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Hacked Data Broker Accounts Fueled Phony COVID Loans, Unemployment Claims

Krebs on Security

A group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on people and businesses they were impersonating by leveraging several compromised accounts at a little-known U.S.

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Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks

Krebs on Security

Nikita Kislitsin , formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Prosecutors in Northern California indicted Kislitsin in 2014 for his alleged role in stealing account data from Formspring.

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Five Cybersecurity Trends that Will Affect Organizations in 2023

CyberSecurity Insiders

Netwrix, a cybersecurity vendor that makes data security easy, today released key IT security trends that will affect organizations of all sizes in 2023. To address this threat, organizations of all sizes while conducting a risk assessment need to take into account the vulnerabilities of all third-party software or firmware.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Achieving funding is no simple task, and cybersecurity entrepreneurs have a difficult path competing in a complex and competitive landscape. Luckily for cybersecurity startups, there’s no shortage of interest in tomorrow’s next big security vendors. Investments in cybersecurity more than doubled from $12 billion to $29.5

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Ransomware news headlines trending on Google

CyberSecurity Insiders

But came to the discovery of the staff when some senior graduates of Sapir College received text messages that their digital accounts were hacked. The post Ransomware news headlines trending on Google appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders. The incident took place on Thursday last week.

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The Risk-Conscious, Security-Aware Culture: The Forgotten Critical Security Control

Cisco Security

Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) across the Global 2000 and Fortune 1000 are obsessed with protecting the workforce endpoints as critical vulnerabilities in the cybersecurity and risk management posture of their enterprises. Cybersecurity and risk management in today’s computing enterprise is not a spectator sport.

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‘Every day is game day:’ Sports psychology expert applies his skills to cybersecurity

SC Magazine

One could say the same for cybersecurity – only the stakes are higher. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that the same psychological stressors that can send an elite ballplayer into a funk can also negatively impact cybersecurity professionals. said Murphy. “In Derin McMains as peak performance coordinator for the Seattle Mariners.