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Earning the globally recognized CISSP certification can take your cybersecurity career to new heights. The 2021² Cybersecurity Workforce Study found that participants with at least one cybersecurity certification earned U.S. $33,000 more in average annual salary compared to those without any certifications.
Threat actors are exploiting improperly-secured Google Cloud Platform instances to download cryptocurrency mining software to the compromised systems as well as abusing its infrastructure to install ransomware, stage phishing campaigns, and even generate traffic to YouTube videos for view count manipulation. "While cloud customers continue to face a variety of threats across applications and infrastructure, many successful attacks are due to poor hygiene and a lack of basic control implementation," Google's Cybersecurity Action Team outlined as part of its recent Threat Horizons report published last week.
Australia's government has announced it will compel social media companies to reveal the identities of users who post material considered defamatory. Just how social media companies will be made to identify users was not explained, nor has a bill been posted that would shed light on how the law would operate - but an "Exposure draft" of the law was promised "In the coming week" ahead of a consultation process.
A joint four-month operation coordinated by Interpol, the international criminal police organization, has culminated in the arrests of more than 1,000 cybercriminals and the recovery of $27 million in illicit proceeds. Codenamed "HAECHI-II," the crackdown enabled law enforcement units from across 20 countries, as well as Hong Kong and Macao, close 1,660 cases alongside blocking 2,350 bank accounts linked to the fraudulent illicit funds amassed from a range of online financial crimes, such as romance scams, investment fraud, and money laundering associated with illegal online gambling.
The big feature update is currently available for download as an optional update and if you've already upgraded to the new operating system, you can try some new third-party programs to customize the experience and get the most out of Windows 11. Windows 11 is essentially Windows 10 with a new design, so it also comes with the same bloatware problem.
The big feature update is currently available for download as an optional update and if you've already upgraded to the new operating system, you can try some new third-party programs to customize the experience and get the most out of Windows 11. Windows 11 is essentially Windows 10 with a new design, so it also comes with the same bloatware problem.
GoDaddy breach: SSL keys, sFTP, database passwords of WordPress customers exposedGoDaddy, the popular internet domain registrar and web hosting company, has suffered a data breach that affected over a million of their Managed WordPress customers. Malicious Python packages employ advanced detection evasion techniquesJFrog researchers have discovered 11 malicious Python packages on PyPI, the official third-party package repository for Python, which have been collectively downloaded over 41,000 times.
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Free unofficial patches have been released to protect Windows users from a local privilege escalation zero-day vulnerability in the Mobile Device Management Service impacting Windows 10, version 1809 and later. While Microsoft has most likely also noticed Naceri's June disclosure, the company is yet to patch this LPE bug, exposing Windows 10 systems with the latest November 2021 security updates to attacks.
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