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ACC Foundation Releases Extensive State of Cybersecurity Report

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Employee error was the most frequent cause of a breach (24%), followed by inside jobs (15%), phishing (12%), access through a third party (12%), lost laptop or device (9%), application vulnerability (7%), and malware (7%). PPL forms program for nonprofit groups (republicanherald.com). About Ballard Spahr. About the ACC Foundation.

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Should You Have a Business Email Compromise Incident Response Plan?

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Weaponization - While most BEC attacks don't involve malware, it isn't completely unheard of. But for the most part, the BEC "weaponization" process is more aligned to compiling the reconnaissance to develop authentic-appearing email accounts and messages. Should you have a BEC Incident Response Plan?

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The Hacker Mind: Shattering InfoSec's Glass Ceiling

ForAllSecure

It was around this time that she developed something called Chenxification, which she insists was not her term. Anyway, what Chenxification does for example is frustrate computer malware's ability to locate and extract an application's decryption key. So I also have recently launched a nonprofit called the Forte group.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

They also had a piece of malware called killdisk position on the systems so that when the systems rebooted, it would kick off deleting all the files and deleting all the systems. It was a masterful piece of malware, carefully crafted to achieve a specific goal. We train them, we develop the years 100,000 People all right.

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GeekWire Awards 2020 revealed: Big winners, celebrities and surprises power virtual event

GeekWire

In 2007, he co-founded Chronus , a company that built digital tools for employee development programs. based startup that helps developers build identity authentication capabilities into their applications, reached that status last year with a massive $103 million round. Maybe unicorns aren’t so elusive after all.

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Half of all Facebook moderators may develop mental health issues

The Verge

I wrote about it today at The Verge : In a landmark acknowledgment of the toll that content moderation takes on its workforce, Facebook has agreed to pay $52 million to current and former moderators to compensate them for mental health issues developed on the job. I just wish that Facebook would recognize that.”. Sarah Perez / TechCrunch ).

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NSO Group Placed on U.S. Blacklist

SecureWorld News

Pegasus is a malware that infects mobile devices and enables operators to extract messages, photos, emails, record calls and secretly activate microphones. Earlier this year, an investigation by 17 of the world's largest media outlets into the NSO Group discovered widespread abuse of the hacking spyware Pegasus.

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