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Security Training: Moving on from Nick Burns Through Better Communication
Twenty years ago, Saturday Night Live nailed a tendency in IT to be overly absorbed in tech-speak and to do a poor job of educating users. The Nick Burns: Your Company Computer Guy skits showed rude ...
Cybersecurity Training and Tech Aren’t Enough; ‘Culture Change’ Needed
Companies spend a staggering amount of money on cybersecurity products to defend their networks and data from hackers, but a couple of industry pros say that money is wasted if companies don't change...
Exfiltration Can Be Stopped With Data-in-Use Encryption, Company Says
Even the most advanced and sophisticated security tools are failing to protect against ransomware and data exfiltration, according to a new report from data encryption vendor Titaniam.
The St...
How One Company Survived a Ransomware Attack Without Paying the Ransom
The first signs of the ransomware attack at data storage vendor Spectra Logic were reports from a number of IT staffers about little things going wrong at the beginning of the day. Matters steadily w...
New Quantum-safe Cryptography Standards Arrive None Too Soon
A six-year quantum cryptography competition just ended, producing four new security standards selected by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology.
The anno...
Linux Hacking is Easy with PwnKit
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added PwnKit as a high-severity Linux vulnerability to its list of actively exploited bugs.
Recorded as CVE-2021-4034, with a C...
Hyperautomation and the Future of Cybersecurity
Next-gen AI systems are now baked into just about every category of software—but Gartner believes we can automate even further. For the last few years, Gartner has predicted that hyperautomation woul...
Microsoft 365 Research Highlights Cloud Vulnerabilities
In a sequence that suggests cloud services may be more vulnerable than many think, Proofpoint researchers have demonstrated how hackers could take over Microsoft 365 accounts to ransom files stored o...
Zero Trust: Hype vs. Reality
Just as the development of cannons and other weapons made walls obsolete as a form of defense, sophisticated cyber attacks have made the firewall-perimeter model of cybersecurity equally obsolete.
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What is a Cyberattack? Types and Defenses
A cyberattack is any action taken by a cyber criminal in an attempt to illegally gain control of a computer, device, network, or system with malicious intent. Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, st...
