From Factory Floors to CyberSecurity: How Cisco Helped Me Build My Dream Career
From factory floors to CCIE Security, Technical Solutions Engineer Pamela R. shares how Cisco helped her turn a distant dream into a thriving reality.
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Turning AI Security Barriers into Partner Growth: Recap from Cisco Live EMEA and AI Summit
Discover how Cisco is securing the "Agentic Era." Get the full recap from Cisco Live EMEA and the AI Summit, featuring new innovations in AI Defense, the launch of the Cisco 360 Partner Program, and strategies to turn security barriers into growth opportunities for partners.
Getting proximate: Reflections from the first year of 40 Communities
A year into our 40 Communities journey, the lessons are clear: listening, proximity, and focus drive real impact. Explore how insights from our work in Western North Carolina and Mumbai are guiding our ambitious vision for the future.
SSHStalker botnet brute-forces its way onto 7,000 Linux machines
A newly discovered botnet is compromising poorly-protected Linux servers by brute-forcing weak SSH password login authentication. Researchers at Canada-based Flare Systems, who discovered the botnet, got into its staging server and believe at least 7,000 servers had been compromised by the end of January, half of them in the US. The botnet’s weapons include exploits for unpatched Linux vulnerabilities going…
Intel says Google engineers spotted Xeon vulnerabilities
Intel said it was able to identify five vulnerabilities in the one of the most important confidential computing elements of its Xeon CPUs with help from Google’s cloud security team. The work was part of a five-month joint security review between Intel’s INT31 team (Intel’s offensive security research) and Google’s Cloud Security team. The partnership identified five vulnerabilities and 35…
IT bonuses reward network, security skills that can’t be automated
The market for networking and security skills is shifting as AI implementations move from experimental to operational and enterprise organizations deploy more sophisticated IT architectures. So, which skills are commanding the highest premiums? And which skills are no longer in great demand? Foote Partners’ latest IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index shows a clear pattern: Premium pay is moving away…
AI will likely shut down critical infrastructure on its own, no attackers required
With a new Gartner report suggesting that AI problems will “shut down national critical infrastructure” in a major country by 2028, CIOs need to rethink industrial controls that are very quickly being turned over to autonomous agents. Gartner embraces the term Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) for these technologies, which it defines as “engineered systems that orchestrate sensing, computation, control, networking…
Bloody Wolf Targets Uzbekistan, Russia Using NetSupport RAT in Spear-Phishing Campaign
Security researchers at SentinelOne recently uncovered a sophisticated spear-phishing campaign by the threat actor group known as Bloody Wolf, targeting government and diplomatic entities in Uzbekistan and Russia. In the first half of 2023, phishing attacks globally rose by 61% according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group, but this operation stands out for its use of...
⚡ Weekly Recap: AI Skill Malware, 31Tbps DDoS, Notepad++ Hack, LLM Backdoors and More
Google Cloud recently mitigated a staggering 31 terabits per second (Tbps) DDoS attack, one of the largest ever recorded, targeting a single customer. This assault, which peaked at over 398 million requests per second, underscores the escalating scale of cyber threats in 2023. For network engineers and IT professionals, such events highlight the urgent need...
SMS Phishers Pivot to Points, Taxes, Fake Retailers
Lookout Mobile Security reported a 150% surge in SMS phishing attacks during the 2023 tax season, with scammers impersonating the IRS to steal personal data from over 2 million users. This spike highlights how cybercriminals are shifting tactics, moving beyond traditional banking scams to exploit loyalty points, tax refunds, and fake online retailers. For network...