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GUEST ESSAY: Sure steps to achieve a robust employee cybersecurity awareness training regimen

The Last Watchdog

Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. Related: Leveraging security standards to protect your company. It involves regularly changing passwords and inventorying sensitive data. As such, you should limit the amount of information that employees have access to.

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort , which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online. Image: Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs. SocksEscort[.]com

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Exclusive: Pro-Russia group ‘Cyber Spetsnaz’ is attacking government agencies

Security Affairs

USA) has identified an increase in activity within hacktivist groups conducted by a new group called “Cyber Spetsnaz”. Following the attacks of the Killnet Collective, the group responsible for the attacks against major government resources and law enforcement, a new group has been identified called “Cyber Spetsnaz”. Resecurity, Inc.

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Poulight Stealer, a new Comprehensive Stealer from Russia

Security Affairs

Poulight was first spotted by MalwareBytes researchers in middle March and indicators of compromise have been already shared among the security community. The result is a.NET executable: Figure 2: Static information about the binary file. Then, the malware is able to proceed with the infection starting a new threat called “Starter”.

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IoT Cybersecurity: 5 Major Vulnerabilities and How to Tackle Them

Security Affairs

A hacker managed to identify a weak spot in a security camera model. This type of malware attack is called a botnet attack. Usually, the default settings are not focused on security. Nowadays, malware is an indispensable part of the internet (even if we do not like it). The Threat is Definitely Real. Vicious insider.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Teslas

ForAllSecure

Welcome to The Hacker Mind, an original podcast from for all secure. And in this episode, I'm talking about hacking Tesla's or rather new product called Tesla key that prevents somebody from hacking into cars. Herfurt: My name is Martin Herfurt and I'm a security researcher. So they could make calls, listened to music.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Diversity

ForAllSecure

Welcome to the hacker mind and original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. million InfoSec professionals, as of early 2021 How can that be part of the problem lies in the training pipeline, we really have to do a much better job with that. Apparently plenty.