When a data breach occurs, companies will usually haul in third-party investigators, notify regulators, promise to do better and give any impacted consumers free credit monitoring — but we’ve reached a stage where you should consider signing up to such services anyway, given how much of our information is now available in data dumps strewn all over the internet.
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The Top Cybersecurity Threats of 2020
Insider attacks, vulnerable IoT, damaging ransomware — here’s what organizations need to be vigilant about this year.
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UWF announces global cyber security workforce development partnership
According to a recent release, The University of West Florida and the Jikei College Group in Japan announced a partnership to enhance the global cybersecurity workforce development. The new agreement will promote educational collaboration in cybersecurity which is aimed to strengthen workforce development in the growing cybersecurity industry.
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How Agencies Can Use Open Source Intelligence to Close Cybersecurity Loopholes
OSINT efforts got a big boost with the rise of the internet and then another huge one when social media went mainstream. Skilled intelligence agents no longer have to always cultivate sources in rival governments or perform dangerous operations in unfriendly territory. Instead, they can sometimes get just as valuable information by connecting the dots and linking several publicly available information snippets into a much larger picture. It’s still a lot of work, but mostly conducted from the safety of a computer terminal sitting at their office.
17 Cybersecurity Tools that Work Better Together
Cybersecurity spending grows each year — it reached $114 billion in 2018 and is forecasted to hit $170 billion by 2022 — but “losses due to data exfiltration, stolen IP, and ransomware are accelerating,” Steve Nicol, vice president of sales and marketing for Cigent, told Built In.
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The Changing Face of Cyber Security
Cyber security is constantly evolving as security experts and their adversaries develop and adapt new techniques to their trade. Researchers, companies and professionals from the security community discussed emerging trends in the field during the 8th semiannual UC Cyber Security Summit, hosted by UC Santa Barbara.
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Emerging trends in cyber security
Cyber attacks are among the fastest growing crimes in the US, and they are increasing in cost to businesses. The threat is only going to grow as cyber criminals become smarter and more sophisticated with each passing year.
In the last 10 months, 140 local governments, police stations and hospitals have been held hostage by ransomware attacks
The attack starts, innocently enough, with an email. But when someone clicks the link inside, hackers quickly take over. Computers at the school, hospital, or city government are locked, and the only way for employees to get back in is to pay the attacker hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Bitcoin. Even then, there’s no guarantee they won’t do it again.
Cybersecurity experts warn that these 7 emerging technologies could put your online security at risk
With three months left in the year, 2019 has already seen an exceptional number of major cybersecurity incidents. An avalanche of hacks, breaches, and data exposures have rattled government agencies and private companies alike, and the victims are typically consumers or citizens.
Cybersecurity giant Comodo can’t even keep its own website secure
According to the disclosure, Comodo said the hackers stole usernames, names and email addresses, as well as the user’s last IP address used to access the forum. Some social media handles were also stolen in the breach.
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