Press Release | May 24, 2023 The National Security Agency (NSA) and partners have identified indicators of compromise (IOCs) associated with a People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber actor using living off the land techniques to target networks across U.S. critical …
Report: Youth Won’t Save Government from Bad Cyber Hygiene
A new survey of government office workers across the world found that “digital natives” — those who grew up with modern technology — are actually more likely than older employees to exhibit bad password habits. Government Technology, March 09, 2023 • News Staff For those who grew up with …
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[Eye Opener] Is Cybercrime the World’s Third Largest Economy After the U.S. and China?
CyberheistNews Vol 13 #05 | January 31st, 2023 Cybersecurity Ventures released a new report that claims cybercrime is going to cost the world $8 trillion in 2023. If it were measured as a country, then cybercrime would be the world's third largest economy after the U.S. and China. The …
A Physicist’s Dive into Photolok, an Innovative Password Replacement System and More …
Source: Paul Sigismondi, Ph.D., is a research physicist and educator. He has a B.S. in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include theoretical astrophysics and quantum field …
[Heads Up] Giant LastPass Breach Can Supercharge Spear Phishing Attacks
Roger Grimes KnowBe4 recommends that everyone use a password manager to create and use strong passwords as a part of their password policy: https://info.knowbe4.com/wp-password-policy-should-be LastPass, one of the world's most popular password managers, recently had a bad data breach as …
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[Heads Up] Top 10 Cyber Security Predictions for Next Year. Read It, This Is a Good One
CyberheistNews Vol 12 #52 | December 28th, 2022 To start off I'm repeating the tradition of my same New Year's wish as a newsletter editor since 1996: "A world without war, crime and insanity, where honest people can flourish, prosper and reach greater heights". At the end of the year I …
