With cybersecurity issues, it’s especially important that users understand the information provided by IT and leadership. Here are tips on dealing with the “curse of knowledge.” Image: iStockphoto/fizkes The curse of knowledge is a well-known concept to those steeped in psychology, but likely unfamiliar to the rest of us. That’s too bad, as not understanding what it means and how it affects us can lead to lapses in a company’s cybersecurity. We may not know…

At Microsoft Build in the first half of the year, Microsoft demonstrated some awesome new capabilities and improvements that were coming to Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 including the ability to share the host machine’s GPU with WSL 2 processes. Then in June Craig Loewen from Microsoft announced that developers working on the Windows insider ring machines could now make use of GPU for the Linux workloads. This support for NVIDIA CUDA enabled developers and…

By Milica D. Djekic It appears that today’s world landscape is under constant and chronical attack of security challenges. There is no time in history that was easy and it’s obvious why the modern days are tough as well. On the surface, the situation can seem well-balanced and manageable, but it takes a lot of effort to maintain the stuff being normal at least from the public’s point of view. The security career is hard…

We’ve previously discussed best practices for securing Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services but, this time, we are going to turn our attention to Google Cloud Platform. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is growing at an impressive 83 percent year over year but generally receives less focus than AWS and Azure. We can use some of our best practice cloud security knowledge to outline some fundamental steps for keeping Google Cloud Platform secure. 1. Identity and Access Management A general rule of thumb is to use…

The price of stolen credit card details and cybercrime tools has in many cases seen triple-digit growth over the past two years, according to new dark web research compiled by Flashpoint. The risk intelligence firm trawled some of the more established cybercrime marketplaces across the deep and dark web, across eight categories: from government-issued IDs to DDoS-for-hire services, exploit kits, RDP server access and “fullz.” The cost of credit card dumps soared 225%, from $12.44…

The US Senate has unanimously passed a new bipartisan bill designed to punish foreign firms that actively seek to steal American intellectual property (IP). Co-authored by senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Sasse, the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act will allow the authorities to place sanctions on firms and individuals associated with such activity. It will require a report to Congress every six months identifying any individual or firm that has engaged in or benefitted…