UAB's master's in cybersecurity named best in the country by Fortune – University of Alabama at Birmingham

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

A New Era Is Dawning in Cybersecurity, but Only the Best … – Dark Reading

In the wake of increasing concern about threat actors using open source AI tools like ChatGPT to launch sophisticated cyberattacks at scale, it’s time for us to reconsider how AI is being leveraged on the defensive side to fend off these threats.Ten years ago, cybersecurity was a different ball game. Threat detection tools typically relied … Read more

Cyber attack leaves 6 NC counties locked out of their online records – WRAL News

They’re responsible for keeping and protecting your most important records, but Thursday, a company that works with local governments across North Carolina has been paralyzed by a cyber attack with no end in sight. They’re responsible for keeping and protecting your most important records.But Thursday, a company that works with local governments across North Carolina … Read more

I Can Have a Future – TCC News – Tarrant County College District

Mohamed Yahia’s recipe for getting to the United States to study cyber security consisted of equal measures of determination, ambition, and courage plus a huge dollop of luck.One important piece – knowledge of English – was missing. “Couldn’t speak. Couldn’t write. Couldn’t communicate,” he said. “It was very hard.”TCC Southeast could fix that, but first … Read more

US Navy releases cybersecurity goals for 2023 – Security Magazine

Image via PixabayThe Department of the Navy (DON) announced their cybersecurity goals, the Information Superiority Vision (ISV) Campaign Plan, on Dec. 1. The plan is for the fiscal year 2023 (FY 23) and can help highlight a variety of ways in which security leaders can build onto preexisting systems to improve their protection. The ISV, published … Read more

12 Social Engineering Statistics That Will Make You Question … – Hashed Out by The SSL Store™

The most informative cyber security blog on the internet!Social engineering describes how cybercriminals try to “hack” the people within your organization instead of the technology. This approach is all about using psychological tactics to get people to do something they normally wouldn’t or share information they shouldn’t. Social engineering can be used to get you … Read more

Cybercriminals Using Polyglot Files in Malware Distribution to Fly … – The Hacker News

Remote access trojans such as StrRAT and Ratty are being distributed as a combination of polyglot and malicious Java archive (JAR) files, once again highlighting how threat actors are continuously finding new ways to fly under the radar.“Attackers now use the polyglot technique to confuse security solutions that don’t properly validate the JAR file format,” … Read more