DART: the Microsoft cybersecurity team we hope you never meet

If you spent 270 days away from home, not on vacation, you’d want it to be for a good reason. When boarding a plane, sometimes having been pulled out of bed to leave family for weeks on end, I know it’s because one of our customers is in need. It means there is a security compromise and they may ...

ThreatList: Remote Workers Threaten 1 in 3 Organizations

While IT leaders see the benefits of remote working and understand that millennial-friendly telecommuting is unlikely to go anywhere anytime soon, many still fear that the potential of employees to access corporate resources via public Wi-fi and the use of personal devices opens their organizatio...

Free Training: New Certified Learning Paths

The Qualys Training team is eager to share all of the recent additions to our free training program, as well as provide insight into what is coming in 2019. You can expect to see regular updates as we continue to improve our training offerings! It is our mission to help Qualys customers and...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm teaching a live online class called "Spotlight on Cloud: The Future of Internet Security with Bruce Schneier" on O'Reilly's learning platform, Thursday, April 4, at 10:00 AM PT/1:00 PM ET. The list is maintained on this page...

AWS Certification Training Courses – Get 2019 Bundle @ 96% OFF

With countless web apps and online services launching every day, there is an increasing demand for cloud developers. This exciting niche is due to grow rapidly over the next few years, and the paycheck should follow suit. If you want to build a career in this lucrative niche, it pays to know AWS...

AWS Certification Training Courses – Get 2019 Bundle @ 96% OFF

With countless web apps and online services launching every day, there is an increasing demand for cloud developers. This exciting niche is due to grow rapidly over the next few years, and the paycheck should follow suit. If you want to build a career in this lucrative niche, it pays to know AWS...

Practical advice for earning higher Microsoft bounty awards

This year at the Nullcon International Security Conference I shared practical advice for how security researchers can maximize the impact of their security vulnerability submissions and earn higher bounty awards under the Microsoft Bounty Program. For those who couldn’t be there, I had two core...

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In today's fast-moving digital world, we know businesses need to rapidly adapt to meet user expectations and stay competitive. At Akamai, we see a world of unimagined potential, enabled through the unique power of the Akamai Edge. It's this power, backed by the support of our 2000 global experts,...

Tackling the shortage in skilled IT staff: whole team security

Is your IT department understaffed, overworked, and are you looking for reinforcements in vain? Maybe these hard-to-hire reinforcements can be hired from within, rather than having to outsource or hire expensive, short-term extra help. While this was usually only done if your own staff was fallin...

Don’t Blame Employees who fall for a BEC scam!

The BBC reports that a media company based in Scotland is now suing a former employee who fell for a Business Email Compromise BEC scam. In the scam, the employee received emails which appeared to be from the managing director and requested wire transfers. The employee worked with her line manage...

How a Dedicated Focus on Clarity Can Relieve Disorganization, Distraction and Confusion in Infosec

clar·i·ty /ˈklerədē/ noun the quality of being coherent and intelligible. "For the sake of clarity, each of these strategies is dealt with separately" 1. synonyms: | lucidity, lucidness, clearness, perspicuity, intelligibility, comprehensibility, coherence;More ---|--- It’s been three years on th...

desclub-training.ru XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-716433 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| desclub-training.ru Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:|...

Logical design flaws in the web-based training community system

Beijing Sinew Education Technology Co., Ltd. is a comprehensive education technology company that focuses on serving the enrollment and training of higher adult continuing education; professional development training for teachers; research and development of technology related to large-scale onli...

Women in Cyber Take the 2019 Spotlight

As the cybersecurity industry continues to struggle to meet a workforce gap – an estimated 3.5 million jobs are expected to remain unfilled by 2021 – it’s clear that encouraging women and those from diverse backgrounds to pursue careers in the field will be a key factor in staying ahead of the...

Tools for capturing and analyzing keyboard input paired with microphone capture

The main goal is to exploit the sound produced by pressing keyboard keys as a side channel in order to guess the content of the text being typed. To achieve this, the algorithm takes as input a training set, consisting of an audio recording, together with the corresponding keys being typed during...

Become a Certified Hacker With This Hands-On Training Course

It seems as though not a day goes by without news spreading over another major cyber attack. Hackers are becoming increasingly efficient at targeting everything from small startups to Fortune 500 companies and even entire government agencies, and as the world moves further away from traditional...

The Importance of Employee Cybersecurity Training: Top Strategies and Best Practices

For those responsible for overseeing the data protection and cybersecurity of an organization, it's a familiar storyline: "Employee opens email attachment and infects business with ransomware." Headlines to this effect are nothing new. Even the most advanced security solutions can't completely...

windowsrt-training.de XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-697896 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| windowsrt-training.de Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:|...

A week in security (November 5 – 11)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at browser lockers that fly under the radar with complete obfuscation, transport and logistics in our series about compromising vital infrastructure, Google logins now requiring JavaScript, how to create a sticky cybersecurity training program, and an...

ThreatList: Google Play Nine Times Safer Than Third-Party App Stores

Bearing out the conventional wisdom that avoiding third-party app stores is a security best practice, new data from Google shows that Android devices that only download apps from Google Play are nine times less likely to end up with malware. According to Google’s inaugural Android Ecosystem...