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The Cyber Security Review Board has launched an investigation into a Microsoft vulnerability that resulted in US government emails being hacked.

Ransomware is an exponentially growing global threat. Here are just a few examples from 2022: Costa Rica declared a national emergency after a $20 million ransomware attack; ransomware caused one of the biggest U.S. health data breaches; and ransomware topped CSO’s list of nine hot cybersecurity trends. To hammer the point home, 14 of the […]

Gone Too Soon: Dan Kaminsky, Hacker Hero Gone Too Soon: Dan Kaminsky, Hacker Hero The cybersecurity researcher community has been in mourning this past week as legendary hacker Dan Kaminsky tragically passed away on April 23. Kaminsky was a well known and widely loved figure, for his character, his skills and his research. He was a fixture in the security conference scene, in particular at the annual Black Hat and DEFCON security conferences where he was legendar...

Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest headlines, interviews, and podcasts. These briefings drop on Tuesday mornings. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada reporter Pragya Sehgal with files from editorial director Alex Coop. ITWC Podcasts Listen to the latest episode of Hashtag Trending Intel says the semiconductor chip shortage will last at least another two years, Apple’s iOS 14.5 has arrived, and giant paydays for CEOs are rubbing the internet the wrong w...

Cybersecurity Community Remembers Researcher Dan Kaminsky May 20, 2021 May 3, 2021 May 5, 2021 euroinfosec) • April 27, 2021     Get Permission Dan Kaminsky in an interview conducted at the 2016 RSA Conference in San Francisco (Photo: ISMG) The information security community is mourning the loss of Dan Kaminsky, the renowned security researcher who died last week at age 42. Tributes to Kaminsky have been flooding social media, praising no...

‘We owe him so much… People who will never know his name owe Dan’ The information security community has lost another leading light, after it was announced that prominent security researcher and DNS specialist Dan Kaminsky has died. The news was confirmed by Kaminsky’s niece yesterday (April 25), who said her uncle had passed away after a short illness due to complications arising from diabetes, a condition he had “struggled [with] for years”. Kaminsky, 42, was known for his many co...

Well-known researcher Kaminsky dies of diabetes complications Monday, 26 April 2021 08:35 Well-known researcher Kaminsky dies of diabetes complications Shares Image by Julien Tromeur from Pixabay Well-known information security expert Dan Kaminsky has died suddenly at the age of 42, leading to an outpouring of tributes from the community of which he was part. His niece, Sarah, posted a tweet which included some details about the cause of death, on Monday. Rest In Peace, Dan Kaminsky. Ou...

DEF CON hails an icon in all the positive ways Share Copy Obit Celebrated information security researcher Dan Kaminsky, known not just for his technical ability but also for his compassion and support for those in his industry, has died. He was 42. Though Kaminsky rose to fame in 2008 for identifying a critical design weakness in the internets infrastructure – and worked in secret with software developers to mitigate the issue before it could be easily exploited – he had worked behi...

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