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News alert: MxD roundtable with White House officials highlights cybersecurity workforce needs

The Last Watchdog

Organizations gathered to discuss courses and programs to address the critical cybersecurity workforce needs in the United States. Each participating organization is committed to developing cyber skills and programs to train the workforce across a wide range of industries, including manufacturing.

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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for March 2022

IT Governance

The Ukrainian government and its military were targeted by DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks, while a pro-Ukrainian group attacked the Belarusian railway system with ransomware after discovering that it was being used by Russia to transport tanks and weapons. Beware of remote access takeover scams.

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Kevin Mitnick, Hacker Turned Cybersecurity Leader, Dies at 59

eSecurity Planet

He helped design KnowBe4’s training based on his social engineering tactics, and he became a partial owner of KnowBe4 in November 2011. Mitnick often represented the company at conferences and discussed his experience in KnowBe4 training videos. military systems and launch nuclear missiles through mere whistling.

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MY TAKE: Why companies and consumers must collaborate to stop the plundering of IoT systems

The Last Watchdog

IoT devices help remotely control our household appliances, power plants, smart buildings, factories, airports, shipyards, trucks, trains and military. The breach of a CFO’s home smart speaker Through the course of 2020, IoT-enabled attacks have manifested new wrinkles. And we’re just getting started.

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Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus RAT’ Author

Krebs on Security

Yet the list of features and plugins advertised for this RAT includes functionality that goes significantly beyond what one might see in a traditional remote administration tool, such as DDoS-for-hire capabilities, and the ability to disable the light indicator on webcams so as not to alert the target that the RAT is active. “It

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #13 [Eye Opener] How to Outsmart Sneaky AI-Based Phishing Attacks

KnowBe4

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #13 | March 28th, 2023 [Eye Opener] How to Outsmart Sneaky AI-Based Phishing Attacks Users need to adapt to an evolving threat landscape in which attackers can use AI tools like ChatGPT to craft extremely convincing phishing emails, according to Matthew Tyson at CSO. "A We must ask: 'Is the email expected?

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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

Perimeter security tools include: Firewalls: Filter traffic and monitor access based upon firewall rules and policies for the network, network segment, or assets protected by different types of firewalls. Cloud Security Cloud security provides focused security tools and techniques to protect cloud resources.

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