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SANS, Google launch academy to promote cloud security, diversity in workforce
PRIVACY PRIVACY SANS Institute has launched the SANS Cloud Diversity Academy (SCDA) in partnership with Google, to help provide training and certifications to women, ethnic minorities, Indigenous people and other groups that are currently underrepresented in the cybersecurity sector. A 2022 report by Cybersecurity Ventures found that women make up only 25% of the cybersecurity…
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Hard-coded secrets up 67% as secrets sprawl threatens software supply chain
PRIVACY PRIVACY The number of detected hard-coded secrets increased by 67% last year compared to 2021, with 10 million new secrets discovered in public GitHub commits in 2022. That’s according to GitGuardian’s State of Secrets Sprawl 2023 report. It found that hard-coded secrets and accelerating secrets sprawl (storing secrets in many different places) are threatening…
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BlackLotus Malware Hijacks Windows Secure Boot Process
PRIVACY PRIVACY Researchers have discovered malware that “can hijack a computer’s boot process even when Secure Boot and other advanced protections are enabled and running on fully updated versions of Windows.” Dubbed BlackLotus, the malware is what’s known as a UEFI bootkit. These sophisticated pieces of malware target the UEFI—short for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface—the…
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Guiding publications for US strategy on Quantum Information Science (QIS)
PRIVACY PRIVACY In 1999, the United States began to shape its QIS strategy. The first document on file is a Scientific and Technical Report (STR) entitled: “Quantum Information Science. An Emerging Field of Interdisciplinary Research and Education in Science and Engineering.” This is the first report of an assortment of publications that help establish the…
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Officials Targeted with Romance Scams and Android Trojans
PRIVACY PRIVACY Activity linked to Pakistani state group APT36 Read More
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Government Claims New UK GDPR Will Save Firms Billions
PRIVACY PRIVACY Data Protection and Digital Information Bill designed to reduce paperwork Read More
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How CISOs can do more with less in turbulent economic times
PRIVACY PRIVACY CISO Nicole Darden Ford has become accustomed to doing more with less since the COVID-19 pandemic suddenly upended her company’s workforce. “I got off a plane from India and saw all these people with masks at the airport in Washington, DC, and I wondered what was going on. I went straight to the…
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Cyber-Threat Detections Surge 55% in 2022
PRIVACY PRIVACY Trend Micro stops a record 146 billion discrete threats Read More
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Sued by Meta, Freenom Halts Domain Registrations
PRIVACY PRIVACY The domain name registrar Freenom, whose free domain names have long been a draw for spammers and phishers, has stopped allowing new domain name registrations. The move comes just days after the Dutch registrar was sued by Meta, which alleges the company ignores abuse complaints about phishing websites while monetizing traffic to those…
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Sharp Panda Target Southeast Asia in Espionage Campaign Expansion
PRIVACY PRIVACY New campaign leverages a new version of the SoulSearcher loader and the Soul modular framework Read More