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A cyber-attack on a city in California has resulted in the exfiltration of personal and financial data belonging to vendors, city employees, and their spouses. A data security incident notice published by the City of Grass Valley states that an unknown attacker was able to access some of the city’s IT systems for four months last year. The city said that the attacker exploited the unauthorized access they enjoyed between April 13 and July 1, 2021, to…

Check Point Research said Africa had the highest amount with an average of 1,582 per week per organization. Here’s how to combat the latest surge in attacks. Image: seksan Mongkhonkhamsao/Moment/Getty Images Cybercriminals enjoyed a banner year in 2021; good news for them but bad news for their victims. For 2021 as a whole, the number of cyberattacks against corporate networks soared by 50% from the previous year, cyber threat intelligence provider Check Point Research said…

In this episode, Curtis Dukes, executive vice president and general manager of the Center for Internet Security (CIS), explains the need for their Community Defense Model. He also details their process for designing their models as a non-profit organization. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5UDKiGLlzxhiGnd6FtvEnmStitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-tripwire-cybersecurity-podcastRSS: https://tripwire.libsyn.com/rssYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgTfY3TXF9YKE9pUKp57pGSTaapTLpvC3 Every cybersecurity practitioner knows that there are some guidelines that are “required reading” in the profession.  Advice that is freely offered by organizations such as the National Institute of Standards and…

Dell Technologies and Cloudera have collaborated to deliver best-in-class solutions for analytics on optimized infrastructure for nearly a decade, since the dawn of the Big Data era. During this time, we have jointly developed numerous solutions for flexible, scalable, and enterprise-class analytics applications based on Cloudera software and Dell EMC infrastructure. These analytic solutions have grown to encompass far more than Apache Hadoop. The modern data platform includes a multitude of capabilities and applications that…

Working with clients on finding vulnerabilities within their cybersecurity frameworks is the key part of a security manager’s job. Here’s how one security auditing manager gets it done. Bryan Hornung, center, is a security auditing manager and CEO of Xact IT Solutions. He helps clients make their systems secure and in compliance with government regulations.  Image: Xact IT Solutions When he was in college at Rider University in New Jersey, Bryan Hornung wanted to…

Email spam is an old problem that many people may have forgotten about or, at least, made peace with. Thanks to improvements in automatic filters from email providers and third-party services, the early 2000′s onslaught of sketchy Viagra offers and promised contest winnings were mostly kept out of sight. The spam waterfall became a leaky faucet, with just a few iffy emails showing up in our inboxes alongside a bunch of legitimate marketing emails that…