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Ransomware Revival: Troldesh becomes a leader by the number of attacks

Security Affairs

CERT-GIB’s report is based on data collected and analyzed by the Threat Detection System (TDS) Polygon as part of operations to prevent and detect threats distributed online in H1 2019 in more than 60 countries. To bypass corporate security systems, cybercriminals are increasingly often archiving their malicious attachments.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. caused problems of their own.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

APIs are vital in our mobile digital world, but the consequences of API security flaws have yet to be seen. What's on your mobile than our external API's and in the past few years there's been an explosion of external API data. Lascelles: Yeah, and this, this is a huge lesson in API security right hackers are also users.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

APIs are vital in our mobile digital world, but the consequences of API security flaws have yet to be seen. What's on your mobile than our external API's and in the past few years there's been an explosion of external API data. Lascelles: Yeah, and this, this is a huge lesson in API security right hackers are also users.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

Until recently, I was fairly active on Twitter , regularly tweeting to more than 350,000 followers about important security news and stories here. Facing a backlash from lawmakers and the public, the IRS soon reverses course , saying video selfies will be optional and that any biometric data collected will be destroyed after verification.

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

ForAllSecure

It bills itself as the most comprehensive student-run cyber security event in the world, featuring nine individual hacking competitions, including CTFs. There was some USB drive that was encrypted that they found so that's the only clue that you get. Then there's a file in there that is also encrypted.

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

ForAllSecure

It bills itself as the most comprehensive student-run cyber security event in the world, featuring nine individual hacking competitions, including CTFs. There was some USB drive that was encrypted that they found so that's the only clue that you get. Then there's a file in there that is also encrypted.