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May 2022 Patch Tuesday forecast: Look beyond just application and OS updates
April Patch Tuesday provided an extensive set of operating system and application updates after a few quiet months. Microsoft addressed 97 vulnerabilities in Windows 10, and …
Smart government agencies are opting for multicloud environments
In recent years, there had been more cyberattacks, ransomware events, and an ongoing discovery of potential vulnerabilities within an IT infrastructure. In addition, the …
Nothing personal: Training employees to identify a spear phishing attack
Phishing attacks began years ago as simple spam, designed to trick recipients into visiting sites and becoming customers. In the meantime, they have morphed into a worldwide …
Tackling the threats posed by shadow IT
While remote technologies have allowed businesses to shift their workforces online, this flexibility has created a swathe of challenges for IT teams who must provide a robust …
Passwords are secrets that should never be shared
A weak password is one of the easiest way for attackers to steal valuable information about a person from their accounts, and then commit crimes with it. The stronger the …
7 threat detection challenges CISOs face and what they can do about it
Security operations (SecOps) teams continue to be under a constant deluge of new attacks and malware variants. In fact, according to recent research, there were over 170 …
How to identify vulnerabilities with NMAP
In this video for Help Net Security, Shani Dodge Reiner, Development Team Leader at Vicarius, explains how to identify vulnerabilities using the NMAP tool. NMAP is a very …
Self-promotion in cybersecurity: Why you should do it, and how
The cybersecurity market is hot! In 2021 Pinpoint Search Group recorded 300 funding rounds invested into cybersecurity vendors that added up to over $20 billion. 158 of those …
The 6 steps to a successful cyber defense
The Ransomware Spotlight Year-End Report from Ivanti, conducted in partnership with Cyber Security Works and Cyware, found that there is now a total of 157 ransomware families …
How to enhance your cyber defense program with CIS SecureSuite
Join this webinar to learn how you can prioritize your security program to meet the requirements of regulatory and compliance frameworks with the CIS Critical Security …
RSAC Innovation Sandbox Contest finalists announced
RSA Conference announced the 10 finalists for its 17th annual RSAC Innovation Sandbox Contest. The competition calls on the most promising young companies in cybersecurity to …
TLStorm 2.0: Critical bugs in widely-used Aruba, Avaya network switches
Armis researchers have discovered five critical vulnerabilities in the implementation of TLS communications in multiple models of network switches. Collectively dubbed TLStorm …
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