InfoSecSherpa: Your Guide Up a Mountain of Information! — IBM Teams With 20 Historically Black Colleges and Universities to Address Cybersecurity Talent Shortage (IBM, September 21st) World Cyber Security Summit in Jordan brought together global cyber security experts to tackle the battle against cyber threats (Benzinga, September 22nd) Nuclear Weapons Cybersecurity: NNSA Should Fully Implement Foundational Cybersecurity Risk Management…

InfoSecSherpa: Your Guide Up a Mountain of Information! — Azerbaijan applying effective measures to ensure population’s protection from cyber attacks (AzerNews, September 21st) U.S. Department of Energy Invests $12M in Cybersecurity Research for Energy Grid (Security Intelligence, September 21st) South Africa Post Office latest victim of cyber attacks with 100 000 fraudulent emails imitating entity (IOL, September 21st)

InfoSecSherpa: Your Guide Up a Mountain of Information! — Workshop Summary Report for “Building on the NIST Foundations: Next Steps in IoT Cybersecurity” (NIST, September 2022) A Traveller’s Guide to Staying Cyber safe (The State of Security, September 19th) Tenable Appoints Patricia Grant as Chief Information Officer (CityBiz, September 20th) This Research Shows Meta Apps Are Extremely Vulnerable to…

InfoSecSherpa: Your Guide Up a Mountain of Information! — INTERPOL Working Group highlights cyber threats across the Americas (INTERPOL, September 19th) Australian businesses advised to shorten domain names immediately to mitigate cyber attacks (Proactive Investors, September 19th) Demystifying Cyber: Tennisha Martin, the Ethical Hacker Who Founded BlackGirlsHack (Ms. Magazine, September 19th) Private industry aims to fill demand for space…

InfoSecSherpa: Your Guide Up a Mountain of Information! Africa Edition, news items from August 17-September 17, 2022 New Evolving Cyber Threat in Africa (CIO Review, September 16th) Cybercriminals on the continent target East African firms most (The East African, September 17th) South Africa’s banking and insurance sectors are overwhelmed by…

InfoSecSherpa: Your Guide Up a Mountain of Information! — Interpol Busts Asian Sextortion Syndicate (InfoSecurity Magazine, September 6th) 50 Women In Cybersecurity Associations And Groups To Follow (Cybercrime Magazine, September 13th) EU Cyber Resilience Act sets global standard for connected products (Computer Weekly, September 15th) Azerbaijan uncovers cyber intervention in selling preferential apartments of State Housing Development Agency (Trend News…

InfoSecSherpa: Your Guide Up a Mountain of Information! — In Russia’s Information War, a New Field of Study Gains Traction (New Lines Magazine, September 14th) This Hacker Is Trying to Close the Gender Pay Gap in Cybersecurity (Motherboard Tech by Vice, September 14th) Microsoft Teams stores auth tokens as cleartext in Windows, Linux, Macs (Bleeping Computer, September 14th) The…

InfoSecSherpa: Your Guide Up a Mountain of Information! — Potential phishing activity update (National Cyber Security Centre, September 13th) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) 2023–2025 Strategic Plan (CISA, September 13th) How to Draw and Retain Top Talent in Cyber Security (Information Week, September 13th) Fortinet Sponsors Female Athletes to Further Women in Cyber Initiatives (SDX Central, September 13th)

InfoSecSherpa: Your Guide Up a Mountain of Information! For the time period of August 12-September 12, 2022 Transport operator Go-Ahead flags cyber security breach (Reuters, September 6th) Idaho awarded $30.9M in Federal grants to modernize transportation statewide (Idaho Transportation Department, August 12th) Maritime Cyber Incidents Increased at Least 68 Percent…