Cyber Security Articles & News

BOOK REVIEW: Phishing in your own Backyard

This week I’ve been reading Kevin Mitnick’s classic book “Ghost in the Wires” on the recommendation of our Senior Director of IT. The book itself is an awesome read, though it’s fair to say the memoirs of Kevin’s social engineering attacks are chilling for anyone tasked with safeguarding patient data.

Hackers Aren’t Trying to Hack Your Systems, They’re Doing this Instead…

t’s easy to assume your company will be safe with security systems in place but this view just won’t cut it against the latest breed of hackers.

FREE COPIES: The Art of Invisibility by Kevin Mitnick

The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data 
by Kevin Mitnick, Robert Vamosi (Co-author) 
Release date: Feb 14, 2017

SEE LIVE: Your Ticket to Los Angeles: HostingCon Joins Forces With Data Center World in 2017 for Networking, Learning, and a Massive Exhibit Hall

Our annual migration to HostingCon Global is upon us. This year, we’re heading to Los Angeles to meet with industry leaders and the teams behind emerging technologies in the hosting, cloud, and service provider industries. As a bonus, HostingCon and Data Center World are happening under the same roof in 2017, bringing together datacenter professionals, hosting providers, hardware and software vendors, and others for four days of networking and learning. Read on to learn how to attend and why you should go. 

SEE LIVE: May 04 : The Art of Invisibility: Kevin Mitnick in Conversation with Jeff Lanza

DESCRIPTION:  This program is made possible through funding from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

The immensities of the Internet in “Lo and Behold”

In her tour, Herzog interviews Internet pioneers like Bob Kahn and Ted Nelson, astronomers who explain the global hecatomb that could cause a solar storm.

Best 16 Cyber Security Books

Best Cyber Security Books - For this post, we have scraped various signals (e.g. online ratings/reviews, topics covered, author influence in the field, year of publication, social media mentions, etc.) for more than 100's Computer Security books from web. We have fed all above signals to a Machine Learning algorithm to compute a score and rank the top books.
The readers will love our list because it is Data-Driven & Objective. Enjoy the list:

CISOs should take security training seriously

Security awareness training is pivotal to your organization’s information security posture, and, now, it’s more important than ever before.

In many ways, security awareness training exemplifies the way information security is seen and tackled by senior management.

KnowBe4 Warns Organizations of Antivirus Giving False Sense of Security

Nearly every organization has some type of concern about ransomware as it continues to hit epic proportions of infections. Profits are soaring for the authors and those spreading it as costs reach $1 billion. Why is it continuing to grow despite precautionary efforts by IT managers?