Fortune ranked the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s in-person master’s degree in cybersecurity as the No. 1 program in the country. According to Fortune, there are nearly 770,000 cybersecurity job openings in the United States. “We are proud to be recognized for academic excellence by Fortune and named the nation’s leading institution for graduate studies … Read more
In 2022, state-sponsored cyber activity has been drawn into sharp focus, ransomware continued to dominate as the primary threat facing organizations, and there have been several highly publicized incidents. Beyond the headlines, there have been some interesting shifts in both tools and tactics of cyber adversaries.What can we learn from the past 12 months as … Read more
Industrial control systems are the backbone for some of society’s most critical services — water, power and natural gas, to mention a few. A successful cyber attack on any of these systems poses severe economic, social and political ramifications.Let’s look at some of the top challenges and threats facing ICSes today and examine how to … Read more
IT Burnout may be Putting Your Organization at Risk BleepingComputersource
On Tuesday, January 17, the Pepperdine School of Public Policy, in partnership with the Heritage Foundation, hosted a panel discussion called Cybersecurity and the Quad: Opportunities and Challenges Abound as part of a three-day conference titled “Connected and Secure in the Indo-Pacific: Challenges, Threats, and Opportunities for Quad Cyber Security.” Kiron Skinner, the Taube Professor … Read more
In the Fight Against Scams, ‘Cyber Ambassadors’ Enter the Chat WIREDsource
June 19-22, 2023This 4-day workshop is for social scientists and legal scholars working on cybersecurity policy. Its intent is to provide an introduction to the technical aspects of cybersecurity, including hardware, software, networking, and cryptography. This will be from both, a hands-on, practical perspective, as well as a theoretical one. Participants will learn not only … Read more
The report shows cybersecurity risk has been elevated to the most senior levels of corporations around the world. The potential threat of ransomware and data breaches has gained the attention of worldwide corporations. Companies confront the potential loss of control over customer data or proprietary customer secrets, and the impact of an attack on their brand … Read more
Japan is in the midst of a critical defense transformation as the country looks to expand its defenses in the face of growing global threats, most specifically from neighbor China. Last week Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kushida met with President Joe Biden to discuss export controls and other security measures to help Japan and … Read more
The growing use of mobile devices for multifactor authentication increasingly has made telecom providers a juicy target for cybercrime. An ongoing SIM card-swapping campaign by a Chinese threat actor called “Scattered Spider” is just the latest example of that trend.Scattered Spider is an APT group that researchers from CrowdStrike have been tracking for the past … Read more