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The importance of career pathing in the cybersecurity industry
A major issue facing our industry right now is a significant shortage of talented, skilled cybersecurity professionals. Whether that’s due to lack of interest or a fundamental …
Don’t sleep on laptop security, safeguard your data
For many of us, shutting our laptops after a tough day in the office is a satisfying feeling that signals the end of work until tomorrow. But what we don’t realise is that …
Week in review: Office 365 phishing, compromising networks with malicious faxes
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: AT&T sued for enabling SIM swap fraud A cryptocurrency investor is suing …
Endpoint breach prevention by reducing attack surfaces
In this podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2018, Chris Carlson, VP of Product Management, Cloud Agent Platform at Qualys, talks about endpoint breach prevention by reducing …
Busting the security myth: Should I use WordPress for my website?
WordPress has been around for 15 years. Today it powers around 30% of the top 10 million websites on the internet. Being such a popular platform, WordPress has been in the …
2.6 billion records exposed in 2,300 disclosed breaches so far this year
Risk Based Security released its Mid-Year 2018 Data Breach QuickView report, showing there have been 2,308 publicly disclosed data compromise events through June 30th. After a …
Cloud computing remains top emerging business risk
Cloud computing ranks as the top risk concern for executives in risk, audit, finance and compliance, according to the latest survey by Gartner. In Gartner’s latest quarterly …
eBook: Windows PowerShell Scripting Tutorial
This promotion has ended. This PowerShell tutorial opens with an introduction to PowerShell scripting basics. It guides you through various topics, starting with launching …
Chaos and confusion reign with existing firewall infrastructure
Many organizations are still struggling to master basic firewall hygiene, promising increased complexity and risk associated with network security policy management for those …
DDoS attackers increasingly strike outside of normal business hours
DDoS attack volumes have increased by 50% to an average of 3.3 Gbps during May, June and July 2018, compared to 2.2 Gbps during the previous quarter, according to Link11. …
PSD2 SCA requirements will be implemented soon, are you ready?
As the second Payment Services Directive continues its rollout, regulations making it obligatory for organisations to implement strong customer authentication (SCA) in online …
Hack the Marine Corps bug bounty program kicks off
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and HackerOne launched the Department’s sixth bug bounty program, Hack the Marine Corps. The bug bounty challenge will focus on Marine …