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Spotlight Podcast: CSO Chris Walcutt on Managing 3rd Party OT Risk

The Security Ledger

In this Spotlight Podcast, host Paul Roberts talks with Chris Walcutt, the CSO of DirectDefense about the rising cyber threats facing operational technology (OT) and how organizations that manage OT - including critical infrastructure owners can best manage increased cyber risks to OT environments. For Hacking. Read the whole entry. »

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8 top penetration testing certifications employers value

CSO Magazine

Penetration testing, sometimes called ethical hacking or red team hacking, is an exciting career path in which you simulate cyberattacks on target systems in order to test (and, ultimately, improve) their security.

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Jeff Moss on the Evolution of Hacking at SecTor 2021

ForAllSecure

Jeff Moss, ICANN CSO and founder of DEF CON/Black Hat, gave the keynote speech at SecTor 2021 in Toronto, Ontario. His talk was nostalgic, reflecting on the 40+ years of computer hacking. Moss also said that all hacking is not infosec and that all infosec is not hacking. But hacking, not so much.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Calls for Stamping Out Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities, as Europol Tells Banks To Prep For Quantum Threat

Security Boulevard

Cybersecurity News) How to mitigate buffer overflow vulnerabilities (Infosec Institute) How to prevent buffer overflow attacks (TechTarget) VIDEOS What is a Buffer Overflow Attack? Financially motivated cyber intrusions, even those without any ties to state goals, harm national security.

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The Hacker Mind: Shattering InfoSec's Glass Ceiling

ForAllSecure

Booth babes and rampant sexism were more of a problem in infosec in the past. She’s an amazing person who has done an amazing number of things in a short amount of time -- CMU professor, Forrester analyst, CSO at a successful startup -- and she’s not done changing the industry. That is, until Chenxi Wang spoke up.

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The Rise of an Overlooked Crime – Cyberstalking

Security Affairs

These evils include hacking, identity theft, online surveillance, and cyberstalking. We all know the dangers associated with hacking, identity theft, and internet surveillance, thanks to Facebook and other social networking platforms. Similarly, these hackers can hack your devices too.

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Uber Breach Guilty Verdict, Mandatory Password Expiration, Fake Executive Profiles on LinkedIn

Security Boulevard

Former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan was found guilty of obstructing a federal investigation in connection with the attempted cover-up of a 2016 hack at Uber, NIST and Microsoft say that mandatory password expiration is no longer needed but many organizations are still doing it, and how fake executive profiles are becoming a huge problem for […].