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One Missed Threat Per Week: What 25M Alerts Reveal About Low-Severity Risk

The dark secret of enterprise security operations is that defenders have quietly institutionalized the practice of not looking. This is not just anecdotal, but rather backed by a recent report investigating more than 25 million security alerts, including informational and low-severity, across live enterprise environments.  The dataset behind these findings includes 10 million monitored

7 factors impacting the cyber skills gap

Individuals with strong cybersecurity skills are in high demand. That’s no secret. What’s most important is the fact that the shortage is preventing many enterprises from building sustainable cybersecurity talent pipelines. According to World Economic Forum statistics, only 14% of organizations are confident they have the people and skills required to meet their cybersecurity objectives.…

Apple, the storage company

When it comes to hardware and services revenues, storage is Apple’s secret spell. Not only has iCloud storage become Apple’s most frequently paid-for service, but people are more often purchasing additional storage when acquiring new Apple hardware. This is good business for the company and all it had to do to build that business was…

How to scam someone in seven days

Romance scammers have apparently discovered astrology… and Taurus is their secret weapon. In episode 449 of “Smashing Security”, we take a look inside an actual romance-fraud handbook – complete with scripts, personality “types”, corporate jargon, and a seven-day plan to get victims from hello to hand over the crypto. Then Lesley “hacks4pancakes” Carhart delivers a…