDRs) from social media firms and technology providers, many security experts called it a fundamentally unfixable problem. A sample Kodex dashboard. Image: Kodex.us.

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Spinone

MARCH 18, 2019

Gaining news exposure is generally a good thing for most businesses, especially if it is something positive presented. However, there is one type of headline that no organization wants to make. Hackers and other threat actors have this enormous mass of data squarely in their sights. No one is excluded from this threat.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 14, 2021

As we head to Hacker Summer Camp, how should we rebuild our infosec communities to be more inclusive and diverse? Jack Daniel offers his unique voice. I'm attending in person this year, as are a lot of people in the InfoSec world. And for a lot of us it's their first time out in more than a year. So lots of questions. This is a global pandemic.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 8, 2023

My first day at ZDNet there was a virus blowing up and my editor asked if I could do a story on that. Booth babes and rampant sexism were more of a problem in infosec in the past. That is, until Chenxi Wang spoke up. Today she runs a 100% woman owned VC. I said sure, then realized I didn’t know the first thing about computer viruses.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2019

Worse, the Internet, the rise of smartphones, and the culture of social media allow us to access these things from anywhere. The number one priority for parents should be to teach their children to protect themselves online and use social media safely. As a parent, that’s terrifying. The answer to this question isn’t simple.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 19, 2021

He credits one engineer at the Chinese propaganda department for helping solve a mystery that resulted in the largest film piracy takedown operation of all time, anywhere in the world. And it's also the story of the Two Horses gang and how they created a shadowy network of private cinemas in China. Yet, somewhere in China.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The researchers predict that soon it'll be hard to tell a human user at the keyboard, or at the mouse, from a bot or AI-driven entity. Vamosi: How do we know who’s on the other end of a connection, who it is that is logging into a computer or an account online? That's biometrics. Yeah, I’m a bona fide cynic. Think about it.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 23, 2022

Not all data privacy rights are the same. There’s the flimsy, the firm, the enforceable, and the antiquated, and, unfortunately, much of what determines the quality of your own data privacy rights is little more than your home address. This segmented, legislative push has created a patchwork quilt of privacy in the country.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

Maybe you are at an organization that requires you to change your passwords every 90 days or so, and so you have password fatigue -- there are only so many variations you can do every 90 days or so. One of the eight required domains in the current CISSP certification process is Identity and Access Management, or IAM. Keep it forever. And there is.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

Why ChatGPT security concerns are both overblown and valid Artificial intelligence (AI) was once a science fiction cautionary tale—stories consistently warned against designing machines capable of surpassing human ingenuity. But over the last 20 years, AI has transitioned from the stuff of nightmares to mainstream adoption.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 23, 2021

Under the proposed ban, police will still be able to use non-live facial recognition software with CCTV cameras to track our every move, scraping images from social media accounts without people’s consent.”. The proposal would ban, with some exceptions, four broad uses of AI.

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