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Federal Contractor? Insider Threat Training Deadline June 1- Don't Lose Your Clearance

Insider Threat Training Requirement for US Gov't Contractors (Deadline May 31, 2017) SANS just alerted US federal contractors that wish to maintain their clearances must have completed an ...

How A Fake Cybersecurity Statistic Raced Through Washington

Nextgov wrote: "It’s the kind of figure that can make your jaw drop, the kind that forces lawmakers and public officials to get off their duffs and do something, that drives home the way ...

How Good Is Antivirus Software At Protecting Itself? 32 Products Tested:

For the third time now, the experts at AV-TEST examined a large number of the security software applications on the market in terms of how well they protect themselves. The focus was on ...

Warren Buffett: "Cyber Security Is The Number One Problem With Mankind".

Business Insider just wrote: "Warren Buffett sees cyber attacks as a bigger threat to humanity than nuclear weapons. "I'm very pessimistic on weapons of mass destruction generally ...

Cyber Security: “We have met the enemy and it is us.”

By Laura DiDio, Principal at ITIC, a research and consulting firm based in the Boston area. “We have met the enemy and it is us.” This quote aptly describes the current state of security ...

UK Cybersecurity Report: "Ransomware Is Urgent Issue"

Today, the UK Government issued a comprehensive report called: "Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2017" and covered the skyrocketing ransomware infections. The report highlighted: "The ...

The three ‘B’s’ of cybersecurity for small businesses

I just found a great article by Scott Shackelford, Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics; Director, Ostrom Workshop Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance; ...

[ALERT] You Want To Fix This MS-Word 0-day Threat Today

Monday night, researchers sounded the alarm about a critical 0-day threat known as CVE-2017-0199 in Microsoft Word that allowed booby-trapped Dridex phishing attacks be sent to millions ...

91% of cyberattacks begin with spear phishing email

Antony Savvas at Computerworld UK had a good write-up about this quite interesting news: "Some 91% of cyberattacks begin with a "spear phishing" email, according to research from security ...

Weak passwords STILL subvert IT security

Jaikumar Vijayan over at Computerworld observed correctly: "A recent data breach that exposed the Social Security numbers of more than 280,000 people served as yet another reminder of the ...


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