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SECURITY HEADLINES: SPYING & STEALING

This post was originally published here by  (ISC)² Management. Spying, stealing, defacing. It’s been a busy week. These are the top security headlines for the week of August 28, 2017: The U.S. Navy says there’s no evidence of a cyber attack in the crash of the USS John S. McCain – but hypothetically, this is how it would […]

SECURITY HEADLINES: WORD MALWARE, CLOUD DISASTERS AND MORE

This post was originally published here by (ISC)² Management. Malware through Word, hacked robots and cloud disasters? No wonder we have anxiety. These are the top security headlines for the week of August 21, 2017: Clippy never warned us about this! Attackers are exploiting a Microsoft Word feature that auto-updates links to install malware. The financial impact […]

PSEUDO-RANSOMWARE AND SECURITY BUDGETS

This post was originally published here by  (ISC)² Management. Pseudo-ransomware and struggling security budgets. Here are the top security headlines for the week of August 14, 2017: Who would have thought we would long for the days when ransomware was ransomware. Now it’s all too complicated. Bitcoin is going mainstream, but does that mean it’s a […]

GARTNER EXPECTS $93 BILLION IN SECURITY SPEND, BUT WHAT’S MISSING?

This post was originally published here by  (ISC)² Management. Gartner recently released its global information security spending forecast and concluded that security products and services investment will reach $83.4 billion by the end of 2017 (a 7% increase over 2016). The firm also is predicting spending to reach $93 billion in 2018, a 12% increase over this […]

SECURITY HEADLINES: PAYOUTS AND PANIC

This post was originally published here by (ISC)² Management . WannaCry and NotPetya aftermath means payouts and panic. Here are the top security headlines for the week of August 7, 2017: Big money, no whammies! It seems like the hackers behind WannaCry have cashed out their bitcoin into Monero, a harder to track cryptocurrency. Mo money means mo […]

SECURITY HEADLINES: HACKING ATMS, HBO AND MORE

This post was originally published here by  (ISC)² Management. ATMs, HBO, democracy … what can’t be hacked? Here are the top security headlines for the week of July 31, 2017: IOActive hacked at ATM at Black Hat. I guess drinks are on them? Espionage was just a red herring. Apparently hackers in North Korea are looking […]

SECURITY HEADLINES: BLACK HAT EDITION

This post was originally published here by  (ISC)² Management. We can’t all make it to Vegas for Black Hat, but we can get the scoop on what news came out of the annual infosec conference that took over the Mandalay Bay, and security headlines, for the week. So let’s dive into the top headlines from […]

IS IT THE SOLUTION TO FILLING CYBERSECURITY WORKFORCE GAP?

This post was originally published here by  (ISC)² Management. Insights from the 2017 Global Information Security Workforce Study show that the IT players in your organization may be the key to filling the looming cybersecurity workforce gap. The survey was taken by 10,584 cyber and information security professionals in North America, and showed a projected […]

SECURITY HEADLINES: IOT AND GOT

This post was originally published here by  (ISC)². From IoT to GoT, budget issues to interview busts, here are the top security headlines for the week of July 17, 2017: Who is a target for ransomware? Short answer: everyone. But education, government and healthcare organizations top the list. In math that doesn’t seem to add up, […]

SECURITY HEADLINES: WEEKEND WARRIORS, SIM SWAPPING AND MORE

This post was originally published here by  (ISC)². In what passes for a quiet week in the cybersecurity space, here are some of the top security headlines for the week of July 11, 2017: According to the Economic Times, cyber insurance companies haven’t been hit with claims from the summer’s cyberattacks – yet. “It would only […]

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