SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2024

Nonprofits often juggle tight budgets and unique operational demands, making it even more difficult to keep sensitive information safe—but here's the thing: you don't need a fortune to build a strong defense against the possible cyber threats out there. Let's take a closer look at some key cybersecurity strategies for nonprofits to consider.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

So there’s a need, a definite need, for information security professionals to have access to industrial control systems -- not virtual, but actual hands on systems -- so they can learn. Ransomware is malicious computer code that blocks and owners access to their computer network until a ransom gets paid. What's in there?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

FOX: Roberts: You basically have to understand how computer networks work, how avionics systems work, and then be able to translate communicate between those systems We've primarily focused on physically being in the airplane and hooking up to inflight entertainment. He wasn’t just some stunt hacker. I'm just gonna say that.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Our guests included: Cindy Liebes, Chief Program Officer for the Cybercrime Support Network; Jake Wilson, Security Awareness Evangelist for Western Governors University; and Gretel Egan, Senior Security Awareness and Training Strategist for Proofpoint. I don't even have a budget.' We actually did that with a budget of $0. Ask me anything.'.

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The Verge

MAY 10, 2021

Honestly, I think for anyone who’s been tracking ransomware closely, this really shouldn’t be a surprise,” says Philip Reiner, CEO of the nonprofit Institute for Security and Technology. And while the attacks are virtual, the consequences can be quickly felt on the ground. “Yet another example of what is really a ransomware pandemic”.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

What he touched off instead was a rampant epidemic last November that infected a national defense network of computers among others. Is it the hospital, which should have had a power backup? And then in 2020 pandemic, you know, DEF CON was all virtual. Morris's defense and includes that he intended only a low grade.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

An advertiser boycott of Facebook and other social networks this month , along with a difficult civil rights audit of the company , have brought further scrutiny to the issue. Related: Facebook is rife with misinformation about voting, according to an analysis by ProPublica and the nonprofit First Draft. Look out someone else’s window.

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