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Let's explore the overarching benefits of implementing a student cybersecurity awareness program at your higher-education institution.

Leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee and other bipartisan lawmakers have formally introduced legislation requiring federal contractors and critical infrastructure groups to report attempted breaches following moLeaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee and other bipartisan lawmakers have formally introduced legislation requiring federal contractors and critical infrastructure groups to report attempted breaches following months of escalating cyberattacks.  nths of escalating cyberattacks.

MITRE Engenuity released results from its first round of independent MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations for Industrial Control Systems (ICS). The evaluations examined how cybersecurity products from five ICS vendors detected the threat of Russian-linked Triton malware.

Netskope revealed new research showing the continued growth of malware delivered by cloud applications and also the potential for critical data exfiltration tied to employees departing their jobs, among a range of increasing cloud application security risks.

Bitdefender security researchers discovered a new malware strain spiking in their telemetry. The malware, which Bitdefender named MosaicLoader, is a downloader that can deliver any payload to the infected system. During their investigation, Bitdefender found that MosaicLoader threat actors used the following tactics to hinder researchers' malware analysis efforts and to increase their attacks' rate of success:

The United States, the European Union, NATO and other world powers on Monday accused the Chinese government of an array of malicious cybersecurity incidents, blaming its Ministry of State Security (MSS) and hackers for the security attack on Microsoft's email server disclosed in early March 2021.

New evidence uncovered by Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories has revealed a massive wave of attacks by cyber surveillance company NSO Group’s customers on iPhones, potentially affecting thousands of Apple users worldwide.

A hacker created a database of information scraped from 700 million LinkedIn users after tricking the company’s API and used the same technique to create a database on 533 million Facebook users.

Dr. Bobby Blumofe, Chief Technology Officer of Akamai, discusses zero-trust security models and how they impact employee morale.