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Networks form a critical core for our modern-day society and businesses. People, processes, and technologies should be in place for monitoring, detecting, logging, and preventing malicious activities that occur when an enterprise experiences an attack within or against their networks. Key Takeaways for Control 13 Enterprises should understand that their systems and networks are never perfectly immune to a cyberattack. Enterprises can leverage the safeguards provided by Control 13 to guide the evolution and maturity…

Online is a little different for everyone How do you connect online these days? I’ll give you an example from my own life: From my 15-year old son to my 80-year-old mother, not one of us leaves the house without our phone. And today, there isn’t a single thing you can’t do on your phone. It’s the minicomputer that goes where you go.  This trend in the way we connect is reflected in recent data too. In fact, we’ve found that the average consumer spends 6 hours…

The United States has sent a fourth member of the international hacking group known as The Community to prison. Garrett Endicott of Warrensburg, Missouri, was the last of six defendants to be sentenced in connection with a multi-million-dollar SIM-swapping conspiracy that claimed victims across the country, including in California, Missouri, Michigan, Utah, Texas, New York and Illinois. Endicott, along with 22-year-old Conor Freeman of Dublin, Ireland; Ricky Handschumacher, 28, of Pasco County, Florida; Colton Jurisic, 22, of…

The United States has sent a fourth member of the international hacking group known as The Community to prison. Garrett Endicott, of Warrensburg, Missouri, was the last of six defendants to be sentenced in connection with a multi-million-dollar SIM-swapping conspiracy that claimed victims across the country, including in California, Missouri, Michigan, Utah, Texas, New York and Illinois. Endicott, along with 22-year-old Conor Freeman of Dublin, Ireland; Ricky Handschumacher, 28, of Pasco County, Florida; Colton Jurisic, 22, of…

This won’t replace antivirus software, but it can help you detect problems much more efficiently and allows more customization. Here’s how to install it on Mac, Windows and Linux. Image: djedzura/ iStock A plethora of different tools exist to detect threats to the corporate network. Some of these detections are based on network signatures, while some others are based on files or behavior on the endpoints or on the servers of the company. Most of…

Twitter has altered its privacy rules so that images of individuals that were posted without the subject’s consent can be taken down from its online platform.  The social media company said it was expanding its existing private information policy to include “private media” in a bid to combat cyber-harassment.  News of the policy change came the day after Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey announced that he is stepping down as the company’s chief executive officer. Parag Agrawal, a…

American cybersecurity training advocate, technologist, and entrepreneur Alan Terry Paller has died at the age of 76.  Paller’s death occurred on November 9 at his home in Bethesda, Maryland. His passing was announced by the Bethesda-based SANS Institute, which Paller and his wife, Marsha Mann Paller, founded in 1989. The Institute went on to become one of the world’s leading nongovernment cybersecurity training programs.  Paller was born in Indianapolis on September 17, 1945, to an engineer and a high…