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Industry analysts Piper Sandler do a yearly 'Industry Note' where they survey CIOs about their next year budget expectations. For 2024 there is a noticeable improvement regarding ...
The U.S. government created a new office to block disinformation. The new Foreign Malign Influence Center (FMIC) oversees efforts that span U.S. military, law enforcement, intelligence, ...
What is a security tech stack? This is a bare-bones quick overview.
Threat actors are using a couple of dangerous, new tactics to exploit the so-called ProxyShell set of vulnerabilities in on-premises Exchange Servers that Microsoft patched earlier this ...
ReliaQuest published a good article a little while back that quickly defines XDR and what it can do for you. This may save you some time and gets you up to speed on the latest security ...
VICE just revealed a 2FA hole you can drive a truck through. A gaping flaw in SMS lets hackers take over phone numbers in minutes by simply paying a company to reroute text messages. This ...
Brian Krebs wrote: "Globally, hundreds of thousand of organizations running Exchange email servers from Microsoft just got mass-hacked, including at least 30,000 victims in the United ...
Chinese and Russian state hackers threaten the Dutch economy. Three Dutch intelligence agencies jointly sound the alarm about digital espionage in financial newspaper Het Financieele ...
ZDNet's Zero Day column just reported one of the best reasons why you should step your users through new-school security awareness training yet:
Facts are facts, but what happens when IT security pros take myths at face value?
With an estimated 61% of Exchange servers in the wild still operating unpatched, this security flaw allows attackers to take over a vulnerable server using any set of valid email ...
“This is a historic shift to the global email threat landscape and portends new and sophisticated social engineering attacks that CISOs around the world must brace for now,” according to ...
Last year, in 2019 according to CVEdetails, there were 12,174 new, publicly announced vulnerabilities. If that sounds like a high number, it’s a lot less than the previous two years. We ...
Cybersecurity diligence performed prior to a merger or acquisition often uncovers weaknesses in an organization’s security stance, which can spell doom for the company being purchased and ...
Using SMS messaging, attackers can use phishing tactics to hijack mobile devices using a legacy piece of SIM code, called the S@T Browser, to execute commands as part of a more ...
One of the greatest inventions in modern history is the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. I feel sorry for any human who existed before the “age of the cup” because they never got to know the ...
Having spent over a decade as part of the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence and the Counterterrorism Mission Center, Rosa Smothers knows the ins and outs of leading cyber operations ...
I’m a bit surprised by some aggressive corporate anti-phishing policies which say they will fire anyone for one accidental phishing offense. Send me the names and email addresses of the ...
You already know that using multi-factor authentication (MFA) can decrease your cybersecurity risk, and certainly is a much stronger defense compared to using traditional passwords alone. ...
Black Hat 2019 - The Craziest, Most Terrifying Things We Saw: I ran into Neil Rubenking when I went to the Qualys party which was in the Foundation Room all the way on top of the ...
