Security News > 2018 > October > Week in review: Pentagon data breach, cybersecurity workforce gap, who gets spear phished?
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Who gets spear phished, and why? Spear phishing is one of the most successful methods of cyberattack. One countermeasure involves increasing employee awareness about spear phishing through training. This is a good idea, but often these programs focus only on senior executives. In reality, there are other common spear phishing targets within the organization. Solving the cloud infrastructure misconfiguration problem There are … More → The post Week in review: Pentagon data breach, cybersecurity workforce gap, who gets spear phished? appeared first on Help Net Security.
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