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Penetration Testing Remote Workers

SecureWorld News

is an electronic cyberattack that targets a user by email and falsely poses as an authentic entity to bait individuals into providing sensitive data, corporate passwords, clicks on a malicious web link, or execute malware. All pentesters need to do is reply to an existing work-related post to begin their attack.

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Here’s who Apple and Epic are calling to testify in next week’s trial

The Verge

Epic argues that Apple unfairly kicked its hit game Fortnite off the App Store last year, exercising an illegal monopoly over the ubiquitous iOS platform. Apple claims Epic is trying to break the iOS platform’s vaunted safety and security for its own gain. Scheduled for one hour examination, 30 minutes cross examination.).

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Gaining Persistence On Windows Boxes

ForAllSecure

If you’re running edge detection, if your scanning your networks, even occasionally rebooting your servers these activities will remove some running malware, yet the bad actors somehow return and remain persistent. These APTs have somehow found a way to bypass most security tools, hence their persistence. Stealth malware.

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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. In a moment I’ll introduce you to someone who is trying to do that--bring ICS equipment to security conferences. When they did that.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: How To Become A 1337 Hacker

ForAllSecure

Critical Thinking exercise where you've got a couple of other hoops or things to work through some other hoops to jump through. Vamosi: So, given that there are a lot of great CTFs, what then is a good entry point for starting CTFs or information security for that matter? newcomers that are interested in this field.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Fog of Cyber War

ForAllSecure

I’m talking about cybercrime unicorns, talking the fog of cyberwar among nation states, and about a new book that I think will be on the shelves of every information security professional later this summer. Vamosi: The slogan of the RSA Conference is “Where the World Talks Security,” and, in general.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Shall We Play A Game?

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: Today, John has taken his juvenile curiosity in breaking things down to become a security researcher with Huntress Labs. Hammond: As a security researcher, I am hierarchically in their Threat OPs department. What’s a good entry point for starting CTFs or information security for that matter?