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Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime is Mostly Boring

Krebs on Security

The researchers concluded that for many people involved, cybercrime amounts to little more than a boring office job sustaining the infrastructure on which these global markets rely, work that is little different in character from the activity of legitimate system administrators.

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Top 12 Cloud Security Best Practices for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) may be less vulnerable than traditional data centers, but that doesn’t mean it’s without its own set of risks. Perhaps most importantly, cloud security training should help employees understand the inherent risk of shadow IT. What is cloud security?

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #24 [The Mind's Bias] Pretexting Now Tops Phishing in Social Engineering Attacks

KnowBe4

Grimes, KnowBe4's Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, for this thought-provoking webinar where he'll share the most common risks associated with passwords and how to develop password policies that work. But it doesn't have to be that way! Join Roger A. She always follows up and she knows the platform very well. Please never promote her.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #19 [Watch Your Back] New Fake Chrome Update Error Attack Targets Your Users

KnowBe4

Users can become desensitized to the potential risks bogus messages concerning IT issues carry with them. The risk obviously is that this killer app will devolve into social engineering at scale. This campaign may be more effective for its routine, innocent look. Informed users are the last line of defense against attacks like these.

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Stealing computing power: A growing trend in cyber crime that can target all Internet-connected devices

CGI

Recent headlines about cyber attacks to mine cryptocurrencies are just the tip of the iceberg. You might think that large data centers, for example, would be at the greatest risk, but this is not the case. This is why I advise both system administrators and users to pay attention actively to the processing power of their environment.

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Best Privileged Access Management (PAM) Software for 2022

eSecurity Planet

These tasks create a much larger attack surface and a greater risk of a data breach, making PAM an essential tool in securing a network and its assets. The smart session management feature can flag access to the most high-risk systems to help prioritize remediation efforts. Privileged Access Management best practices.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #11 [Heads Up] Employees Are Feeding Sensitive Biz Data to ChatGPT, Raising Security Fears

KnowBe4

million workers at its client companies because of the risk of leaking confidential info, client data, source code, or regulated information to the LLM. "In And as more employees use ChatGPT and other AI-based services as productivity tools, the risk will grow, says Howard Ting, CEO of Cyberhaven.