Security News > 2020 > November > 2020's biggest innovators? Hackers and cyber-criminals, again, says Darktrace

That group is the hacker and cyber attacker fraternity, which has spotted that the sudden switch to remote working arrangements has delivered them a much wider attack surface to target, while security pros are stretched thinner than ever.

By thinking like them before you start to fight back, which is what we'll be showing you how to do in our webcast How I'd Attack You, on November 18 at 0900 PT. The Register's own one-man attack surface Tim Phillips will be joined by Dan Fein and Mariana Pereira of cyber defence specialists Darktrace.

They'll show how cyber crims have finessed their reconnaissance techniques, taking full advantage of email, social media and implicit profiling, to prepare the ground for highly targeted, and effective, attacks using fearware and payloadless emails.

If that's only increasing your own fear levels, don't worry, as they'll be talking you through the defensive techniques that can blunt the attackers' best efforts.

Darktrace emerged from a collaboration between Cambridge mathematicians and cyber security experts with government intelligence backgrounds, and its AI powered security tools are used by government departments, enterprises, and even Premiership football teams.

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