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What is a Cyberattack? Types and Defenses

eSecurity Planet

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 In May, cybersecurity researchers revealed that ransomware attacks are increasing their aggressive approach by destroying data instead of encrypting it.

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The Decreasing Usefulness of Positive Visual Security Indicators (and the Importance of Negative Ones)

Troy Hunt

The correct answer to this question is: The traffic between the browser and the webshop is encrypted. Most notably, they're now free through services like Let's Encrypt and Cloudflare and they're dead easy to setup so there goes another barrier too. But the option does not exist. — Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) April 4, 2012.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: DEF CON Villages

ForAllSecure

So in this episode, I'm going to share some of the conversations I've had with leaders of some of those more established villages over the last 50 episodes of the hacker mine. Ollam: so locks at DEF CON and locks it at any hacker conference. This year, there are over 30 distinct villages available. Do you want to do that next year?

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10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

Troy Hunt

Number 1 is "Mining, Resources & Energy" which had a local boom here but is now rapidly declining (down 14% on the previous year). Take mining out of the picture and the top industry ("Consulting & Strategy"), pays only 5% more than tech. I regret that I had to learn French in high school. We lost money on shares.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

Yeah, there are tracks at conferences, but it hasn't yet exploded into the mainstream. And that's probably a security design of what they're, what they might put out there and encryption keys and things like that. I mean, it's a talk that I gave it a new radio conference. It's mine. Not that long.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Inside DEF CON’S Champion CTF Team PPP

ForAllSecure

There was some USB drive that was encrypted that they found so that's the only clue that you get. So you would have to go and figure out first of all that it's encrypted and then decrypted. Then there's a file in there that is also encrypted. You have to decrypt that as well. There was a steganography in the image.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Inside DEF CON’S Champion CTF Team PPP

ForAllSecure

There was some USB drive that was encrypted that they found so that's the only clue that you get. So you would have to go and figure out first of all that it's encrypted and then decrypted. Then there's a file in there that is also encrypted. You have to decrypt that as well. There was a steganography in the image.