Learn how to be an ethical hacker with this $39 in-depth training bundle

It seems like there’s a new data breach every month, and as hackers ramp up their efforts to steal our private info, it’s only natural to feel afraid. What can you do to fight back? Oddly enough, the best way to prevent cybersecurity attacks is by fighting fire with fire. As an ethical hacker, you
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US Sets $5 Million Bounty For Russian Hacker Behind …

Maksim Yakubets and his crew stole tens of millions using Zeus and Dridex, with victims including Bank of America, Key Bank, GenLabs, and United Dairy, DoJ says. The US State Department in collaboration with the US Department of Justice and the FBI Thursday announced an unprecedented $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest
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Why Multifactor Authentication Is Now a Hacker Target

SIM swaps, insecure web design, phishing, and channel-jacking are four ways attackers are circumventing MFA technology, according to the FBI. The growing adoption of multifactor authentication (MFA) has resulted in a proportionate rise in cyberattacks that target MFA technologies. In a recent Private Industry Notification (PIN), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recognized how recent
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This 12-course bundle will teach you how to be an ethical hacker for $39

It seems like there’s a new data breach every month, and as hackers ramp up their efforts to steal our private info, it’s only natural to feel afraid. What can you do to fight back? Oddly enough, the best way to prevent cybersecurity attacks is by fighting fire with fire. As an ethical hacker, you
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Suspected Hacker Group Creates Network of Fake LinkedIn Profiles

Author: Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit™ Threat Intelligence Date: 07 October 2015 Summary While tracking a suspected Iran-based threat group known as Threat Group-2889[1] (TG-2889), Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit™ (CTU) researchers uncovered a network of fake LinkedIn profiles. These convincing profiles form a self-referenced network of seemingly established LinkedIn users. CTU researchers assess with
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How to Think Like a Hacker

In the arms race of computer security, it’s never been more important to develop an adversarial mindset that can identify assumptions and determine if and how they can be violated. Computer security is a very unique field. Unlike other fields in which the challenge is to overcome the scale of a problem or the complexity
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JP Morgan Hacker Pleads Guilty

Russian national Andrei Tyurin, who was extradited to the US last year by Georgian officials for allegedly hacking JP Morgan Chase in 2014 as well as several other cyberattacks on US financial and other organizations, now faces sentencing after a guilty plea in US District Court. Tyurin, 35, was involved in a wide-ranging hacking campaign that targeted
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BRONZE BUTLER Hacker Group Targets Japanese Enterprises

Summary Secureworks® incident responders and Counter Threat Unit™ (CTU) researchers investigated activities associated with the BRONZE BUTLER (also known as Tick) threat group, which likely originates in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). BRONZE BUTLER’s operations suggest a long-standing intent to exfiltrate intellectual property and other confidential data from Japanese organizations. Intrusions observed by CTU™
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Common Hacker Tool Hit with Hackable Vulnerability

Enterprise VulnerabilitiesFrom DHS/US-CERT’s National Vulnerability Database CVE-2018-6339PUBLISHED: 2019-06-14 When receiving calls using WhatsApp on Android, a stack allocation failed to properly account for the amount of data being passed in. An off-by-one error meant that data was written beyond the allocated space on the stack. This issue affects WhatsApp for Android starting in version
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Nation-State Hacker Group Hijacking DNS to Redirect …

‘Sea Turtle’ group has compromised at least 40 national security organizations in 13 countries so far, Cisco Talos says. A sophisticated state-sponsored hacking group is intercepting and redirecting Web and email traffic of targeted organizations in over a dozen countries in a brazen DNS hijacking campaign that has heightened fears over vulnerabilities in the Internet’s
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