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GUEST ESSAY: A Memorial Day call to upskill more veterans for in-demand cybersecurity roles

The Last Watchdog

It’s no secret that cybersecurity roles are in high demand. Today there are more than 500,000 open cybersecurity roles in the U.S., leaving organizations vulnerable to cyber threats. Related: Deploying employees as threat sensors. Meanwhile, 200,000 well-trained and technically skilled military service members are discharged each year. These individuals have many transferable skills that would make cybersecurity a prosperous civilian career.

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Ukraine Observed Nearly 14M Cyber Incidents in Q1 2022

Data Breach Today

The Majority of Incidents Entailed Malware Distribution, Phishing and Intrusion Attempts Three months after Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine began, the country takes a look back at the turbulence the nation has faced in its cyber sphere during Q1 2022, and considers the way ahead.

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6 Steps to Ensure Cyber Resilience

Dark Reading

To minimize the impact of cyber incidents, organizations must be pragmatic and develop a strategy of resilience for dealing with break-ins, advanced malware, and data theft.

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Experts warn of ransomware attacks against government organizations of small states

Security Affairs

Cyber Research Labs reported a rise in ransomware attacks in the second quarter of 2022, small states are more exposed to these attacks. Cyber Research Labs observed a rise in ransomware attacks in the second quarter of 2022, some of them with a severe impact on the victims, such as the attack that hit the Costa Rican government that caused a nationwide crisis.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Costa Rica May Be Pawn in Conti Ransomware Group’s Bid to Rebrand, Evade Sanctions

Krebs on Security

Costa Rica’s national health service was hacked sometime earlier this morning by a Russian ransomware group known as Hive. The intrusion comes just weeks after Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves declared a state of emergency in response to a data ransom attack from a different Russian ransomware gang — Conti. Ransomware experts say there is good reason to believe the same cybercriminals are behind both attacks, and that Hive has been helping Conti rebrand and evade international sa

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RSAC insights: Malware is now spreading via weaponized files circulating in data lakes, file shares

The Last Watchdog

The zero trust approach to enterprise security is well on its way to mainstream adoption. This is a very good thing. Related: Covid 19 ruses used in email attacks. At RSA Conference 2022 , which takes place next week in San Francisco, advanced technologies to help companies implement zero trust principals will be in the spotlight. Lots of innovation has come down the pike with respect to imbuing zero trust into two pillars of security operations: connectivity and authentication.

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Alert! Unpatched critical Atlassian Confluence Zero-Day RCE flaw actively exploited

Security Affairs

Atlassian warned of an actively exploited critical unpatched remote code execution flaw (CVE-2022-26134) in Confluence Server and Data Center products. Atlassian is warning of a critical unpatched remote code execution vulnerability affecting all Confluence Server and Data Center supported versions, tracked as CVE-2022-26134, that is being actively exploited in attacks in the wild. “Atlassian has been made aware of current active exploitation of a critical severity unauthenticated remote c

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What Counts as “Good Faith Security Research?”

Krebs on Security

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently revised its policy on charging violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a 1986 law that remains the primary statute by which federal prosecutors pursue cybercrime cases. The new guidelines state that prosecutors should avoid charging security researchers who operate in “good faith” when finding and reporting vulnerabilities.

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FBI: Hospital Averted 'Despicable' Iranian Cyberattack

Data Breach Today

FBI Director Says Boston Children's Hospital Was Targeted Last Summer Boston Children's Hospital thwarted a cyberattack by government-backed Iranian hackers last summer after U.S. authorities received intelligence about the pending assault and alerted the hospital, says FBI Director Christopher Wray, who called Iran's planned cyberattack "despicable.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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RSAC insights: How ‘TPRM’ can help shrink security skills gap — while protecting supply chains

The Last Watchdog

Third-Party Risk Management ( TPRM ) has been around since the mid-1990s – and has become something of an auditing nightmare. Related: A call to share risk assessments. Big banks and insurance companies instilled the practice of requesting their third-party vendors to fill out increasingly bloated questionnaires, called bespoke assessments, which they then used as their sole basis for assessing third-party risk.

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Multiple Microsoft Office versions impacted by an actively exploited zero-day

Security Affairs

A zero-day flaw in Microsoft Office that could be exploited by attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution on Windows systems. The cybersecurity researcher nao_sec discovered a malicious Word document (“05-2022-0438.doc”) that was uploaded to VirusTotal from Belarus. The document uses the remote template feature to fetch an HTML and then uses the “ms-msdt” scheme to execute PowerShell code.

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Good Luck Not Accidentally Hiring a North Korean Scammer

WIRED Threat Level

DPRK hackers are tricking their way into jobs with western firms. A US government alert reminds employers they're on the front lines—and potentially on the hook.

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Scammers Send Fake Ukraine Aid Requests to Phish Victims

Data Breach Today

Criminals Seek Cryptocurrency and Other Monetary Donations , FBI Says The FBI says in an alert that scammers have been posing as Ukrainian entities to fraudulently seek donations and other financial assistance for the war-torn country. The agency says scammers in the past have also used crises as opportunities to cash in with fraudulent donation schemes.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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RSAC insights: Concentric AI directs Google’s search techniques towards locking down data sprawl

The Last Watchdog

In order to extract value from the Internet, data sprawl first must get reined in. This has always been the case. Related: Equipping SOCs for the long haul. What good is connecting applications, servers and networks across the public cloud if you’re unable to securely operationalize the datasets that these interconnected systems store and access? Solving data sprawl has now become a focal point of cybersecurity.

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A new WhatsApp OTP scam could allow the hijacking of users’ accounts

Security Affairs

Experts warn of a new ongoing WhatsApp OTP scam that could allow attackers to hijack users’ accounts through phone calls. Recently CloudSEK founder Rahul Sasi warned of an ongoing WhatsApp OTP scam that could allow threat actors to hijack users’ accounts through phone calls. The fraudulent scheme is simple, threat actors make a phone call to the victims to trick them into making a call at a phone number starting either with 405 or 67.

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Good Luck Not Accidentally Hiring a North Korean Scammer

WIRED Threat Level

DPRK hackers are tricking their way into jobs with Western firms. A US government alert reminds employers they're on the front lines—and potentially on the hook.

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Microsoft Office: Attackers Injecting Code via Zero-Day Bug

Data Breach Today

Malicious Code Execution Traced to Weaponized Office Documents Dating From April Attention to anyone who manages a Microsoft Windows environment: Security researchers are tracking a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Office that's being actively exploited by attackers to run malicious code on a vulnerable system.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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RSAC insights: Why vulnerability management absolutely must shift to a risk-assessment approach

The Last Watchdog

Vulnerability management, or VM, has long been an essential, if decidedly mundane, component of network security. Related: Log4J’s long-run risks. That’s changing — dramatically. Advanced VM tools and practices are rapidly emerging to help companies mitigate a sprawling array of security flaws spinning out of digital transformation. I visited with Scott Kuffer, co-founder and chief operating officer of Sarasota, FL-based Nucleus Security , which is in the thick of this development.

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GitHub: Nearly 100,000 NPM Users’ credentials stolen in the April OAuth token attack

Security Affairs

GitHub provided additional details into the theft of its integration OAuth tokens that occurred in April, with nearly 100,000 NPM users’ credentials. GitHub provided additional details about the incident that suffered in April, the attackers were able to steal nearly 100K NPM users’ credentials. In April, GitHub uncovered threat actors using stolen OAuth user tokens to gain access to their repositories and download private data from several organizations.

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DuckDuckGo Isn’t as Private as You Think

WIRED Threat Level

Plus: A $150 million Twitter fine, a massive leak from a Chinese prison in Xinjiang, and an ISIS plot to assassinate George W. Bush.

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Breach At Turkey’s Pegasus Airlines Exposes 6.5 TB of Data

Data Breach Today

Misconfigured AWS S3 Bucket, Which Led to the Breach, Has Now Been Secured A data breach at Turkish firm Pegasus Airlines has put more than 6.5 TB of sensitive electronic flight bag data at risk, including sensitive flight details, source code and staff data, say researchers. A misconfigured AWS S3 bucket, which led to the incident, has now been secured.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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RSAC insights: ‘SaaS security posture management’ — SSPM — has emerged as a networking must-have

The Last Watchdog

Companies have come to depend on Software as a Service – SaaS — like never before. Related: Managed security services catch on. From Office 365 to Zoom to Salesforce.com, cloud-hosted software applications have come to make up the nerve center of daily business activity. Companies now reach for SaaS apps for clerical chores, conferencing, customer relationship management, human resources, salesforce automation, supply chain management, web content creation and much more, even security.

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EnemyBot malware adds new exploits to target CMS servers and Android devices

Security Affairs

The operators of the EnemyBot botnet added exploits for recently disclosed flaws in VMware, F5 BIG-IP, and Android systems. Operators behind the EnemyBot botnet are expanding the list of potential targets adding exploits for recently disclosed critical vulnerabilities in from VMware, F5 BIG-IP, and Android. The botnet was first discovered by Fortinet in March, the DDoS botnet targeted several routers and web servers by exploiting known vulnerabilities.

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DuckDuckGo Isn’t as Private as You Think

WIRED Threat Level

Plus: A $150 million Twitter fine, a massive leak from a Chinese prison in Xinjiang, and an ISIS plot to assassinate George W. Bush.

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Carinthia, Austria Approves Ransomware Recovery Plans

Data Breach Today

500,000 Euros Budgeted to Restore Affected Systems, Boost Cybersecurity In the aftermath of the BlackCat ransomware attack on May 24, 2022, that "severely affected" government services in Carinthia, the Austrian state has budgeted 500,000 euros to restore services and boost its cybersecurity and reinstated its passport issuance system, which was affected by the attack.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Act Enters into Force

Hunton Privacy

On June 1, 2022, Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Act (“PDPA”) entered into force after three years of delays. The PDPA, originally enacted in May 2019, provides for a one-year grace period, with the main operative provisions of the law originally set to come into force in 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however, the Thai government issued royal decrees to extend the compliance deadline to June 1, 2022. .

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Pro-Russian hacker group KillNet plans to attack Italy on May 30

Security Affairs

Pro-Russian hacker group KillNet is threatening again Italy, it announced a massive and unprecedented attack on May 30. Pro-Russian hacker group KillNet is threatening again Italy, it announced a massive and unprecedented attack on May 30. Pro-Russian ‘hacktivist’ group Killnet is one of the most active non-state actors operating since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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You Need to Update iOS, Chrome, Windows, and Zoom ASAP

WIRED Threat Level

Plus: Google patches 36 Android vulnerabilities, Cisco fixes three high-severity issues, and VMWare closes two “serious” flaws.

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