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Ransomware’s Number 1 Target? Your Kid’s School

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The FBI, CISA, and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) recently revealed that the number of ransomware incidents against K-12 districts increased dramatically at the beginning of fall 2020 classes. Use multi-factor authentication where possible. K-12 districts now top ransomware target.

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Common Techniques Hackers Use to Penetrate Systems and How to Protect Your Organization

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How to Protect Against Social Engineering Attacks Organizations can protect themselves against social engineering attacks by educating employees about the risks, enabling multi-factor authentication, and implementing security policies that require verification of any requests for sensitive information or actions.

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Alert: 'Imminent and Increasing Threat' as Wave of Ryuk Ransomware Hits Hospitals

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October 29, 2020. Use multi-factor authentication where possible. Implement application and remote access allow listing to only allow systems to execute programs known and permitted by the established security policy. Here is how to mitigate your risk: [link] — Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (@CISAgov).

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

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Vamosi: Bowen’s public inquiry revealed findings of multiple buffer overflows, software updates without authentication, and inadequate randomization of the ballots so that valid secrecy can be compromised -- among other vulnerabilities. In 2020, we’re stuck in the middle of these two extremes right now.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

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Vamosi: Bowen’s public inquiry revealed findings of multiple buffer overflows, software updates without authentication, and inadequate randomization of the ballots so that valid secrecy can be compromised -- among other vulnerabilities. In 2020, we’re stuck in the middle of these two extremes right now.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

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Vamosi: Bowen’s public inquiry revealed findings of multiple buffer overflows, software updates without authentication, and inadequate randomization of the ballots so that valid secrecy can be compromised -- among other vulnerabilities. In 2020, we’re stuck in the middle of these two extremes right now.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Ransomware

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He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. And all this was just super cool to me seeing how he was able to program these things from scratch. Amen game kind of a Facebook thing.

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