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GUEST ESSAY: A Memorial Day call to upskill more veterans for in-demand cybersecurity roles

The Last Watchdog

Meanwhile, 200,000 well-trained and technically skilled military service members are discharged each year. Yet, there’s still work to be done to make this path more accessible and known among the veteran and transitioning military community. This experience can also be helpful when training cybersecurity talent.

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News alert: MxD roundtable with White House officials highlights cybersecurity workforce needs

The Last Watchdog

Also in attendance were Access Living, The College of Lake County, CyberSkills2Work, and Task Force Movement. Each participating organization is committed to developing cyber skills and programs to train the workforce across a wide range of industries, including manufacturing. Funding for this program is in part from a Federal grant.

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US Govt kicked off ‘Hack the Army 3.0’ bug bounty program

Security Affairs

government is going to launch the ‘Hack the Army 3.0’ government launched Hack the Army 3.0, US army asked participants to test more than 60 publicly accessible web assets, including *.army.mil, Now the US government announced that Hack the Army 3.0 army.mil, *.goarmy.mil, Volant, U.S. Hack the Army 3.0

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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for March 2022

IT Governance

The Ukrainian government and its military were targeted by DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks, while a pro-Ukrainian group attacked the Belarusian railway system with ransomware after discovering that it was being used by Russia to transport tanks and weapons. Beware of remote access takeover scams. Get started.

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MY TAKE: Michigan’s cybersecurity readiness initiatives provide roadmap others should follow

The Last Watchdog

My reporting trip included meetings with Michigan-based cybersecurity vendors pursuing leading-edge innovations, as well as a tour of a number of thriving public-private cybersecurity incubator and training programs. The first Cyber Range training and testing hub opened at Eastern Michigan University in late 2012. They answered, yes.

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GUEST ESSAY: Theft of MQ-9 Reaper docs highlights need to better protect ‘high-value assets’

The Last Watchdog

military information for sale on the Dark Web for a nominal sum, in and of itself, is unfortunate and unremarkable. The Insikt Group determined that the hacker/seller must have accessed a Netgear router with misconfigured FTP login credentials. The discovery of sensitive U.S.

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Biden AI Order Enables Agencies to Address Key Risks

Hunton Privacy

Notably, the Order requires private companies to share with the federal government the results of “red-team” safety tests for foundation models that pose certain risks, directs the development of new AI standards to guide government agencies’ acquisition and use of AI, creates a new National AI Research Resource to foster U.S.

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