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GUEST ESSAY: ‘Cybersecurity specialist’ tops list of work-from-home IT jobs that need filling

The Last Watchdog

One of the hottest fields right now on the WFH radar is the information technology (IT) sector. Fortunately, there are online classes you can take to get that knowledge – and best of all, you can take them for free. A wide range of companies, in just about every field, are adding computer security specialists.

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How to Tell if Active Directory is Compromised

eSecurity Planet

Active Directory is one of the most critically important IT assets and a frequent target of hackers, so securing it is a top priority for IT and security teams. Here we’ll look at how to check several critical Active Directory components for signs of compromise, important steps to add to your Active Directory security best practices.

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GUEST ESSAY: A primer on content management systems (CMS) — and how to secure them

The Last Watchdog

For instance, the The Last Watchdog article you are reading uses a CMS to store posts, display them in an attractive manner, and provide search capabilities. A big concern on Wikipedia is vandalism. You also don’t want unscrupulous individuals to download your content in bulk or re-host it on their own websites without permission.

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DORA: 1 year to go! Key recommendations for Financial Services to improve cybersecurity and resilience in multi-clouds

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Like many, financial entities are adopting cloud computing technologies, in particular to improve the resilience of network and information systems supporting their financial services. As set out in its Article 2, DORA applies to the entire financial services sector. DORA: 1 year to go! What is the scope of DORA?

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The Rise of Large-Language-Model Optimization

Schneier on Security

But all of this is coming to an end. Publishers work as gatekeepers, filtering candidates and then amplifying the chosen ones. This article might be written very differently in an academic publication, for example, and publishing it here entailed pitching an editor, revising multiple drafts for style and focus, and so on.

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News Alert: HostingAdvice poll finds one in three Americans hacked upon visiting sketchy websites

The Last Watchdog

A new study by HostingAdvice, the premier authority on web hosting, found that 32% of Americans say they’ve gotten hacked from visiting a sketchy website and of those, 53% got a computer virus. But not when considering that there are more than a billion websites live on the web, with more than 250,000 new web sites created every day.

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SHARED INTEL: A foolproof consumer’s guide to creating and managing bulletproof passwords

The Last Watchdog

From there, it’s easy to reset the pass code for almost all of your accounts when the bad guy controls your email too. From there, it’s easy to reset the pass code for almost all of your accounts when the bad guy controls your email too. All it takes is a cracker to find this password, and now every account you have is compromised.

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