Making better cybersecurity training: Q&A with Malwarebytes expert Kelsey Prichard

If you hadn’t noticed by now, we are in the first week of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which, according to the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency in the United States, means that we should all consider how people, organizations, and businesses can “be cyber smart” this ye...

CISA Releases Guidance: TIC 3.0 Remote User Use Case

In coordination with the Office of Management and Budget OMB, the Federal Chief Information Security Officer Council FCISO Trusted Internet Connections TIC Subcommittee, and the General Services Administration, CISA has released Trusted Internet Connections 3.0 Remote User Use Case. The Remote Us...

#BeCyberSmart: When we learn together, we’re more secure together

2021 has been a watershed year in cybersecurity. The pandemic continued to bring new challenges as attackers took advantage of overstretched security teams to unleash new human-operated ransomware1, malware, and nation-state attacks like those against Colonial Pipeline2 and JBS Food3. With the mo...

Teaching cybersecurity skills to special needs children with Alana Robinson: Lock and Code S02E18

School is fully back in session for kids all across the world, and for many students, that means logging back online to learn, do homework, submit assignments, and maybe even continue some distance learning, depending on their schools pandemic precautions. But with more Internet activity comes...

Exploit for Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output in F5 Nginx

This is an offensive tool for web application security training. It is a collection of vulnerable web applications, each with its own set of vulnerabilities, designed to help users learn and practice web application security testing. The repository contains a variety of web applications, includin...

Akamai’s Flagship Customer Enablement Program, Akamai University, Wins Gold “Excellence in Learning” Award

The Technical Enablement and Education team, part of Akamai’s Global Services organization, has won a coveted Brandon Hall Group Gold award for “Best Customer Training Program,” for Akamai’s flagship customer training and enablement program, Akamai University...

Honing Cybersecurity Strategy When Everyone’s a Target for Ransomware

These days, ransomware is seemingly ubiquitous. No longer just a discussion topic for cybersecurity professionals and researchers, these days it seems like rarely a week goes by when it’s not in the mainstream media. It’s rapidly become a commonplace word, and in some respects, this increased...

vulhub

This repository is an offensive tool for creating pre-built vulnerable environments based on Docker-Compose. It is a collection of vulnerable applications and services that can be used for testing and training purposes. The repository includes a variety of vulnerable applications, such as CouchDB...

CVE-2021-39207

parlai is a framework for training and evaluating AI models on a variety of openly available dialogue datasets. In affected versions the package is vulnerable to YAML deserialization attack caused by unsafe loading which leads to Arbitary code execution. This security bug is patched by avoiding...

my.dynamictraining.org.uk Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2131976

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website operator about its existence...

Get Lifetime Access to 24 Professional Cybersecurity Certification Prep Courses

Not all heroes wear capes. Cybersecurity professionals are digital warriors who use their knowledge and skill to battle malicious hackers. Sounds like an exciting career, right? If the comic-book comparisons aren't working for you, perhaps some figures will. According to ZipRecruiter, the average...

Experts: WH Cybersecurity Summit Should Be Followed by Regulation, Enforcement

Cataclysmic breaches and a woeful shortage of a trained cybersecurity workforce prompted the Biden Administration to haul a collection of the biggest names in business into a White House cybersecurity summit this week, to talk about what they plan to do about it. The outcome of the talks falls...

The Cybersecurity Skills Gap Is Widening: New Study

The era of COVID-19 has taught us all a few things about supply and demand. From the early days of toilet paper shortages to more recent used-car pricing shocks, the stress tests brought on by a global pandemic have revealed the extremely delicate balance of scarcity and surplus. Another area...

 ICSJWG 2021 Fall Virtual Meeting

The Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group ICSJWG will hold the virtual 2021 ICSJWG Fall Meeting, September 21—22, 2021. ICSJWG meetings facilitate relationship building among critical infrastructure stakeholders and owners/operators of industrial control systems, idea exchange regarding...

Learn Ethical Hacking From Scratch — 18 Online Courses for Just $43

If you're reading this post, there is a pretty good chance you're interested in hacking. Ever thought about turning it into a career? The cybersecurity industry is booming right now, and ethical hacking is one of the most lucrative and challenging niches. It's open to anyone with the right skills...

How to manage a side-by-side transition from your traditional SIEM to Azure Sentinel

With every week bringing new headlines about crippling cyberattacks, and with organizations growing increasingly distributed, security teams are constantly asked to do more with less. Moving to cloud-native security information and event management SIEM can help security teams analyze data with t...

DevSecOps Training - Data Center Attack: The Game

See what it’s like as a security decision maker in Data Center Attack: The Game. Will your decisions help save lives?...

The True Impact of Ransomware Attacks

One of the most damaging myths about ransomware attacks is, “If your company does regular system backups, you don’t have to worry. Just restore from the backup.” While system backups are crucial — power outages, natural disasters, or even mistakes by employees can destroy data just as quickly as ...

In0ri - Defacement Detection With Deep Learning

In0ri is a defacement detection system utilizing a image-classification convolutional neural network. Introduction When monitoring a website, In0ri will periodically take a screenshot of the website then put it through a preprocessor that will resize the image down to 250x250px and numericalize t...

How to build a security-first culture with remote teams

If recent world events have driven an increase in the number of remote workers in your organization, you are now confronted by even more security challenges for already stretched security teams and busy IT departments. Sixty-one percent of CISOs are more concerned about security risks targeting...