Tag: throwback thursday
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Throwback Thursday: Adjust Your Attitude!
At the VB2016 conference in Denver earlier this year, ESET researcher Stephen Cobb spoke about the cybersecurity skills shortage, providing an overview of existing efforts to assess cyber-aptitude and ability, and looking at the results of a number of experimental fast-track cybersecurity training programmes. He also reviewed the scant existing studies of the personality traits of information…
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Throwback Thursday: Adjust Your Attitude!
At the VB2016 conference in Denver earlier this year, ESET researcher Stephen Cobb spoke about the cybersecurity skills shortage, providing an overview of existing efforts to assess cyber-aptitude and ability, and looking at the results of a number of experimental fast-track cybersecurity training programmes. He also reviewed the scant existing studies of the personality traits of information…
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Throwback Thursday: The Politics of Anti-Virus
The United States has a new president-elect, and now both the citizens of the US and the rest of the world wait with bated breath to find out what changes the Trump presidency will bring. In his campaigning, President-Elect Trump made a number of references to cybersecurity, promising that he would make cybersecurity a top…
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Throwback Thursday: The Politics of Anti-Virus
The United States has a new president-elect, and now both the citizens of the US and the rest of the world wait with bated breath to find out what changes the Trump presidency will bring. In his campaigning, President-Elect Trump made a number of references to cybersecurity, promising that he would make cybersecurity a top…
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Throwback Thursday: Olympic Games
As the world of sport awaits the official opening of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio tomorrow, any talk of viruses is restricted to concerns surrounding the mosquito-borne, human-infecting Zika virus , with numerous athletes having withdrawn from the Games over infection fears and experts calling for the Games to be moved, while others have…
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Throwback Thursday: Olympic Games
As the world of sport awaits the official opening of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio tomorrow, any talk of viruses is restricted to concerns surrounding the mosquito-borne, human-infecting Zika virus , with numerous athletes having withdrawn from the Games over infection fears and experts calling for the Games to be moved, while others have…
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Throwback Thursday: Holding the Bady
Last week saw the 15th anniversary of the appearance of ‘Code Red’ (also known as ‘Bady’) – the first fileless worm, which spread by exploiting a vulnerability in Microsoft IIS, even penetrating Microsoft’s own IIS servers. Part of the worm’s payload was to launch denial of service attacks against a number of fixed IP addresses –…
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Throwback Thursday: Holding the Bady
Last week saw the 15th anniversary of the appearance of ‘Code Red’ (also known as ‘Bady’) – the first fileless worm, which spread by exploiting a vulnerability in Microsoft IIS, even penetrating Microsoft’s own IIS servers. Part of the worm’s payload was to launch denial of service attacks against a number of fixed IP addresses –…