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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

Organizations gathered to discuss courses and programs to address the critical cybersecurity workforce needs in the United States. Each participating organization is committed to developing cyber skills and programs to train the workforce across a wide range of industries, including manufacturing.

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Russia-linked APT28 targets govt bodies with fake NATO training docs

Security Affairs

Russia-linked cyberespionage group APT28 uses fake NATO training documents as bait in attacks aimed at government bodies. The malicious code was distributed using fake NATO training materials as bait and had a very low detection rate of 3/61 on VirusTotal. The researchers analyzed files (Course 5 – 16 October 2020.zipx)

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Russian and Belarusian men charged with spying for Russian GRU

Security Affairs

Polish authorities charged Russian and Belarusian individuals with spying for the Russian military intelligence service (GRU). Polish authorities charged Russian and Belarusian individuals, who were arrested in April, with spying for the Russian military intelligence service (GRU) from 2017 to April 2022. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Ministry of Defence academy hit by state-sponsored hackers

Security Affairs

The Defence Academy is headquartered at what used to be the Royal Military College of Science site at Shrivenham in southwestern Oxfordshire; it delivers education and training there and in a number of other sites. The majority of training is postgraduate with many courses being accredited for the award of civilian qualifications.

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Kevin Mitnick, Hacker Turned Cybersecurity Leader, Dies at 59

eSecurity Planet

He helped design KnowBe4’s training based on his social engineering tactics, and he became a partial owner of KnowBe4 in November 2011. Mitnick often represented the company at conferences and discussed his experience in KnowBe4 training videos. military systems and launch nuclear missiles through mere whistling.

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MY TAKE: Why companies and consumers must collaborate to stop the plundering of IoT systems

The Last Watchdog

IoT devices help remotely control our household appliances, power plants, smart buildings, factories, airports, shipyards, trucks, trains and military. The operating systems of home IoT devices today typically get shipped with minimal logon security. And we’re just getting started. This is a sign of IoT attacks to come.

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