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By Bob Weiss
The new A+ exams will be released on April 20th, and the current A+ exams will be retiring six months later on October 20th. To all those still studying for the 1000 series, you have almost 6 months left before the current exam retires.
Every time the exams change, about once every three years, there is a flurry of concern ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.If you try to hide that your business has been hacked or you’ve paid ransomware, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency would like a word with you.
One of the dirty little secrets of many businesses, perhaps even most, is that far more of them than ever admit to it ...
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Catch of the Day: Wells Fargo Smish
Chef’s Special: Current Events Phish
Examples of clever phish that made it past my spam filters and into my Inbox, or from clients, or reliable sources on the Internet.
I would be delighted to accept suspicious phishing examples from you. Please forward your email to phish@wyzguys.com.
My intention ...
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Beginning June 1, 2022, additional pretest items and time will be added to the CISSP exam for the Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) format.
The current CISSP CAT exam contains 25 pretest (unscored) items. The addition of 25 more items will bring the total count to 50 pretest items. With these added items, the minimum and maximum ...
Continue Reading →As many of you know, I teach a number of information security certification classes, especially the (ISC)2 CISSP certification. Almost a year ago the (ISC)2 update the course content and questions for the CISSP. Students that I have taught since then have started taking and passing the new exam, and here are some of their comments.
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By Bob Weiss
CISA issued a bulletin last week (see below) about Russian capabilities to attack the US energy sector. I have been warning about this danger since 2016, when I read Ted Koppel’s book Lights Out. The timeframe of the current alert (2011 to 2018) coincides with the Obama/Biden Administration, interestingly enough. Not the Trump administration though ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.A report on Chinese nation-state cyber operations targeting Ukraine in support of the Russian invasion.
This detailed report includes TTPs and IOCs of this operation,
Catch of the Day: Password Phishing Site
Chef’s Special: Email Vishing
Examples of clever phish that made it past my spam filters and into my Inbox, or from clients, or reliable sources on the Internet.
I would be delighted to accept suspicious phishing examples from you. Please forward your email to phish@wyzguys.com.
My intention is to provide a warning, examples ...
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