Have you ever heard the cybersecurity term “dictionary attack”, and wondered what it means? You’re not alone. Here, we’ll break down what a dictionary attack is, and explain what steps you should take to protect yourself from this threat.
For the next interview in our series speaking to technical leads from around the world, we’ve welcomed experienced cybersecurity specialist Szilveszter Szebeni, CISO at Tresorit.
The theme for Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022 is “See Yourself in Cyber.” As Cybersecurity Awareness Month comes to a close, CrowdStrike celebrates the many ways human expertise and technology come together to create a stronger defense against adversaries.
The big news this week is that a new CRITICAL OpenSSL vulnerability will be announced on November 1st, 2022. Critical-severity OpenSSL vulnerabilities don’t come along every day – the last was CVE-2016-6309, which ended up only affecting a single version of the software. The more famous vulnerability, known as Heartbleed, came out in 2014. Will this be more like Heartbleed or the vulnerability in 2016? We will soon find out.
At this point, anybody in the IT world would have to be living in a cave in the wilderness to not know that October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. (And since there’s no Wi-Fi in wilderness caves, that scenario is admittedly unlikely.) This week, I wanted to take a closer look at a couple topics, one for work and one at home.
Since March 2020, cloud adoption has accelerated at an unprecedented rate and across every industry. With the pandemic ushering in the work-from-home era, the ability of organizations to collaborate remotely has become paramount, placing a higher-than-ever premium on cloud technology.
Recently, we caught up with Frank Kyazze, Privacy Director here at Kintent, to chat about his experience at the Data Connectors conference in Dallas last month. Frank had the opportunity to serve on the “Protecting Against Cyber Attacks” discussion panel while in attendance. Frank took part in the panel, discussing how now more than ever, it is imperative for organizations to be vigilant against bad actors.
