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Break Out the Decorations! Cybersecurity Awareness Month is Here

Calendars are great and serve a wide range of purposes. Paper calendars, digital calendars, calendars with Garfield or Peanuts comics, they all have the ability remind us of birthdays, the first day of school, garbage pick-up day and holidays. So, let’s make sure your calendar has October marked down as Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

Agile Penetration Testing: Scaling Application Assessments [Webinar Replay]

Watch Kroll expert Rahul Raghavan (Senior Vice President, Cyber Risk) highlight how organizations can scale their application security assessments with agile penetration testing. In this webinar, Rahul discusses how CISOs, CTOs, product engineers and security leaders can elevate their security posture by integrating effective security testing within the agile development process. Key sections.

What Is a Watering Hole Attack?

A watering hole attack is a type of cyberattack in which a threat actor targets an organization by hacking a website often visited by an employee in order to infect the employee’s device with malware. Once the device of one employee is infected, the threat actor targets other members of the organization and steals their confidential information.

What is a Remote Access Trojan (RAT)?

A Remote Access Trojan (RAT) is a type of malware that enables an attacker to gain remote access over an infected system. Once a machine is compromised by a Remote Access Trojan, your system is at high risk of covert surveillance, data exfiltration, and other methods of malicious remote compromise. This article defines what a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) is and how you can take action to protect your system with UpGuard BreachSight.