ThermoSecure: Cracking Passwords Using Finger Heat on Keyboards is Now Possible
A group of researchers have guessed 100% of six-character passwords using this attack
Cyber NewsResearchers Detail Malicious Tools Used by Cyberespionage Group Earth Aughisky
A new piece of research has detailed the increasingly sophisticated nature of the malware toolset employed by an advanced persistent threat (APT) group named Earth Aughisky. “Over the last decade, the group has continued to make adjustments in the tools and malware deployments on specific targets located in Taiwan and, more recently, Japan,” Trend Micro disclosed in […]
Cyber NewsFacebook Login Details at Risk as Meta Identifies Over 400 Malicious Apps
Some of the malicious apps are able to evade detection and continue to make it onto legitimate app stores
Cyber NewsEndpoint Detection and Response – you need it on mobile devices too
This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Welcome to the final episode in our blog series focused on Mobile Endpoint Security. The first two episodes detailed the protections necessary to secure data accessed by remote workers (Endpoint security and remote work) and best practices for combating the threat of ransomware 5 ways to […]
Cyber NewsGerman Cybersecurity Chief Faces Sacking Over Possible Russia Ties
Schoenbohm accused of having maintained contacts with people involved with Russian security services
Cyber NewsComplex Impersonation Story
This is a story of one piece of what is probably a complex employment scam. Basically, real programmers are having their resumes copied and co-opted by scammers, who apply for jobs (or, I suppose, get recruited from various job sites), then hire other people with Western looks and language skills are to impersonate those first […]
Cyber NewsCybersecurity Re-Launchers: Pivoting into Cybersecurity as a Mid-Career Professional
It is never too late to start a career in cybersecurity — this may sound cliché, but it holds a lot of truth. If you are passionate about the topic and are ready to put in the work to acquire the skills and knowledge needed, anyone, regardless of educational background, can break into cybersecurity. At […]
Cyber NewsWhen It Comes to M&A, Security Is a Journey
Shiva Persaud is the director of security engineering for Cisco. His team is responsible for the Cisco Secure Development Lifecycle (CSDL), a set of practices based on a “secure-by-design” philosophy developed to ensure that security and compliance are top-of-mind in every step of a solution’s lifecycle. This blog is the third in a series focused […]
Cyber NewsDeveloper Virtual Machines as Bastion Hosts
ACM.76 Why you might want to move development to cloud VMs This is a continuation of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. I’ve been logging into a VM on AWS to deploy CloudFormation scripts up to this point in this series. I am using a host I previously deployed in an automated fashion from another project, […]
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