It’s week three in our Cybersecurity Awareness Month blog series! This week, we interviewed NIST’s Michael Ogata (Computer Scientist) and Paul Watrobski (IT Security Specialist) about the importance of updating software. This week’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month theme is ‘updating software.’ How does your work/specialty area at NIST tie into this behavior? NIST’s Applied Cybersecurity Division’s core mission is to explore, measure, and evaluate both the cybersecurity guidance NIST provides as well as industry best practices. One of our current projects involves putting the practices described

D-Link leading global networking equipment company admitted suffering a data breach. Threat actors gained access to the company`s system after an employee clicked on a phishing link. The company discovered the data breach after the threat actors posted about it on a malicious forum. They immediately started an investigation and took additional security measures to […]

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Progress Software, the owner of the MOVEit file transfer tool, is dealing with dozens of class action lawsuits and investigations from U.S. agencies. This follows a significant security breach in May which led to the theft of a vast amount of data by the Clop ransomware gang. Extent of the Damage The fallout from the […]

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Evolving CISO compensation trends The disparity in earnings between the highest-paid and lowest-paid CISOs is growing, with the most well-compensated security executives seeing a salary growth rate of 3X that of their counterparts in lower market quartiles, according to a recent IANS survey of 600 U.S.-based CISOs. The majority of professionals in the […]

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In today’s digital age, the protection of our identities has assumed a critical role in our daily lives. As we traverse the boundless realms of the internet, our personal information is increasingly at risk. The omnipresent threats of identity theft, fraud, and cybercrime underscore the necessity of understanding identity protection. This comprehensive article aims to […]

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The advent of 5G technology has been hailed as a game-changer, promising faster data speeds, lower latency, and a host of revolutionary applications. However, beneath the excitement and promises, there lurks a shadowy concern: the vulnerability of 5G networks to hacking. As we move further into the digital age, the potential for 5G networks to […]

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The Women Political Leaders (WPL) Summit in Brussels, dedicated to the topics of gender equality and female leadership, became the target of a cyber-espionage campaign orchestrated by ‘Void Rabisu’. This group developed a replica of the official WPL site, leading attendees and those interested in the event to their deceptive platform. The bogus website was […]

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