A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
Symantec SSL Certificates No Longer Secure
If you have a Symantec certificate on your HTTPS website, Chrome 70 and Firefox 63 will both be disowning any web certificates signed by Symantec. From this month forward, anyone with Chrome or Firefox who browses to a web page “secured” with a Symantec certificate will see an unequivocal warning insisting that the site is insecure. Change your now. Or suffer the lost traffic.
Apple and Amazon hacked by China? Here’s what to do (even if it’s not true)
Are major US companies really under attack from Chinese “zombie microchips”? Personally, I’m not remotely surprised, I’ve been predicting this for years. Still think it is possible. What should we do, whether it’s true or not?
Fake News? Apple Demands Retraction Of Bloomberg’s Big Chinese ‘Chip Infiltration’ Story
Apple has done something it’s never done before: asked Bloomberg for a retraction of the article.
National Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Careers in Cybersecurity
10/09/2018 07:06 AM EDT Original release date: October 09, 2018
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, an annual campaign to raise awareness about cybersecurity. The month’s themes educate students and professionals about cybersecurity attack methods, best practices, and preventive measures and are geared toward informing the next generation of cybersecurity professionals. It is critical that today’s students graduate ready to enter the workforce and are open to learning more about the growing field of cybersecurity.
NCCIC encourages interested candidates to review the following resources for information on cybersecurity employment opportunities:
- Stop.Think.Connect. Cyber Tips for Young Professionals,
- DHS cybersecurity careers,
- Federal cybersecurity careers, and
- Civil Service job opportunities.
The top 10 cyberthreats IT security teams are facing right now
Some 70% of organizations experienced a security breach in the past year, according to a report from Cyren and Osterman Research.
Why Microsoft’s Linux love affair was inevitable
As a developer-focused company, it was only a matter of time before Microsoft learned to love Linux and open source.
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