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Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime is Mostly Boring

Krebs on Security

The findings come in a new paper released by researchers at Cambridge University’s Cybercrime Centre , which examined the quality and types of work needed to build, maintain and defend illicit enterprises that make up a large portion of the cybercrime-as-a-service market. So I just left and went on with life. ” WHINY CUSTOMERS.

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Black Hat insights: Getting bombarded by multiple ransomware attacks has become commonplace

The Last Watchdog

This grim outlook is shared in a new white paper from Sophos. Major vulnerabilities left unpatched, as well as weakly configured system administration tools are sure to get discovered and manipulated, not just once, but many times over. Configure system administrative tools more wisely. Shier is spot on.

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Your CVSS Questions Answered

IT Governance

What the Common Vulnerability Scoring System is, how to use it, limitations and alternatives, and key changes in CVSS v4.0 The CVSS is a globally recognised framework that allows for a universal, standard scoring system for software vulnerabilities. will be adopted. will be adopted. What is the CVSS? In both CVSS v3.X X and v4.0,

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What Is an Insider Threat? Definition, Types, and Examples

IT Governance

For example, this could happen if an insider damages the organisation’s server or deletes information from its Cloud systems. An engineer at the firm, Jean Patrice Delia, had persuaded an IT administrator to grant him access to sensitive information, which he siphoned off with the intention of starting a rival company.

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Build and Sustain Your Records Program with a Records Management Playbook

ARMA International

What would happen to your records program? How long would it take your organization to rebuild the team from scratch? If you had a records management playbook in place, your newly hired team could hit the ground running! What is a Playbook? So how is this different from a standard operating procedures (SOP) manual? What the Playbook is Not.

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Will Autonomous Security Kill CVEs?

ForAllSecure

It evolved to a place where system administrators and cybersecurity professionals had to monitor several different lists, which didn’t scale well. Where Vulnerability Information Comes From. Today, most vulnerability databases are created and maintained through huge amounts of manual effort. We’ve Evolved Before.

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Will Autonomous Security Kill CVEs?

ForAllSecure

It evolved to a place where system administrators and cybersecurity professionals had to monitor several different lists, which didn’t scale well. Where Vulnerability Information Comes From. Today, most vulnerability databases are created and maintained through huge amounts of manual effort. We’ve Evolved Before.