Webinars
- ChatGPT – good or evil? AI impact on cybersecurity – the business community is concerned about the AI’s potential to change the game for cyber criminals and wreak havoc in the world of defense organizations. Should businesses soon expect a wave of even more advanced cyber-attacks or simply more attacks? Will current cybersecurity solutions be enough? Or will ChatGPT instead provide cybersecurity specialists with more efficient and smarter defensive and threat hunting tools?
- Splunk Training – As part of its $100 million Splunk Pledge, Splunk has committed to supporting nonprofit organizations that provide skills training to individuals from communities that have been traditionally underrepresented in the technology industry. It is our hope that the Splunk training you receive through WSC helps prepare you for a successful career in our increasingly data-driven economy.
Articles
- Stanford University discloses data breach affecting PhD applicants – a data breach after files containing Economics Ph.D. program admission information were downloaded from its website between December 2022 and January 2023.
- LassPass breach: Hackers put malware on engineer’s home computer to steal their password – The fallout from the LastPass hack continues, with the company revealing attackers gained access by hacking a senior engineer’s home computer.
- US Marshals Service Hit By Major Ransomware Attack – In response to the ransomware attack, the Marshals Service disconnected the affected system, and the Department of Justice initiated a forensic investigation.
- ‘Hackers’ Behind Air Raid Alerts Across Russia: Official – Russian authorities said that several television and radio stations that have recently broadcast air raid alerts had been breached by hackers.
- Hackers Claim They Breached T-Mobile More Than 100 Times in 2022 – Three different cybercriminal groups claimed access to internal networks at communications giant T-Mobile in more than 100 separate incidents throughout 2022, new data suggests.
- Dish Network confirms ransomware attack behind multi-day outage – Satellite broadcast provider and TV giant Dish Network has finally confirmed that a ransomware attack was the cause of a multi-day network and service outage that started on Friday.
- Critical Vulnerabilities Allowed Booking.com Account Takeover – Booking.com recently patched several vulnerabilities that could have been exploited to take control of a user’s account.
- Critical Flaw in Cisco IP Phone Series Exposes Users to Command Injection Attack – CVE-2023-20078, is rated 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS scoring system and is described as a command injection bug in the web-based management interface arising due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input.
- Chick-fil-A confirms accounts hacked in months-long “automated” attack – Chick-fil-A has confirmed that customers’ accounts were breached in a months-long credential stuffing attack, allowing threat actors to use stored rewards balances and access personal information.
Podcasts
- Smashing Security: 310: Verified blue ticks and horny AI chatbots
- Security Now 911 – A Clever Regurgitator – GoneDaddy, Section 230, NPM malware, Hyundai Kia mess, Meta Verified
Projects
Splunk – Pursuing Splunk Certified User Certificate
- Completed What is Splunk Training
- Completed Intro to Splunk Training
Pluralsight – Introduction to Information Security (2:53)