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Your Security Awareness Program Stinks. Here’s Something You Can Do About It

Issued by: Security Intelligence

If you ask a group of technology and business professionals to rank the most important parts of their security program, awareness and training will undoubtedly land in the top three. After all, many breaches start with users and, on the flip side, can be prevented by users. It’s all about setting expectations. Unfortunately, many such…

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Security Pros Admit Snooping on Corporate Network: Survey

Issued by: Security Week

IT security professionals, particularly executives, often access information that is not relevant to their day-to-day work, according to a new One Identity study focusing on “snooping” on the corporate network. Dimensional Research polled more than 900 IT security professionals on behalf of One Identity. The respondents were from various types of companies in the United…

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What Mr. Robot can teach us all about security

Issued by: Kaspersky Blog

Mr. Robot has won the hearts and captured the minds of a lot of people around the globe by showing a captivating view of the information security world — and how vulnerable we all are to cyberattacks. When you see how main character Elliot and the hacker group fsociety hack whole corporations, never mind just…

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Israel hacked Kaspersky, caught Russia using the software to hack U.S.

Issued by: CSO

Instead of promoting goodwill relations with Israel, U.S. intelligence threw Israeli intelligence under the bus when explaining how Israel hacked Kaspersky and caught Russia using Kaspersky to search for NSA exploits and other U.S. government classified programs. The New York Times reported, “It was a case of spies watching spies watching spies: Israeli intelligence officers…

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North Korea Hacked Seoul’s War Plans: Report

Issued by: Security Week

North Korean computer hackers have stolen hundreds of classified military documents from South Korea including detailed wartime operational plans involving its US ally, a report said Tuesday. Rhee Cheol-Hee, a lawmaker for the ruling Democratic party, said the hackers had broken into the South’s military network last September and gained access to 235 gigabytes of…

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Disqus, Forrester Research suffer data breach

Issued by: Help Net Security

Popular blog comment hosting service Disqus and market research company Forrester Research announced late on Friday that they’ve suffered a breach. While the latter was apparently limited to content made available to Forrester clients through Forrester.com, the former resulted in the theft of account data for some 17.5 million users.

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Feds nab tech-savvy cyberstalker from hell with help from VPN provider

Issued by: CSO

Can you say psycho? At least that is what a person might think after learning about a cyberstalking campaign which seems more like something out of a horror flick than real life. However, an affidavit shows what a technically savvy yet twisted mind can do. The cyberstalking continued for more than a year and a…

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Equifax, former CEO reveal more details about the devastating breach

Issued by: Help Net Security

Mandiant has concluded the forensic part of its Equifax breach investigation, and the results are as follows: 2.5 million additional US consumers were potentially impacted, bringing the total to 145.5 million The initial estimate of some 100,000 Canadian citizens being impacted was incorrect: in the end, the information of some 8,000 Canadian consumers was compromised,…

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National Cyber Security Awareness Month for Organizations

Issued by: Trend Micro Blog

The month of October 2017 is again the National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) for individuals and organizations. This year’s theme is shared responsibility which is something we’ve been talking a lot about when it comes to public cloud support for many years. This year Trend Micro will be supporting NCSAM with a new blog…

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Searching for unicorns: Managing expectations to find cybersecurity talent

Issued by: CSO

Attrition is up, and cyber attacks are on the rise. With continued burnout and a growing skills gap in an industry where mentorship is a lost art, how can enterprises prepare for resiliency? Feeding the pipeline to fill the jobs of today and tomorrow means IT leaders must change their hiring biases, broaden their gaze,…