The ‘Great Resignation’ Caused Insider Threats to Peak in Q3 2022, Kroll Finds
Kroll’s Q3 2022 Threat Landscape report showed an unprecedented increase in insider threats
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- November 10, 2022
Warning: New Massive Malicious Campaigns Targeting Top Indian Banks’ Customers
Cybersecurity researchers are warning of “massive phishing campaigns” that distribute five different malware targeting banking users in India. “The bank customers targeted include account subscribers of seven banks, including some of the most well-known banks located in the country and potentially affecting millions of customers,” Trend Micro said in a report published this week. Some of the
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsMajority of Security Managers Lack Threat Intelligence Skills
The report suggests threat intelligence is a crucial source for vulnerability detection
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- November 10, 2022
Is Cybersecurity Awareness Month Anything More Than PR?
Cybersecurity Awareness Month has been going on since 2004. This year, Cybersecurity Awareness Month urged the public, professionals, and industry partners to “see themselves in cyber” in the following ways: The public, by taking action to stay safe online. Professionals, by joining the cyber workforce. Cyber industry partners, as part of the cybersecurity solution. CISA outlined four […]
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- November 10, 2022
Researchers Uncover PyPI Package Hiding Malicious Code Behind Image File
A malicious package discovered on the Python Package Index (PyPI) has been found employing a steganographic trick to conceal malicious code within image files. The package in question, named “apicolor,” was uploaded to the Python third-party repository on October 31, 2022, and described as a “Core lib for REST API,” according to Israeli cybersecurity firm Check […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends#IRISSCON: Cyber Professionals Now Tasked with Securing Society, Says Mikko Hyppönen
Mikko Hyppönen discusses how cyber-threats will become even more dangerous as reliance on connectivity grows
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- November 10, 2022
Creating a Role for an EC2 Instance with CloudFormation
ACM.107 Using an IAM Role Profile with an EC2 Instance for short-term rotating credentials This is a continuation of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. In the last post we created a VPC endpoint for CloudFormation so we can access the AWS service from a private network. The post also showed you when you might […]
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- November 10, 2022
PCI DSS 4.0 is coming: how to prepare for the looming changes to credit card payment rules
For enterprises that handle credit card data, which means just about every consumer-facing company, payment processing is a mission-critical system that requires the highest levels of security. The volume of transactions conducted with general purpose credit cards (American Express, Discover, Mastercard, Visa, UnionPay in China, and JCB in Japan) totaled $581 billion in 2021, up […]
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- November 10, 2022
REPEAT AND REFINE: HOW DO YOU GET TO CARNEGIE HALL? (Pt. 6 of “Why Don’t You Go Dox Yourself?”)
Welcome back! In our last article, you cleared out your extraneous digital footprints by removing unnecessary accounts and opting-out of data broker services, and have finished a dedicated review of your online history. In this final section, we will answer the natural question encountered at the end of any journey: What’s next? Before becoming the […]
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