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Unmasking North Korea's Covert IT Army. Before You Hire Them

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Hundreds of companies around the world, including major American firms, have accidentally hired North Korean employees pretending to be something else. Grimes outlined KnowBe4's own recent experience , in which they identified and terminated an employee who was part of this covert operation. And it's a really big problem."

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Invincea Announces 54 New Enterprise Customers for Its Flagship Enterprise Solution, $8.1M in Advanced Research Contracts for Its Labs Division

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in Advanced Research Contracts For its Labs Division. in new contracts for advanced cybersecurity projects for defense and federal government agencies in the areas of cloud-based advanced malware analysis, spear-phishing attacks against Android, and big data analytics for compromise detection. contract with the U.S.

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Insider Threat: KnowBe4 Thwarts North Korean Infiltration Attempt

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This incident sheds light on the evolving tactics of state-sponsored threat actors and underscores the need for enhanced security measures in hiring processes. We sent them their Mac workstation, and the moment it was received, it immediately started to load malware." The picture was AI 'enhanced'," Sjouwerman explained.

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Does Next-Generation Anti-Virus Solve the Fatal Flaws of Anti-Virus?

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PCworld on Macrobased Malware. Microsoft on Macro Malware. Trendmicro on Macro Malware. Moreover, even in the context of attacks that are file-based, malware is increasingly encrypted or packed using obfuscation engines, and then unpacked or decrypted in memory when executed. See: Security Ledger on Fessleak.

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25 Feb Cloudera Federal Forum in Tysons Corner: Amazing agenda filled with lessons learned and best practices

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Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera Eddie Garcia is chief security architect at Cloudera, a leader in enterprise analytic data management.

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Join Architects, Planners, Program Managers, Data Scientists at 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum in DC 25 Feb

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Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera Eddie Garcia is chief security architect at Cloudera, a leader in enterprise analytic data management.

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The Sony Hack in Context

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As one pundit has pointed out, twice as many Americans have been married to Larry King as have contracted the Ebola virus, yet the public is terrified of Ebola while seemingly unconcerned by the fact that our society is now existentially dependent on a highly penetrated and grossly insecure technology.