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Do your employees feel valued? 64% have one foot out the door

The estimated current cybersecurity workforce is 2.8 million professionals, while the amount of additional trained staff needed to close the skills gap is 4.07 million …

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Now available: eSentire’s 2019 Annual Threat Intelligence Report

Recently released, eSentire’s 2019 Threat Intelligence Report: Perspectives from 2019 and Predictions for 2020 provides visuals, data and written analysis, as well as …

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Week in review: UN hacked, new Kali Linux release, Win7 upgrade dilemma

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Kali Linux 2020.1 released: New tools, Kali NetHunter rootless, and more! Offensive …

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Make your own security key with Google’s OpenSK

Google has open-sourced OpenSK, firmware that, combined with an affordable chip dongle, allows you to make your own security key to use for authentication purposes. About …

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Microsoft invites gamers and researchers to new Xbox bug bounty program

Gamers, security researchers, and technologists have been invited to identify security vulnerabilities in Xbox network and services and report them to Microsoft. Bounty …

Swimlane
New infosec products of the week: January 31, 2020

Swimlane 10.0: Reducing mean time to detect and response for security incidents The newest release has yielded up to 35X performance improvement in alarm ingestion rates and …

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Secure 5G networks: EU toolbox of risk mitigating measures

EU Member States have identified risks and vulnerabilities at national level and published a joint EU risk assessment. Through the toolbox, the Member States are committing to …

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93% of attempted mobile transactions in 2019 were fraudulent

93 percent of total mobile transactions in 20 countries were blocked as fraudulent in 2019 according to a report on the state of malware and mobile ad fraud released by …

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Researchers develop new optical stealth encryption technology

The first all optical stealth encryption technology that will be significantly more secure and private for highly sensitive cloud-computing and data center network …

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68% of organizations were victims of endpoint attacks in 2019

Organizations are not making progress in reducing their endpoint security risk, especially against new and unknown threats, a Ponemon Institute study reveals. 68% IT security …

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UN hacked: Attackers got in via SharePoint vulnerability

In summer 2019, hackers broke into over 40 (and possibly more) UN servers in offices in Geneva and Vienna and downloaded “sensitive data that could have far-reaching …

Cybertech Tel Aviv 2020
Photos: Cybertech Global Tel Aviv 2020

Cybertech Global Tel Aviv is one of the largest B2B networking events in the cyber industry, outside of the United States. Every year, the event attracts thousands of …

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