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Practical Steps for Getting Started with IT/OT Security Convergence

Issued by: Security Week

Given the frequency and severity of cyberattacks in the news, cyber threats are top of mind for boards of directors and executive teams. In fact, according to Aon’s 2017 Global Risk Management Survey cybercrime ranked number five among the top 10 concerns for risk decision-makers globally and number one among respondents in North America –…

Network Security

The clock is ticking on GDPR: Is your business ready?

Issued by: Help Net Security

Despite having almost two years to prepare for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), there are companies across the globe that have done little, if anything, to avoid the hefty fines for non-compliance, despite being directly affected by the new law. In fact, businesses that fail to comply with the new standards for data collection and…

Network Security

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…

Network Security

How to Live by the Code of Good Bots

Issued by: Dark Reading

Although my company fights problems caused by malicious bots on the Internet, many bots are doing good things. These beneficial bots may help a site get better exposure, provide better product recommendations, or monitor critical online services. The most famous good bot is the Googlebot, which crawls links to build the search engine many of…

Vulnerabilities

Wifite : Hacking Wifi The Easy Way

Issued by: Linux Blog

While the aircrack-ng suite is a well known name in the wireless hacking , the same can’t be said about Wifite. Living in the shade of the greatness of established aircrack-ng suite, Wifite has finally made a mark in a field where aircrack-ng failed. It made wifi hacking everyone’s piece of cake.

Mobile Security

How to spot malicious mobile apps

Issued by: Help Net Security

The pervasiveness of smartphones has resulted in an onslaught of mobile apps, and it’s pretty safe to say that, by now, there is an app for every imaginable purpose. Unfortunately, among the many helpful ones are also many malicious apps – no app market is safe from them. Fortunately, there are ways to spot such…

Malware & Threats

Phishers’ techniques and behaviours, and what to do if you’ve been phished

Issued by: Help Net Security

Once a user has been phished, how long does it takes for the phishers to misuse the stolen credentials? To discover the answer to that question and many others, Imperva researchers went undercover by creating 90 personal online accounts, including email and file sharing accounts with Google and Dropbox. Once the so-called honey pot accounts…

Network Security

Five crucial ways to help keep a system safe from harm

Issued by: Help Net Security

We’re living in an incredible age of technology, invention and innovation. It’s hard to imagine that just a short time ago we couldn’t order groceries for delivery from our phones, or ask into the air any question, to be answered immediately by a robot sitting on a countertop. “Okay, Google — what do I have…

Network Security

Security’s blind spot: The long-term state of exception

Issued by: Help Net Security

It seems every major hack is accompanied by the pointing of fingers. And there are plenty of places to point them: the servers that weren’t patched, the retailer who hadn’t finished setting up an intrusion detection system, the high-ranking official who used his personal email to store secrets, the critical application with unfixed security holes…