Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.

Botnet of Infected WordPress Sites Attacking WordPress Sites

This entry was posted in Research, Wordfence, WordPress Security on December 5, 2018

The Defiant Threat Intelligence team recently began tracking the behavior of an organized brute force attack campaign against WordPress sites. This campaign has created a botnet of infected WordPress websites to perform its attacks, which ...

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8
DEC
0

Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, Identity Theft, Web Design, Weekend Update, WordPress

30 Percent of the Dark Web Goes Dark – Who Turned Off The Lights?

I recently started spending time in the Dark Web, learning how to use a VPN and the TOR browser to navigate the hidden services to be found there.  I also have been presenting a “Tour of the Dark Web” to the public in a variety of business groups.  I find the Dark Web to be a fascinating place, and so far the response from people attending my seminar indicates that I am not the only one.  One of the problems ...

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7
DEC
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Computers and Internet, Dark Web

How Do I Get Into Cybersecurity?

As an information technology educator, and cybersecurity trainer, speaker and blogger, I am often asked how to get into a cybersecurity career, or how difficult is it to get into a cybersecurity career.  Here’s what I can tell you.

You will almost in all cases need to start your cybersecurity career in a general information technology role, and work in that capacity for ...

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5
DEC
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certification, education, training

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Getting Certified? Here’s How to Keep Your Certificate Valid

A little blood, sweat, and tears, study, and practice, and amazingly enough you passed the exam and earned your certification.  There used to be a time when a certification was good for life, but these days a certificate is usually valid for only three years.  The good news is that you can maintain your certification with some additional effort on your part.

The theory ...

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3
DEC
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certification, education, training

Sunday Funnies – Genealogy

I have several friends who are genealogists, but it was one of my cybersec pals, Mike Janes, that sent this to me.  Back when I was a teen-ager at summer camp, there was a skit the counselors put on about the “Dover Family” – father Ben Dover, spouse Eileen Dover, the dog Roll Dover.  (by the way, if you remember this skit and can contribute more names, please do, I can’t find it on Google.  What?  Impossible)

Here’s some new material ...

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2
DEC
0

Entertainment, Sunday Funnies

Getting Certified? Here’s How To Pass The Exam

In our last post we focused on preparing for your certification exam.  Today we will address the best techniques for succeeding on exam day. 

  • Schedule Your Exam – Check with your certification authority to see which testing centers they use.  In information technology, this is generally PearsonVue or Prometric.  Go to their website, and create an account.  Then follow the instructions for your certification.  ...
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30
NOV
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certification, education, training

Sunday Funnies – Enormous Michigan Fungus VS World’s Largest Aspen Tree.

What is the biggest plant in the world?  The fungus that ate the UP?  This is the second largest organism in the world, right behind another gigantic fungus in Oregon that covers 3 square miles.  But wait, there’s a quaking aspen grove in Utah that is one large genetic clone organism weighing 13 million pounds and sharing a single root system.   An interesting pair of articles from the Smithsonian.  Fungus vs Continue Reading →

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NOV
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Sunday Funnies

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