Some economic sectors may be hitting the brakes, but the cybersecurity talent shortage persists across all industries and shows no signs of abating – not while sophisticated cyberattacks continue to rise in number and complexity. The 2022 (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study found that even as the global cybersecurity workforce is at an all-time high, it is still short by 3.4 million workers.

Cybercrime is lucrative. This world of hackers, malware, and brokers is now a trillion-dollar industry, the number one threat to the global economy, and is showing zero signs of slowing down. Fueled by the digital revolution, the global shift to a hybrid work model, and the rapid adoption of the cloud, more avenues have opened for threat actors to exploit. And their attack methods continue to evolve, with new innovations staying a step ahead of a cybersecurity industry determined to stop them.

I originally planned to write this story as a follow-up to another blog that SURGe released for CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786 (aka SpookySSL). That blog mentions that we weren’t able to test with any malicious payloads yet, and as things go… After releasing that blog, we came across proof-of-concept exploits that weren’t detected by our searches.

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Nobody likes getting audited or inspected. Well, almost nobody; there’s always one person who consistently blows the curve. They gleefully anticipate inspections because they know they’re going to get a glowing review. We all have names for that person, most of which shouldn’t be included in a business blog. But what if, (bear with me) we could be that person?

Technology has expanded the avenues bad actors use to steal identities and sensitive data. However, digital tools are also giving users innovative countermeasures to protect themselves. Here are seven tactics anyone can use to help prevent identity theft.

Microsoft Windows 10 tops the list in terms of users around the world. Among those users, some belong to IT backgrounds but a majority of those users are not acquainted with IT, which means that they have limited knowledge about cybersecurity and its importance. Companies like Microsoft are prone to multiple attacks by bounty hunters or even black hat hackers intending to disturb the company’s operations.

Today, we’re announcing formulas: a refreshingly familiar way to interact with data throughout your automated workflows. Rather than invent our own special system to reference and operate on pieces of data, we've taken inspiration from a surprising source – spreadsheets.