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New LockBit Variant Exploits Self-Spreading Features

News15 Apr 2024

FBI Warns of Massive Toll Services Smishing Scam

News15 Apr 2024

The Feds have received thousands of complaints about phishing texts from fake road toll collection services

Preparing for AR’s Influence on Cybersecurity

Blog12 Apr 2024

Javvad Malik warns AR technologies could become funnels for live cyber-attacks

Apple Boosts Spyware Alerts For Mercenary Attacks

News11 Apr 2024

Data Breach Exposes 300k Taxi Passengers’ Information

News11 Apr 2024

New Android Espionage Campaign Spotted in India and Pakistan

News11 Apr 2024

Threat Actors Game GitHub Search to Spread Malware

News11 Apr 2024

US Data Breach Reports Surge 90% Annually in Q1

News11 Apr 2024

Rhadamanthys Malware Deployed By TA547 Against German Targets

News10 Apr 2024

Women Experience Exclusion Twice as Often as Men in Cybersecurity

News10 Apr 2024

A WiCyS report detailed the causes of disparities in the experiences of women working in cybersecurity compared to men, including respect and exclusion

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Webinars coming up

Uncovering DDoS Vulnerabilities with Simulation Testing: A Case Study

2 May 2024, 15:00 BST , 10:00 EDT

White papers

A Cyber-Hygiene Checklist

White Paper20 Jun 2023

SASE Security Buyers Guide

White Paper26 Jan 2023

How to Evaluate Enterprise Data Protection Solutions

White Paper13 Jan 2023

On-demand webinars

Cracking the Culture Code: Building a Cybersecurity-Aware Workforce
19 Mar 2024 Webinar
How Can the Boardroom Boost Cyber Resilience?
29 Feb 2024 Webinar
Navigating the Cybersecurity Landscape: Reviewing 2023 and Strategies for 2024
12 Dec 2023 Webinar
7 Steps to Building Quantum Resilience
5 Dec 2023 Webinar
Embracing ChatGPT: Unleashing the Benefits of LLMs in Security Operations
14 Sep 2023 Webinar
Don't Take the Bait: Collaborative Intelligence to Build Phishing Resilience
27 Jul 2023 Webinar
Insider Risk: How to Keep Your Data Safe in a Hybrid Working World
13 Jul 2023 Webinar
Countering Today’s Top Email Threats: A Team Effort
29 Jun 2023 Webinar
The Infosecurity Magazine End of Year Xmas Quiz (Feat. The Beer Farmers)
15 Dec 2022 Webinar
Discover Unknown Vulnerabilities with Crowdsourced Security
13 Dec 2022 Webinar

What’s hot on Infosecurity Magazine?

CISA Urges Immediate Credential Reset After Sisense Breach

News12 Apr 2024

Police Swoop on €645m Cannabis Investment Fraud Gang

News15 Apr 2024

How to Backup and Restore Database in SQL Server

Blog27 Mar 2023

Top 10 Cyber-Attacks of 2023

News Feature12 Dec 2023

How to Open and View OST Files Without Outlook

Blog21 Jul 2023

New Android Espionage Campaign Spotted in India and Pakistan

News11 Apr 2024

Why Identity Management is Key in a Cyber Resilience Strategy

News9 Apr 2024

US Data Breach Reports Surge 90% Annually in Q1

News11 Apr 2024

Banning Ransomware Payments Will Do More Harm Than Good

Opinion11 Apr 2024

Palo Alto Networks Warns About Critical Zero-Day in PAN-OS

News12 Apr 2024

Famous YouTube Channels Hacked to Distribute Infostealers

News8 Apr 2024

Hackers Use Malware to Hunt Software Vulnerabilities

News9 Apr 2024

Humans and Machines: Why Strong Identity Security Needs Device Verification and Better User Experience

Webinar11 Apr 2024

Beyond Passwords: Securing the Digital Age with MFA, 2FA, and Passwordless Authentication

Webinar19 Mar 2024

Disinformation Defense: Protecting Businesses from the New Wave of AI-Powered Cyber Threats

Webinar20 Mar 2024

Bouncing Back: Building Organizational Resilience in the Face of Cyber-Attack

Webinar20 Mar 2024

Understand and Combat the Top Healthcare Cloud Threats Today

Webinar21 Mar 2024

Phishing, Impersonation, and Beyond: CISO Insights on 2023-2024 External Threats

Webinar15 Feb 2024

Infosecurity Magazine Spring Online Summit 2024: Day One

Online Summit09:45 GMT, 19 Mar – 15:00 GMT, 20 Mar 2024

Infosecurity Magazine Spring Online Summit 2024: Day Two

Online Summit10:45 – 16:00 EDT, 20 Mar 2024

Russia’s Midnight Blizzard Accesses Microsoft Source Code

News11 Mar 2024

I-Soon GitHub Leak: What Cyber Experts Learned About Chinese Cyber Espionage

News Feature27 Feb 2024

LockBit Takedown: What You Need to Know about Operation Cronos

News26 Feb 2024

Women in Cybersecurity at Infosecurity Europe 2024

Magazine Event16:00 PDT, 4 Jun 2024

Podcasts

Navigating the Cyber Skills Gap, AI for Cybersecurity, and Threat Landscape in 2023
11 Dec 2023 Podcast
The Cybersecurity Skills Gap: How to Bridge the Divide
14 Sep 2023 Podcast
#InfosecurityEurope: What to Expect at This Year’s Event
5 Jun 2023 Podcast
The Team are Joined by Cybersecurity Experts to Review 2022 and How to Prepare Information Security for 2023
14 Dec 2022 Podcast
Hear from CISA’s Deputy Mission Coordinator for Threat Hunting, Jillian Rucker, and payment security expert, Neira Jones.
23 Nov 2022 Podcast
The team looks at some of the Cybersecurity Awareness Month campaigns and other efforts focusing how to thwart phishing, smishing and vishing.
25 Oct 2022 Podcast
Jan Carrol talks to us about her journey into cybersecurity, the cyber-security skills gap and how she set up her company, the Fortify Institute.
11 Oct 2022 Podcast
Beth Maundrill and James Coker analyze Insider Threats as September is National Insider Threats Awareness Month.
27 Sep 2022 Podcast
Ian Murphy, founder of CyberOff, talks about how he uses humor and stand-up to get people engaged with cybersecurity training and cyber awareness.
8 Sep 2022 Podcast
James and Benjamin discuss Infosecurity Magazine's Editor Eleanor Dallaway's departure and review the recent Infosecurity Europe conference in London.
20 Jul 2022 Podcast

US Claims to Have Recovered $1.4bn in COVID Fraud

News10 Apr 2024

Research Unearths RUBYCARP’s Multi-Miner Assault on Crypto

News9 Apr 2024

Foreign Interference Drives Record Surge in IP Theft

News9 Apr 2024

Why Identity Management is Key in a Cyber Resilience Strategy

News9 Apr 2024

Byakugan Infostealer Capabilities Revealed

News8 Apr 2024

Fortinet said the malware functions identified include screen monitoring, screen capturing, cryptomining and more

New Malware “Latrodectus” Linked to IcedID

News8 Apr 2024

UK Retailers Lost £11.3bn to Fraud in 2023

News8 Apr 2024

Research from Ayden and the CEBR found that 35% of UK retailers fell victim to fraudulent activity, cyber-attacks or data leaks over the past 12 months

Hospital IT Helpdesks Targeted By Voice Fraudsters, Warns HHS

News8 Apr 2024

Threat actors are socially engineering healthcare IT helpdesk staff to steal money, the government has warned

China Using AI-Generated Content to Sow Division in US, Microsoft Finds

News5 Apr 2024

Leicester Council Confirms Confidential Documents Leaked in Ransomware Attack

News4 Apr 2024

Events coming up

Infosecurity Europe 2024

Event4 – 6 Jun 2024

Women in Cybersecurity at Infosecurity Europe 2024

Magazine Event16:00 PDT, 4 Jun 2024

Next-gen infosec

How to Prevent Data Leakages

Next-Gen11 Aug 2023

Top Cloud Misconceptions that Could Damage Your Organization

Next-Gen4 Aug 2023

Improve Asset Visibility in OT Security With Hybrid AI-Cloud Approaches

Next-Gen21 Jul 2023