Some companies pretend to provide mining services using a bitcoin mining cloud. They take your money but never mine any bitcoin for you. People often fall for the scam because they want to get their hands on the bitcoin cryptocurrency, and while there are legitimate services out there, some are fraudulent.
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Iranian Hackers Deploy New BugSleep Backdoor in Middle East Cyber Attacks
“These compromised accounts serve as valuable resources, enabling the group to enhance the credibility and effectiveness of their spear-phishing efforts, establish persistence within targeted organizations, and evade detection by blending in with legitimate network traffic.”
‘This happens frequently,’ AARP Alabama warns of Venmo, Cash App scams
Scammers are using payments apps, like Venmo and Cash App, to swipe innocent people’s money. AARP Alabama says there are multiple mobile payment scams going around right now, and one scam takes place directly in your app.
An explanation of CIA triad
The CIA triad — in information security, this means confidentiality, integrity and availability. It’s an organizational model designed to guide policy around storing data and information. And because of the inevitable confusion with the federal government’s CIA, you might also see it as the AIC triad.
How to build an effective DevSecOps team | SC Media
For organizations to succeed while limiting exposure to attacks, leaders need to build a culture that bridges this gap.
Cybersecurity jobs available right now: July 17, 2024 – Help Net Security
As a Cloud Security Engineer, you will enhance and sustain robust security solutions for cloud monitoring, vulnerability remediation, and incident detection to safeguard environments effectively.
Best Practices For Pen Testing
Threat actors are leaping over traditional barriers with ease, demanding sharper defenses for our widening attack surfaces. They are constantly on the move, probing IT infrastructure to identify vulnerable systems – including unpatched endpoints, network misconfigurations, unsecured APIs, and long-forgotten cloud permissions. Keeping up with network changes and closing these security gaps is a never-ending, manual endeavor that saps IT resources, time, and morale. The result: unnecessary security risk. After all, you can’t secure what you don’t know about.
How to Identify and Protect Against Phishing Attacks
Data brokers collect your personal information from various sources and compile detailed profiles. That’s why cybercriminals love data brokers. They hoard your info from everywhere: public records (voter rolls, property ownership), online stuff (browsing history, social media profiles, newsletter signups), and even commercial sources (loyalty programs, purchases). This intel helps them craft compelling and realistic phishing scams or impersonate you or trusted sources to steal private info or money.