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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way. Further reading: Best Cybersecurity Awareness Training for Employees. costing an estimated $18.88

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MY TAKE: Iran’s cyber retaliation for Soleimani assassination continues to ramp up

The Last Watchdog

Grimes, a data defense expert at cybersecurity training vendor KnowBe4. Issued a few days after the killing, the report assesses cyber risks of North American electrical utilities, identifying 11 hacking groups that target energy sector companies. Before that, Middle East computer security was almost non-existent.

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Kali Linux Penetration Testing Tutorial: Step-By-Step Process

eSecurity Planet

You may use a VPN or install utilities to capture and forward traffic to other subnets, or configure proxychains. Then you might want to learn more advanced techniques or to invest in dedicated online training programs (see the final section of this article). Note that Kali won’t hide your IP or cover your fingerprints automagically.

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Episode 162: Have We missed Electric Grid Cyber Attacks for Years? Also: Breaking Bad Security Habits

The Security Ledger

Also: Rachel Stockton of the firm LastPass * joins us to talk about changing users troublesome password behavior to make companies more secure. grid happened on March 5, 2019 when an unidentified actor attacked firewalls at an undisclosed utility that was part of the power grid in California, Utah and Wyoming.

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5 Major Cybersecurity Trends to Know for 2024

eSecurity Planet

Yet these dangers can be offset through training to minimize issues. By training such models with PII data that is readily available on dark web marketplaces, attack lures that are much more personal and enterprise specific can be created at scale. continues Ricardo Villadiego, founder & CEO of Lumu. “By

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

For example, in 2009, the Obama administration provided financial incentives to utilities in the United States. And again, smart meters were positioned squarely as making the environment more friendly by knowing how and when energy is being used by individual customers. The train keeps going. That they're only using smartphones?

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords. According to 404 Media , the company is planning to sell content to OpenAI and Midjourney to train their AI models, although it’s not clear what types of user data will be shared. The threat actor, KryptonZambie, listed a 5.93