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No Sue, I had many security experts in my team. We had heavyweight security even before the internet was a thing. No vulnerabilities would be countenanced and we had regular, audit...

CW@60: An adventure into cyber security

Cyber security expert Rik Ferguson charts an unlikely career from The Hobbit through childhood thespianism to the cutting edge of cyber defence

What is Cloud Security? A Complete Guide | Simplilearn

Multi-factor authentication, an essential security measure that even locks you out of your devices and accounts, isn’t it a remarkable security method? With numerous other methods...

I invited hackers to attack my home server, and the results were a wake-up call

You shouldn't try this at home, but I did. I set up a "honeypot" to see exactly who was knocking on my digital door.

Online Gaming Data Security: What Trusted Platforms Must Get Right

An online gaming account may contain enough information to identify a user, access funds, reconstruct behaviour and target future fraud. Security therefore cannot stop at encryptin...

How I stopped being my parents' emergency IT hotline — The complete list of Windows Security settings I made them fix on...

Windows security and the bad actors who threaten it are constantly evolving, and it's not easy for those who don't live in Windows to keep up. Rather than fixing issues as they pop...

Stop looking for ironclad cybersecurity answers. They often don’t exist

Cybersecurity advice is sometimes extremely straightforward. Your password leaked? Change it. Your PC needs updates? Apply them. You want to install pirated software? Don’t. But...

Secure your digital life across multiple devices

There was a time, not that long ago, when the vast majority of our digital lives were experienced through a single device, usually a PC. These days, that’s no longer the case, as o...

Why Digital Cleanliness Matters

You likely check the locks on your doors before heading to bed every night. You keep your physical valuables tucked away from prying eyes, yet the most sensitive details of your li...

The Evolution of Mac Security. How Integrated Cybersecurity Engines Enhance User Protection

The current digital age requires new approaches to protecting confidential information. One of the most common devices among users is Macs. They have long been popular for their st...

The next cybersecurity battleground is inside the processor

Cybersecurity has a location problem. Attackers often exploit vulnerabilities in systems that businesses have spent years protecting with software, yet the processor at the center...

The Cybersecurity Control Money Can’t Buy

You can spend a fortune making the locks on your doors stronger. But if someone can convince an employee to hand over the key, those locks suddenly matter a lot less. The post The...

Tech Time Warp: 1994 Citibank Heist Yet Another Reminder to Keep Credentials Secure

The bank heists of Hollywood are glamorous: all-black clothes, darting around lasers, and — in modern cinema — genius hackers with incredible programming skills. But one of the fir...

ThreatsDay: Odysseus RCE, Samsung One-Click Takeover, iCloud Backdoor Fight + 27 More Stories

Apparently, opening the thing is now enough. A repo can run before the first prompt, a package can hide among hundreds, and a harmless-looking PDF can finish the job. This week ru...

Closing the Identity Gaps in Critical Infrastructure Security

Critical infrastructure attacks often begin with stolen credentials, compromised devices, or trusted accounts. Specops Software explains why Zero Trust should verify both user iden...

Cybersecurity for Everyday Users: Small Habits. Real Protection

Most people think cybersecurity is a problem for banks,big corporations and IT departments. In reality the average person is the most…Continue reading on Medium »

ThreatsDay: AI-Powered Hacking, 370 Chrome Flaws, SonicWall Attacks, DNS Hijacking + 22 More Stories

A lot of security still comes down to trusting the wrong screen. This week, that screen might be a login page, an install guide, a recruiter call, or a familiar service behaving s...

The Network Has Become the Control Plane for AI Security

Network firewalls are the workhorses of modern cybersecurity. They are trusted to protect the network, blocking malicious traffic and preventing intrusions and breaches. And for de...

ThreatsDay: Game Cheat Spyware, 24-Hour Ransomware, Chrome Sync Stalking + 12 More Stories

A lot of this week’s trouble starts with something that looks close enough. A familiar repo. A useful installer. A harmless sync setting. Then the handoff goes bad, the box starts...

Enterprise Mobile Security: Strategies Every Modern Organization Must Adopt

Not long ago, keeping corporate data secure meant locking down a building, controlling who had network access, and making sure nobody plugged a dodgy USB into a company machine. Th...

How AI Exposed a Browser Security Gap that Enterprises Cannot Ignore

AI did not create a new browser security problem. It exposed one that enterprises have long been able to ignore. Skyhigh Security explains why browsers have become a critical contr...

Linux Security Hardening for AI Training and Inference Servers

Roughly 175,000 AI inference servers sit on the open internet with no password, handing strangers your model weights, your API keys, and your GPUs. Here is how to harden a Linux AI...

New Backdoors Let Hackers Keylog, Steal Passwords and Control Government Computers

Government networks in Central Asia have been hit by two custom-built backdoors that give intruders deep control over infected computers. Known as OctLurk and SilkLurk, the tools c...