Author Archives: Bradley Barth

Free cyber career training coursework emerges as a perk in tough times

New complimentary offerings are helping current, aspiring and unemployed infosec professionals gain an upper hand in a down economy, while aiding an industry facing a growing skills gap.

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Surge in remotely hosted phish images? Some say it’s business as usual

In Nov. 2020 alone, company blocked 262 million emails containing malicious, remotely hosted images.

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Sunspot malware scoured servers for SolarWinds builds that it could weaponize

Software company says 2 customer inquires, in hindsight, appear linked to supply-chain attack

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Complexity and cost chip away at SOCs’ perceived return on investment

51% of 17,200 surveyed IT and security practitioners said that
their SOC’s ROI has gotten worse.

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‘I’ll Teams you’: Employees assume security of links, file sharing via Microsoft comms platform

In theory they know better. But Users naïvely trust workplace communications platforms, despite phishing and impersonation threats.

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SolarWinds hack is the perfect foreword to new book on history’s biggest breaches

SC Media spoke to author and former CISO Neil Daswani about his upcoming new book “Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone.”

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Linux machines again targeted by hackers with new memory loader

The Ezuri loader filelessly executes malware on Linux machines from memory, using a technique that is more common in Windows.

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Malspam campaign spoofs email chains to install IcedID info-stealer

A phishing campaign has been disguising its spam as an email chain, using messages taken from email clients on previously compromised hosts.

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SolarWinds hack: Amid hardened security, attackers seek softer targets

Experts disagree that election security efforts detracted from supply chain security. But there are still lessons to be learned.

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