Penetration Testing

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Cisco Talos recently identified a sophisticated cyber campaign targeting sensitive information in government and educational sectors across Europe and Asia.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Education and Workforce Development Public Core Resilience Supply Chain Security Measuring Cybersecurity Promoting Operational Collaboration. Lots of detail in the 70-page report.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 7, 2021

A new draft of an Australian educational curriculum proposes teaching children as young as five cybersecurity: The proposed curriculum aims to teach five-year-old children — an age at which Australian kids first attend school — not to share information such as date of birth or full names with strangers, and that they should consult parents (..)

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

For people, patching means education. And not the worker-prep kind of education where you learn how to be an obedient and productive office worker, but the kind that teaches the fundamentals of how things work—from physics to psychology, and from physiology to philosophy. We need to reduce our attack surface for bad ideas.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Louis Post-Dispatch ran a story about how its staff discovered and reported a security vulnerability in a Missouri state education website that exposed the Social Security numbers of 100,000 elementary and secondary teachers. On Wednesday, the St. In a press conference this morning, Missouri Gov. ” Missouri Gov.

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Tech Republic Security

AUGUST 24, 2022

Analyzing over 100 prominent ransomware incidents, Barracuda found the top targeted sectors to be education, municipalities, healthcare, infrastructure and financial. The post How ransomware attacks target specific industries appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Chris Vickery, a California-based data security expert, told The Independent that it appears the department of education was “publishing data that it shouldn’t have been publishing. It was unclear how long the Social Security numbers had been vulnerable. […].

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 2, 2024

Lack of security awareness and education. Often, employees within organizations lack sufficient security awareness and education. Organizations need to invest in cybersecurity training programs to educate their employees about security best practices. Promote security awareness and education among employees.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

has a business unit called Securence , which specializes in providing filtered, secure email services to businesses, educational institutions and government agencies worldwide. The Minnesota-based Internet provider U.S. Internet Corp. But until it was notified last week, U.S. ” U.S. Internet/Securence says your email is secure.

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Joseph Steinberg

JUNE 9, 2022

Hopefully, the impact of the current ransomware attack on a high-ranked district will underscore for parents, voters, and school administrators, the importance of proactively investing in cyber-protecting our education system.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

. “There’s a big gulf between what this technology promises, and what it actually does on the ground,” said Audrey Watters, a researcher on the edtech industry who runs the website Hack Education. “(They) assume everyone looks the same, takes tests the same way, and responds to stressful situations in the same way.”

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 26, 2022

We must collaborate across the industry and education providers to bring people into our field whether that be a certification and hands-on skill training online, an internal reskilling program to fill gaps with existing talent or pushing from more short-course security programs from higher education.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2022

Arguably, one of the most critical changes needed will be to adapt hiring practices to help candidates without a traditional college education enter into these critical roles. About the essayist: Jack Koziol is the founder, SVP and GM of Infosec Institute , a cybersecurity education company.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I know this is a minor thing in the universe of problems with secondary education and grading, but I found the hack interesting. But if doing zero work results in a 50% grade, then they only have to do a little bit of work to get over the pass line. And this is exactly the sort of thing I explore in my latest book: A Hacker’s Mind.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 15, 2020

SolarWinds’ comprehensive products and services are used by more than 300,000 customers worldwide, including military, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and education institutions.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 27, 2024

Stefán Jökull Sigurðarson is no stranger to HIBP, and we're super excited to have him onboard permanently)

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Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 25, 2024

The Australian government’s rollout of passkeys for its digital service portal myGov will build momentum for wider adoption; though, challenges like user education and tech fragmentation remain.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

Our vision is for this work to be broadly useful to the computer security community, including to researchers as they embark on (or choose not to embark on), conduct, and write about their research, to program committees as they evaluate submissions, and to educators as they teach about computer security and ethics.

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Adam Levin

JUNE 4, 2021

Practice the 3Ms: Minimize your risk of exposure: Don’t take unnecessary risks and invest in cyber defenses and education. Takeaways: While security products are an essential tool for protecting against cyberattacks, nothing is 100% foolproof. We are in the midst of an ongoing ransomware epidemic.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 10, 2022

Even deepfake examples designed to educate the public — like a doctored video of Nixon’s resignation speech — fool observers without meaning to. The Nixon example was an attempt to educate the public through exposure. Educate employees and partners about deepfakes using the same techniques as general cybersecurity awareness.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2022

police and government email accounts, including a police department in India; a government ministry of the United Arab Emirates; the Brazilian Secretariat of Education; and Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Education. All of the access Bug is currently offering was allegedly stolen from non-U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

Pittsburgh, PA – July 13, 2023 – Security Journey, a best-in-class application security education company, has today announced an acceleration of its secure coding training platform enhancements. For more details about all the new Security Journey features, please read more here. Learn more and try our training at www.securityjourney.com.?

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Penetration Testing

APRIL 30, 2024

The Damne Vulnerable Android Components – DVAC Damn Vulnerable Android Components (DVAC) is an educational Android application intentionally designed to expose and demonstrate vulnerabilities related to various Android components such as Activities, Intents, Content... The post DVAC: An intentionally vulnerable Android Application (..)

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Joseph Steinberg

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Join Bonnie Stith, former Director of the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence , and and Joseph Steinberg, renowned cybersecurity expert witness and columnist , for a special, free educational webinar, Best Practices for Asset Risk Management in Hospitals.

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The Hacker News

MAY 22, 2024

Russian cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies said it identified over 30 victims spanning government agencies, banks, IT companies, and educational institutions. An unknown threat actor is exploiting known security flaws in Microsoft Exchange Server to deploy a keylogger malware in attacks targeting entities in Africa and the Middle East.

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The Hacker News

JUNE 11, 2024

The adversary, according to Infoblox security researchers Dr. Renée Burton and Dave Mitchell, operates from the China Education and Research Network (CERNET), a project funded by the Chinese government.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 22, 2024

22, 2024, CyberNewsWire — INE Security , a global cybersecurity training and certification provider, recently launched initiatives with several higher education institutions in an ongoing campaign to invest in the education of aspiring cybersecurity professionals. Cary, NC, Aug.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

Educate your employees on threats and risks such as phishing and malware. Enforce strong passwords and implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) — by educating users about using a unique password for each account and enforcing higher security for privileged accounts (administrators, root).

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Krebs on Security

MAY 14, 2021

Affiliates also will be required to get approval before infecting victims. The new restrictions came as some Russian cybercrime forums began distancing themselves from ransomware operations altogether.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

INE Security , a leading provider of cybersecurity training and certifications, today shared its cybersecurity training for cyber hygiene practices for small businesses, underscoring the critical role of continuous education in safeguarding digital assets.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 20, 2023

customer records appear in a breach (and ignored every single attempt made to disclose it 🤷‍♂️) We now have a model for education facilities, non-profits and charities (for now, it boils down to "log a ticket and we'll help you out")

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The Hacker News

MAY 29, 2024

A never-before-seen North Korean threat actor codenamed Moonstone Sleet has been attributed as behind cyber attacks targeting individuals and organizations in the software and information technology, education, and defense industrial base sectors with ransomware and bespoke malware previously associated with the infamous Lazarus Group.

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The Hacker News

MAY 27, 2024

But despite sincere efforts by security stakeholders to mitigate them - through email protection, firewall rules and employee education - phishing attacks are still a very risky attack vector. The transition to the cloud, poor password hygiene and the evolution in webpage technologies have all enabled the rise in phishing attacks.

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The Hacker News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

A Vietnamese-speaking threat actor has been linked to an information-stealing campaign targeting government and education entities in Europe and Asia with a new Python-based malware called PXA Stealer.

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The Hacker News

JUNE 3, 2024

The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Andariel has been observed using a new Golang-based backdoor called Dora RAT in its attacks targeting educational institutes, manufacturing firms, and construction businesses in South Korea.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2024

Educate and protect users and investors To effectively counter cybercrime, it is essential to understand the nature and techniques used by criminals. Prevention comes through educating users and taking robust security measures to protect their digital assets. Education improves awareness” is his slogan.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 14, 2022

Enterprise cybersecurity traditionally prevents such attacks in two ways: staff education, giving employees the tools they need to recognize and report suspicious emails that land in their inboxes; along with cybersecurity solutions , which prevent malicious emails from reaching inboxes in the first place. Current solutions.

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