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How Estonia is using military service to bolster cybersecurity skills
During French President Emmanuel Macron's election campaign he argued that France should reintroduce military service. The plan was for 16-year-olds...
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Are people still the weakest link in cybersecurity?
The workplace has changed forever. The rise of hybrid working means that employees can enjoy the best of both worlds...
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Why it’s good when hacks make the news
Earlier this year news rapidly spread about a cyberattack on the Florida water system after the hacker had managed to...
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Cybersecurity Courses on Elektev: Selected and Compared
Cybersecurity courses are essential in today’s world as they can help both those who want to hone their skills to...
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Emotet: the rise and fall of a criminal empire
The Emotet banking trojan has been active at least since 2014, with the botnet being operated by the Russian cybercrime organization tracked as TA542....
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10 APT groups that joined the MS Exchange exploitation party
At least five advanced threat actors (APTs) were exploiting the Microsoft Exchange servers before the company released patches. After Microsoft...
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Research: 19 petabytes of data exposed across 29,000+ unprotected databases
CyberNews researchers found that more than 29,000 databases worldwide are still completely unprotected and publicly accessible, leaving close to 19,000...
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Unpatched and unprotected: more than 80,000 PHP servers are vulnerable to cyberattacks
CyberNews researchers found more than 80,000 servers worldwide still running on outdated versions of PHP that are susceptible to hundreds...
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Katie Moussouris about cyberespionage: it is getting a lot muddier
Foes like Russia are now using cyber tools not purely for cyber espionage but exploit them down the road for...
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Honeypots: how security teams use bait to protect against cyber threats
A honeypot is a security mechanism designed to lure attackers in a specially crafted virtual trap. Honeypots intentionally appear to...
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2020 was the year of phishing, with a jump of 510% in the first two months alone
A new report shows a staggering 34.4% increase in phishing attacks in the last year.2020 was a bad year to...
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Million-dollar deposits and friends in high places: how we applied for a job with a ransomware gang
During an undercover interview, a CyberNews researcher tricked ransomware operators affiliated with Ragnar Locker into revealing their ransom payout structure,...
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Scammers are capitalizing on our desire to get away
Watch out - malicious domains targeting travelling are on the rise.After more than a year of rolling lockdowns, and with...
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Over 380 thousand IP cameras might be easily accessible worldwide, with the US and Germany in the lead
Ubiquitous video surveillance has become the hallmark of the century, with millions of eyes behind billions of ever-present cameras constantly...
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“Not ideal” from a privacy standpoint: Clubhouse API lets “anyone” scrape public user data
According to Clubhouse, anyone can access its users' profile information via the invite-only app, while its API appears to allow...
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Clubhouse data leak: 1.3 million scraped user records leaked online for free
So far, it seems like it’s been the worst week of the year for social media platforms in terms of...
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Facebook hack scams: Steer clear of shady leak checkers
A raft of websites have been set up to check whether your data was compromised in the recent Facebook hack...
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Gods of cyberwar: the booming of an unregulated zero-day industry
The zero-day industry is rapidly growing, and the West was not prepared for the pace at which adversaries are catching...
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New York charity leaves sensitive patients’ data unsecured
We recently discovered an unsecured database that appears to belong to one of the largest charities in New York. The...
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Think your company is too small to get hacked? Think again
While the news of massive cyberattacks against major organizations worldwide make the headlines on a daily basis, thousands of small...
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