A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.We’ve been tracking US-CERT and CISA alerts for years, and this is some of the most urgent language we’ve seen used. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a special bulletin on February 8, titled, CISA Strongly Urges All Organizations to Immediately Address Microsoft Exchange Vulnerabilities. It warned: “As ...
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Catch of the Day: Kaspersky 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 of current phishing scams, ...
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Attending a CISSP certification bootcamp should be the final step in your preparation for taking and passing this highly sought and often required cybersecurity certification exam. How should you prepare for the bootcamp itself?
I teach about three CISSP bootcamps a month. A bootcamp is a full time, eight hour per day, 5 or 6 day exam cram experience. It is drinking from ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Original release date: March 10, 2021
CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have released a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to address recently disclosed vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server. CISA and FBI assess that adversaries could exploit these vulnerabilities to compromise networks, ...
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Chef’s Special: Intuit 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 is to provide a warning, ...
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As an instructor for the CompTIA CySA+ CS0-002 exam, I like to receive feedback from students who have taken the test, and I collect those comments here, for other students to use a preparatory material. I have done this previously for the CISSP exam. This one is dedicated to the Cybersecurity Analyst certification.
First, there is a great CompTIA certification ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.You may have missed this extremely interesting bit of data that ZDNet just published. “Microsoft reckons that the huge attack on security vendors and more took the combined power of at least 1,000 engineers to create.
“The months-long hacking campaign that affected US government agencies and cybersecurity vendors ...
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