The United States issued a seizure warrant to Starlink this week related to satellite internet infrastructure used in a scam compound in Myanmar. The action is part of a larger US law enforcement interagency initiative announced this week called the… Read More "A Major Leak Spills a Chinese Hacking Contractor’s Tools and Targets"
Expand your mind, man. Opsec is really all about time travel—taking small, protective steps now before you have a disaster on your hands later. If you’re not on auto-delete, then an explosive, emotional text exchange with the person you’re currently… Read More "The WIRED Guide to Digital Opsec for Teens"
Amid a government shutdown that has dragged on for more than five weeks, the United States Congressional Budget Office said on Thursday that it recently suffered a hack and moved to contain the breach. CBO provides nonpartisan financial and economic… Read More "The Government Shutdown Is a Ticking Cybersecurity Time Bomb"
As generative AI pushes the speed of software development, it is also enhancing the ability of digital attackers to carry out financially motivated or state-backed hacks. This means that security teams at tech companies have more code than ever to… Read More "Amazon Is Using Specialized AI Agents for Deep Bug Hunting"
Eight years after a researcher warned WhatsApp that it was possible to extract user phone numbers en masse from the Meta-owned app, another team of researchers found that they could still do exactly that using a similar technique. The issue… Read More "US Border Patrol Is Spying on Millions of American Drivers"
Aging digital infrastructure equipment like routers, network switches, and network-attached storage—has long posed a silent risk to organizations. In the short term, it’s cheaper and easier to just leave those boxes running in a forgotten closet. But this infrastructure may… Read More "With the Rise of AI, Cisco Sounds an Urgent Alarm About the Risks of Aging Tech"
In 2011, after months of complaints from residents about the department’s SWAT team—broken TVs, missing cash, lost electronics, even a stolen pornographic video—the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department launched an undercover sting with help from the FBI to root out… Read More "Hack Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List"
Any candidate preparing for cybersecurity or IT security exams will find that knowing about security program operations is important. This area discusses the how of implementation in this regard – where appropriate protective controls and processes are designed, implemented, monitored,… Read More "Overview of Security Program Operations"
Understanding Security Program Management is the essence for those who prepare for cybersecurity or IT security examinations. This discipline would involve a holistic means of managing an organization’s security efforts in that all aspects of risk management, governance, and compliance… Read More "What is Security Program Management?"
An organization is making the best possible efforts to not lose its data and fulfill all the regulations by developing a robust Information Security Program. As I delve more into the cybersecurity field, I found that becoming aware of what… Read More "Information Security Program for Cybersecurity Professionals"
