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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 12:00:00 +0000

From potential nation state hacks to a brain drain, the shutdown has done nothing good for cybersecurity.

January 16, 2019 admin

Facebook’s ’10 Year Challenge’ Is Just a Harmless Meme—Right?

Credit to Author: Kate O’Neill| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 23:39:04 +0000

Opinion: The 2009 vs. 2019 profile picture trend may or may not have been a data collection ruse to train its facial recognition algorithm. But we can’t afford to blithely play along.

Security Wired

January 16, 2019 admin

How GPS Tracking Technology Can Curb Domestic Violence

Credit to Author: Gianmarco Raddi| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 19:49:00 +0000

Opinion: GPS-monitored violent offenders are 95 percent less likely to commit a new crime. We need to implement an integrated, nationwide domestic violence program that tracks domestic abusers.

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January 16, 2019 admin

The Advanced Persistent Threat files: APT10

Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 17:00:00 +0000

While security companies are getting good at analyzing the tactics of nation-state threat actors, they still struggle with placing these actions in context and making solid risk assessments. So in this series, we’re going to take a look at a few APT groups, and see how they fit into the larger threat landscape—starting with APT10.

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Tags: advanced persistent threat advanced persistent threats aerospace APT APT10 APTs china Chinese Ministry of State Security construction engineering FireEye MSS PlugX Poison Ivy scanbox sogu telecoms threat actors

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Microsoft Security

January 16, 2019 admin

Step 3. Protect your identities: top 10 actions to secure your environment

Credit to Author: Debbie Seres| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 17:00:18 +0000

The Top 10 actions to secure your environment series outlines fundamental steps you can take with your investment in Microsoft 365 security solutions. In todays installment, Step 3. Protect your identities, youll learn how to define security policies to protect individual user identities against account compromise and protect your administrative accounts.

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January 16, 2019 admin

The evolution of Microsoft Threat Protection, January update

Credit to Author: Debraj Ghosh| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 17:00:16 +0000

Learn about the top feature updates for Microsoft Threat Protection in January.

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Security Sophos

January 16, 2019 admin

Safeguard Encryption “worth checking out” says SC Magazine

Credit to Author: mattcookesophoscom| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 10:32:52 +0000

SC Magazine’s labs team has taken a look at Sophos Safeguard Encryption. We’re delighted to say they scored the product a massive 4.75 out of 5! …adding the extra layer of file security, location-based file encryption and application-based encryption, makes this product worth checking out. You can read the full review here. If you’re looking […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/GWaJe5c_asY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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January 15, 2019 admin

How the government shutdown is influencing cybersecurity jobs

Credit to Author: Kayla Matthews| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 17:16:00 +0000

As of this writing, the government shutdown of 2019 is the longest ever in America. Will the government’s stable of cybersecurity talent be the next casualty—now and in the long run?

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Tags: careers cybersecurity cybersecurity jobs cybersecurity talent DHS furlough government shutdown NIST security certificates US Defense Department