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Panaseer announces that it has appointed a new CEO to focus on international growth of the emerging CCM security category, which has fuelled Panaseer's growth of 350% in 2020. Jonathan Gill succeeds Nik Whitfield, founder of Panaseer, who will now take on the role of Chairman and maintain an active role in the company as Chief Seer.
This post will take a closer look at the NIST password guidelines and see how you can effectively audit your password policies to ensure these meet the standards recommended by NIST. NIST Password Guidelines and Best Practices. According to NIST recommended password guidelines, this policy would not align with the NIST standard.
We'll guide you through the process of using Homebrew package manager to install security tools on macOS to exploit vulnerabilities found in your Apple equipment. In this follow-up to the installing security tools on macOS via Homebrew series, we'll be looking at various applications that can be used to exploit any vulnerabilities that have been found after performing an assessment using scanning tools to determine what-if any-issues exist.
President-elect Joe Biden has reportedly tapped the National Security Agency's cybersecurity director to serve in a brand-new cyber-role on his National Security Council. Sources told Politico that Neuberger will thus be in charge of coordinating cybersecurity across the federal government's agencies and departments.
F5 Networks announced on Thursday that it has agreed to acquire Volterra, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based provider of tools that help customers deploy applications and build clouds across multiple cloud providers or their own edge locations. Under the terms of the agreement, F5 will pay roughly $440 million in cash and approximately $60 million in deferred incentive compensation to Volterra's founders and employees.
In all, Nvidia patched flaws tied to 16 CVEs across its graphics drivers and vGPU software, in its first security update of 2021. Nvidia, which makes gaming-friendly graphics processing units, on Thursday fixed a slew of high-severity flaws affecting its graphics driver.
We'll guide you through the process of using Homebrew package manager to install security tools on macOS to assess vulnerabilities and the security posture of the devices on your network. Some tools may be used to obtain vulnerability information from generic devices, while other tools are suited only to identify specific vulnerabilities related to certain types of applications and services, such as web servers, for example.
According to the skills report, the fastest-growing cybersecurity skill in 2021 is application development security. SEE: How to become a cybersecurity pro: A cheat sheet.
Like countless others, I frittered away the better part of Jan. 6 doomscrolling and watching television coverage of the horrifying events unfolding in our nation's capital, where a mob of President Trump supporters and QAnon conspiracy theorists was incited to lay siege to the U.S. Capitol. Many have speculated that Jim Watkins, the administrator of the online message board 8chan, and/or his son Ron are in fact "Q," the anonymous persona behind the QAnon conspiracy theory, which holds that President Trump is secretly working to save the world from a satanic cult of pedophiles and cannibals.
The FBI has announced that Christopher Dobbins pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year in prison for breaching and temporarily disabling the Stradis Healthcare shipping system using a secret account, after being fired weeks earlier. Last March, as doctors reported having to ration and reuse personal protective equipment to treat COVID-19 patients, Georgia-based Stradis Healthcare, which packages and ships PPE and surgical kits, was eager to step up and help, according to FBI Special Agent Roderick Coffin, who investigated the matter.