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What is Smishing? Definition, Examples and Prevention

IT Governance

You can help educate your employees and bolster your organisation’s defences with our Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme. This 45-minute course was developed by experts and uses real-life examples that bring to life the threat of phishing and the techniques that cyber criminals use. Get started The post What is Smishing?

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NCSC warns of a surge in ransomware attacks on education institutions

Security Affairs

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued an alert about a surge in ransomware attacks targeting education institutions. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), has issued an alert about a surge in ransomware attacks against education institutions. SecurityAffairs – hacking, education institutions). Pierluigi Paganini.

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

The Last Watchdog

Having said that, here are some examples of IT careers you can learn online through free courses: Security specialist. That makes fighting cybercrime a definite growth industry. Many universities offer massive open online courses (MOOC) in cybersecurity. Students can opt to purchase diplomas after their course of study.

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Grow and Learn with Professional Registration

CILIP

Although her educational background and initial work was in education, a career in libraries is where her professional interests and ambitions came together. “I I enjoy challenges, adapting my skills and learning new ones, and I’ve always been an academic, so most of my professional life has been in education.”

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Intelligent Information Management (IIM) Policies and the Law - Part 1

AIIM

All those other areas are much broader in their interpretation of “business records”; under hearsay, the definition is comparatively narrow. One of the more difficult challenges for IIM specialists is keeping these definitions straight. One of the specific conditions is that the record must be made in the ordinary course of business.

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Cybercriminals Use Fake Public PoCs to Spread Malware and Steal Data

eSecurity Planet

While such PoCs are usually meant for educational purposes only, researchers found that 4,893 repositories out of 47,300 examined “have symptoms of malicious content,” which represents a bit more than 10% of all PoCs analyzed. However, running code blindly without knowing what it does is the very definition of a script kiddie.

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University, Professional Certification or Direct Experience?

Security Affairs

Would it be better a university course , a professional certification or an experience in a cybersecurity firm? but that recursive question raised a more general question: what are the differences between cybersecurity educational models? If there is no information to be shared there isn’t an education process.