Google Play Touts Certs in Quest For Enterprise Security

Google is now touting three new security certifications for Managed Google Play, which the company hopes will serve as a badge of security honor for companies thinking about using its enterprise-focused app marketplace. The move comes as Google continues to try to amp up efforts around the securi...

Top 5 Factors That Increase Cyber Security Salary The Most

Our partner Springboard, which provides online courses to help you advance your cybersecurity career with personalized mentorship from industry experts, recently researched current cybersecurity salaries and future earning potential in order to trace a path to how much money you can make. Here's...

Program Looks to Tap Military Vets for Cyber-Jobs

Cisco Talos, NetApp and Maryland’s state government announced an initiative to help military veterans in that state transition into civilian positions in cybersecurity. The hope is that it will address twin goals: To help the hundreds of thousands of discharged veterans flowing into the workplace...

CyberVets U.S.A.: The mission after transition

Christopher Marshall, a veteran of the U.S. Navy, currently serves as Director of Cybersecurity Research for Cisco Talos Intelligence Group. As a veteran of the U.S. Navy, I’ve had the opportunity to use some of the greatest technology this country has to offer — from night vision goggles, to...

The Many Paths To A Cybersecurity Education

Ask a room full of cybersecurity professionals about their educational background and how they got started on their career path and you’re going to get a myriad of different answers. From one perspective, that’s frustrating. It’s hard to confidently recommend a path for people starting out when...

Wi-Fi Gets Simplified Version Numbers and Next Version is Wi-Fi 6

Do you know what is the latest version of Wi-Fi? It's okay if you don't know. It is — Wi-Fi is 802.11ac. I am sure many of us can't answer this question immediately because the Wi-Fi technology doesn't have a traditional format of version numbers… at least until yesterday. The Wi-Fi Alliance—the...

Cybersecurity Certifications: Why They Matter and How to Know Which Ones To Pursue

Whether you’re just starting off in the cybersecurity field or are already working as a security professional, there are many certifications for you to consider across various specializations and difficulty levels. Not to mention certifications covering a range of disciplines and emerging securit...

USN-3675-1 gnupg, gnupg2 vulnerabilities

Marcus Brinkmann discovered that during decryption or verification, GnuPG did not properly filter out terminal sequences when reporting the original filename. An attacker could use this to specially craft a file that would cause an application parsing GnuPG output to incorrectly interpret the...

CVE-2018-9234

GnuPG 2.2.4 and 2.2.5 does not enforce a configuration in which key certification requires an offline master Certify key, which results in apparently valid certifications that occurred only with access to a signing subkey...

5 Proven Cyber Security Certifications That Will Boost Your Salary in 2018

By Alex Bennett Looking for which cyber security certifications you should get your This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 5 Proven Cyber Security Certifications That Will Boost Your Salary in 2018...

September 7, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “NFL Kickoff” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! September 7, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Milton Security Announc...

HandBrake for Mac Compromised with Proton Spyware

The handlers of the open source HandBrake video transcoder are warning anyone who recently downloaded the Mac version of the software that they’re likely infected with malware. HandBrake warned users on Saturday of a compromise of one of its mirror download servers, and said anyone who grabbed th...

Cybersecurity Domains Mind Map

Last month I retweeted an image labelled "The Map of Cybersecurity Domains v1.0". I liked the way this graphic divided "security" into various specialties. At the time I did not do any research to identify the originator of the graphic. Last night before my Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu class I heard some ...

70+ Cyber Security Micro-Courses and Certifications To Boost Your IT Career

With the evolving hacking events around us, cyber-security skills are in high demand across all organizations and industries, because a shortage of skilled cyber security practitioners could leave an organization vulnerable to cyber attacks. But knowledge alone is not sufficient, 'certification a...

Ansible Tower Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Ansible is simple configuration management, deployment, task execution, and multi-node authoring framework. Ansible Tower suffers from an information disclosure vulnerability that allows an attacker to bypass certain security certifications and gain access to sensitive information...