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Overcoming the Cyber Security Challenges of the Cloud

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The CSO guide to top security conferences, 2020

CSO Online’s calendar of upcoming security conferences makes it easy to find the events that matter the most to you.

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Australia FBI’s fifth largest source of cybercrime reports in 2019

Cybercrime victims in Australia were behind the fifth largest number of complaints to the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in 2019.

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What is phishing? How this cyber attack works and how to prevent it

Phishing is a method of trying to gather personal information using deceptive e-mails and websites. Here's what you need to know about this venerable, but increasingly sophisticated, form of cyber attack.

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IT Salary Survey 2020: The results are in

Insider Pro reveals the current salaries for dozens of tech titles, details about IT workers' top concerns, the state of the tech hiring and the tech specialties raking in the biggest compensation.

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The 25 worst passwords of 2019, and 8 tips for improving password security

Blacklist these 25 passwords now and use these tips to improve enterprise password security.

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DDoS explained: How distributed denial of service attacks are evolving

A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is when attackers attempt to make it impossible for a service to be delivered, typically by drowning a system with requests for data. They have been part of the criminal toolbox for twenty...

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The OPM hack explained: Bad security practices meet China's Captain America

How the OPM hack happened, the technical details, and a timeline of the infiltration and response.

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Marriott data breach FAQ: How did it happen and what was the impact?

In late 2018, the Marriott hotel chain announced that one of its reservation systems had been compromised, with hundreds of millions of customer records, including credit card and passport numbers, being exfiltrated by the attackers....

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Equifax data breach FAQ: What happened, who was affected, what was the impact?

In 2017, personally identifying data of hundreds of millions of people was stolen from credit reporting agency Equifax. Here's a timeline of what happened, how it happened, and the impact.

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Cybersecurity spending trends, 2020

Spending is up, but perhaps not in the most needed areas, increased business leader involvement brings new challenges, while vertical industries have different requirements and priorities.

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How to fight hidden malware on Windows networks

Attackers are more clever about how they hide malicious files. Countering that starts with knowing what services belong on your network.

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Episode 3: Succeeding with security as code

Podcast Episode 3: Listen now as Marnie Wilking, global head of security & technology risk management at Wayfair, talks about why the shift to the cloud requires a new set of security skills.

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Why security is creeping out of the shadows

10 years or so ago, Cybersecurity was something that was talked about in hidden rooms, secret meetings and was almost like some dark magic practice that most didn't understand or feared.

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8 steps to being (almost) completely anonymous online

The universe may believe in encryption, but it doesn't believe in anonymity. You're going to have to work for it.

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Release the monkey! How Infection Monkey tests network security

This free, open source penetration testing tool uses real attacks and real techniques to try and exploit its way into a network.

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