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Ghost Ransomware a Persistent Global Threat to Critical Infrastructure

SecureWorld News

Experts warn that organizations must act decisively to protect against this growing threat by implementing Zero Trust architectures, patching vulnerabilities, and strengthening identity security. Cybersecurity awareness and incident response Train employees to recognize phishing attempts and social engineering.

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RockYou2024: The Largest Password Compilation (10 Billion) Ever Leaked

SecureWorld News

The name "RockYou2024" pays homage to the infamous RockYou data breach of 2009, which exposed 32 million passwords due to insecure storage practices. It's crucial to keep users educated and bring in AI-powered security solutions that can spot and block tricky social engineering attempts coming from multiple message channels.

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Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future

eSecurity Planet

Phishing and social engineering are common ways threat actors can obtain a symmetric key, but cryptanalysis and brute force attempts can also break symmetric key ciphers. However, it wasn’t until 2009 that a graduate student published research on fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) and set off an exploration period.

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Meet the 2021 SC Awards judges

SC Magazine

His expertise is in social engineering, technology, security algorithms and business. David Poe is the vice president of data architecture and shared solutions for United Way Worldwide. Daniel Lieber is the president of Innovative Ideas Unlimited, with 25 years of experience in advanced computing security.

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Happy 10th anniversary & Kali's story.so far

Kali Linux

In February 2009, at Shmoocon, BackTrack 4 “Beta” was released using Ubuntu. A graphical one happened in BackTrack 4 “Pre-Final” in June 2009. ARM - multi architecture Since BackTrack 4, the option was there for ARM support. It allowed for package updates to easily be applied to people systems.

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