The Challenge with Logs If you consider your time working with technology, reviewing log files must be one of the most daunting tasks. It certainly is for me, line after line of output messages, that may or may not be readable to a human being, searching for the few words, which hopefully bring clarity to a deployment failure, or a production outage.   For troubleshooting success, you must rely on a few characteristics of those logs to be present:  Consistent timestamps  Log Level identification …

In the hands of a thief, your Social Security Number is the master key to your identity.  With a Social Security Number (SSN), a thief can unlock everything from credit history and credit line to tax refunds and medical care. In extreme cases, thieves can use it to impersonate others. So, if you suspect your number is lost or stolen, it’s important to report identity theft to Social Security right away.  Part of what makes an SSN so powerful in identity theft is that there’s only one like it. Unlike a compromised credit card, you can’t…

In the hands of a thief, your Social Security Number is the master key to your identity.  With a Social Security Number (SSN), a thief can unlock everything from credit history and credit line to tax refunds and medical care. In extreme cases, thieves can use it to impersonate others. So, if you suspect your number is lost or stolen, it’s important to report identity theft to Social Security right away.  Part of what makes an SSN so powerful in identity theft is that there’s only one like it. Unlike a compromised credit card, you can’t…

Managing passwords and privileged access is bad enough for people—but that’s going to be dwarfed by the problem of dealing with non-human identities. Image: Shutterstock/sitthiphong How many cloud services, APIs, virtual machines and containers is your organization using? Whatever number you just thought of, you should probably double it—or add a zero at the end. The number of non-human identities is vast and it’s only going up. The entities that use those identities are dynamic—and…

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The need for experienced and qualified cyber security professionals is a highlight of Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week, led by NICE (National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education). This campaign is part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2021, which is focused on empowering individuals and organisations to “own their role in protecting their part of cyberspace”. UK skills gap The UK government’s Cyber security skills in the UK labour market 2021 report estimates that approximately 680,000 UK businesses (50%…

Researchers have discovered new multi-function malware abusing the core functions of popular group app platform Discord. Check Point explained in a blog post this morning that it found several malicious GitHub repositories featuring malware based on the Discord API and malicious bots. It included various features, including keylogging, taking screenshots and executing files. Discord bots help users automate tasks on the Discord server. However, they can also be used for malicious ends, the researchers warned….