Cyber Security Articles & News

The five steps for managing cyber security threats

Cyber security is a people problem more than a technology problem. A single compromised employee, whether malicious or negligent, can render the best systems worthless.

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Hackers Prey on Peoples’ Curiosity, Ignorance

Despite their link to drugs, murder, extortion—you name it–we glamorize old-time organized crime figures like Al Capone, Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano. These gun-toting thugs, donning pin-striped suits and fedoras and smoking the finest Cuban cigars, exuded a certain class and charm despite their wrongdoings.

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Lessons from the World’s Most Famous Hacker

Last week, Kevin Mitnick visited Melbourne as part of a tour. He spoke to an audience of security professionals from a wide range of different industries about his start as a black-hat hacker, i.e. using his skills to break into systems to steal data, through to his present career as a white-hat hacker, i.e. conducting penetration tests for major companies all over the world.

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Cyberattacks – No One Is Beyond Reach

Take a tip from one of the world’s best known hackers, Kevin Mitnick, who for 20 years was on the FBI’s most wanted list until he was caught in 1995 and jailed for five years. Today Mitnick runs a private consulting company that claims a 100 percent successful track record of penetrating the security of any system he is paid to hack.

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Think you can’t be hacked, Virginia? Famous hacker turned consultant Kevin Mitnick says think again

Kevin Mitnick, a famous hacker who went to federal prison in the 1990s, fields questions from the audience at the Virginia Cyber Convention & Expo in Virginia Beach on Oct. 6, 2016. Mitnick now helps companies avoid being hacked, and was the keynote speaker at the expo.

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