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09 Aug Weekly Rundown: Ransomware Shuts Down Factory, Black Hat Trends, Girl Scouts on Cyber
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News and resources to keep you on the cutting edge of cybersecurity
– Kerry Morgan, Cybercrime Reporter
Northport, N.Y. — Aug. 9, 2018
THIS WEEK
- Cisco acquires Duo Security for $2.35 billion to advance their cloud computing operations.
- New BlackBerry Workspaces platform features ransomware recovery capability that can help businesses more quickly recover from an attack.
- Ransomware attack on iPhone chip manufacturer causes factory shut down.
- Security bugs put health records of 100 million patients at risk.
- Why the U.S. should shift focus from cyber espionage to cybercrime.
- What ransomware really costs — all expenses included.
- Rapid7 penetration testing finds numerous software flaws in companies — in 84 percent of tests, pen testers exploited at least one vulnerability.
- Job skills of the future that AI’s and robots can’t do better than humans.
- Three security trends to watch for at Black Hat 2018.
- Dark web is 5,000 times larger than the surface web, and growing at a rate that defies quantification.
WATCH THIS
Watch the Girl Scouts of the USA teach us a thing or two about cybersecurity.
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THE LIST
Community resources to keep you on the cutting edge of cyber:
- Top cybersecurity news sites for breaking stories and the latest threat alerts
- Quarterly cybercrime diary of data breaches and cyberattacks
- Hack blotter with cybercriminal Investigations, arrests and convictions
- 20 cybersecurity experts to follow on Twitter for crowd-sourced opinions and insights
- Cybersecurity events calendar featuring conferences and expos globally
- Big list of hacker and cybersecurity movies from 1969 to present
- Cybersecurity 500 list of the world’s hottest and most innovative cybersecurity companies
- Cyberwarfare report contains a dateline of U.S. and international cyber conflicts
- List of cybersecurity mergers and acquisitions (M&A) every quarter
- VC report covers venture capital and corporate investments into cybersecurity companies
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– Kerry Morgan is a Cybercrime Reporter for Cybercrime Magazine.
