Anomali’s Mark Alba Joins ‘Down the Security Rabbithole’ Host Rafal Los to Decipher the Hype and Discuss How Detection Innovations Like Threat Intel and MITRE ATT&CK Are Critical to Success    If you are in the cybersecurity industry, you’ve heard plenty about Extended Detection and Response (XDR). Some recognize XDR as an important advancement that will strengthen security postures, others are confused by it. One thing is now certain, it’s not just another buzzword. XDR…

You don’t have to blow your budget or spend a lot of time going back to school to train for a new career, when you can learn all you need to know to fight cybercrime from a handful of courses. Image: BeeBright/Shutterstock It’s a really sad state of affairs when even the FBI is hacked. But it goes to show that cybersecurity skills have never been more in demand, and that doesn’t look like it…

A political activist and former star of the reality TV show 19 Kids and Counting has been convicted of two charges relating to the sexual abuse of children. On Thursday, after a six-day trial that featured ten witnesses, a jury found Josh Duggar guilty of one count of receiving CSAM and one count of possessing CSAM. It took the jury just under seven hours of deliberation to reach its verdict. The 33-year-old married father of seven now faces a maximum prison…

Cyberattackers use artificial intelligence, so why not apply it as a defense? One expert explains why AI can take your cybersecurity to the next level of protection. Image: iStockPhoto/maxkabakov In any debate, there are always at least two sides. That reasoning also applies to whether or not it is a good idea to use artificial intelligence technology to try stemming the advantages of cybercriminals who are already using AI to improve their success ratio.  SEE:…

US military network-security researchers have launched a new program to discover more about the tactics of malicious hackers. The Signature Management Using Operational Knowledge and Environments (SMOKE) program was announced on Tuesday in a broad agency statement put out by officials at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Virginia. Signatures are patterns that describe the way in which an organization performs cyber operations. SMOKE is asking the computer industry to develop methods…

We all know the frustration. A new piece of tech isn’t working the way it should. Or maybe setting it up is simply turning into a royal pain. Grrr, right? Just make sure that when you go on the hunt for some help, you don’t let a tech support scam get the better of you.   Like so many scams out there, tech support scams play on people’s emotions. Specifically, the frustration you feel when things don’t work right. You want that problem fixed right now. So much so that you may not pay close enough…

We all know the frustration. A new piece of tech isn’t working the way it should. Or maybe setting it up is simply turning into a royal pain. Grrr, right? Just make sure that when you go on the hunt for some help, you don’t let a tech support scam get the better of you.   Like so many scams out there, tech support scams play on people’s emotions. Specifically, the frustration you feel when things don’t work right. You want that problem fixed right now. So much so that you may not pay close enough…