Predictive cybersecurity company Balbix secures $20M investment
High profile security attacks have put cybersecurity high on the agenda. For most companies it's at best a headache and at worst a full-blown...
Assessment Planning
In this article by Kevin Cardwell the author of the book Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments - Second Edition, discusses the test environment and...
Cross-site Request Forgery
In this article by Y.E Liang, the author of JavaScript Security, we will cover cross-site forgery. This topic is not exactly new. In this...
PureScript npm installer’s infected dependencies prevented it from running successfully
Earlier this month Harry Garrood, a PureScript maintainer found that PureScript’s npm installer is infected by some malicious code. Though the issue is now...
Five Biggest Challenges in Information Security in 2017
Living in the digital age brings its own challenges. News of security breaches in well-known companies is becoming a normal thing. In the battle...
US Department of Homeland security releases an ‘emergency directive’ to combat DNS tampering
Yesterday, the Department of Homeland security issued an emergency directive with the subject, “Mitigate DNS Infrastructure Tampering” and ordering the federal agencies to comply...
Security news bulletin – Wednesday 18 April
Welcome to this week's security news bulletin. This is where you'll find updates from around the web on what's happening in cybersecurity, from technology...
The DPM Feature Set
Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010
A practical step-by-step guide to planning deployment, installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of Data Protection Manager 2010 with this book and...
AT&T employees were bribed over $1 million for assisting hackers to illegally unlock cellphones,...
Yesterday the United States’ Department of Justice (DOJ) stated that Muhammad Fahd, a 34-year-old citizen of Pakistan had bribed the employees from AT&T’s Seattle-area...
“621 U.S. government, schools, and healthcare entities are impacted by ransomware attacks since January’19”,...
A report released by antivirus company Emisoft on October 1 sheds light on the increase in ransomware attacks on government and municipal entities. Per...
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Top 6 Cybersecurity Books from Packt to Accelerate Your Career
With new technology threats, rising international tensions, and state-sponsored cyber-attacks, cybersecurity is more important than ever. In organizations worldwide, there is not only a dire need for cybersecurity...
