Tool shows what bad bot traffic ‘sounds’ like. Is there a practical application?
“Botronica” translates human bot traffic into sounds as a creative way to generate awareness of malicious bot activity.
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Breach alerts dismissed as junk? New guide for sending vital emails may help
The SolarWinds supply chain attack will likely prompt scores of compromised companies to send critical data breach notifications to their customers. But steps may be required to ensure these and other critical messages don’t get ignored, bounced or quarantined.
New ISAC for K-12 school districts fills a key cyber intelligence gap
Clobbered by cybercriminals, local school districts have lacked an outlet for sharing cyber threat info that’s relevant only to them.
Companies rarely subject cyber job candidates to tests or sims before hiring
Interviewing infosec job applicants without also assessing their skills could result in unqualified hires, or worse.
In wake of SolarWinds hack, here are the critical responses required of all businesses
SolarWinds customers – over 300,000 of them, including most of the Fortune 500 – must determine what was breached, mitigate the damage before using the software again, and explore new supply chain safeguards.
Skimmers hide in social media buttons and CSS files, but the next big threat lies with the server
Happy shopping: Beyond standard skimming techniques that focus on the client-side, attackers are increasingly focusing on back-end applications.
Phishing campaign spoofs Microsoft domain. Is lack of DMARC enforcement to blame?
Researchers observed a spear phishing campaign that exactly spoofed a Microsoft email domain to trick Office 365 users. This suggests Microsoft’s servers were not enforcing protective DMARC authentication protocols when communications were received – and perhaps still are not.
New Gula Tech Foundation pledges to award millions in grants to cyber nonprofits
In an interview with SC Media, the former leaders and founders of Tenable explained why they believe cybersecurity nonprofits have long been overlooked for funding, despite playing a key role in creating a more secure world.
Google discovers exploit devised to steal iPhone data remotely, without user interaction
It’s rare to find a single vulnerability that doesn’t need to be chained with other bugs in order to take over a device.
BEC scammers leverage email auto-forward rules to intersect financial transactions
According to the alert, scammers who are able to obtain and compromise the email credentials of an employee can then alter the auto-forwarding rules of the victim’s web-based client to send any inbound communications to their own attacker-controlled email addresses.
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