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TLDR: H.E. Leon Williams, ITU Ambassador, visited the Urban Renewal Boot Camp and encouraged participants to pursue careers in cybersecurity. Williams highlighted the growing demand for qualified cybersecurity professionals and urged the

The Network Resilience Coalition (NRC) has issued recommendations for better network and software security to reduce vulnerabilities. The NRC, comprised of companies such as AT&T, Cisco, Intel, Palo Alto Networks, and Verizon,

TLDR: Chandler City Council approved an 11-item consent agenda during a 14-minute meeting on January 25. One of the items on the agenda was a staff report detailing a $242,000 cybersecurity “incident,”

TLDR: Nearly 80,000 municipality and public school district employees in Massachusetts will receive cyberattack prevention training under the state’s new Municipal Cybersecurity Awareness Grant Program. The program, managed by the Office of

The key points of this article are: Hackers are becoming more sophisticated in their attempts to access personal information. A viewer reported a scam where a fake Windows Defender screen appeared, prompting

TLDR: North Korean hackers have been found using generative AI for planning purposes and not for conducting cyberattacks. South Korea’s intelligence service plans to closely monitor North Korea’s use of generative AI

TLDR: Richmond Community College has been designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education (CAE-CD) by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Cyber hackers more than doubled their global attack attempts in 2023, with the biggest jump in attacks on utilities (200% increase) and manufacturing (165% increase), according to a report by Armis, a

TL;DR: Lovelace Health System’s parent company, Ardent Health Services, is notifying nearly 1,000 patients whose personal information was accessed or stolen in a cyber attack that occurred on Thanksgiving. The attack, a

TLDR: Microsoft has released new guidance for organizations on how to protect against persistent nation-state attacks like the one disclosed a few days ago that infiltrated its own corporate email system. The