Medibank will not pay ransom in hack affecting 9.7 million customers

Medibank, one of Australia’s largest health insurance providers stated today that it…

Meta, Apple, Amazon, Twitter and Google are all laying off. What happened?

Only two years ago, big tech and Silicon Valley were on what…

How to get started on Infosec Mastodon

In case you haven’t heard, Elon Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion…

Episode 2: LinkedIn cyber threats, $1B ransomware bounties paid, Twitter verification scams

The second episode of the Cybersecurity Careers Blog podcast is now live!…

US banks report over $1 billion in ransomware payments in 2021

United States financial institutions report that over $1 billion in ransomware payments…

Twitter verification phishing scams are causing confusion

We’re only days from when Elon Musk closed his deal of acquiring…

S3crets Scanner scans AWS S3 buckets for secrets

A new open source tool ‘S3crets Scanner’ scans Amazon Web Services (AWS)…

LinkedIn takes measures to stop fake profiles, cyber threat actors

LinkedIn has introduced three new features that it hopes will stop an…

Microsoft’s security business surges

Microsoft reported September quarter-end results yesterday after-hours, and like many other members…

Episode 1: Welcome to CyberCareers.blog

When we launched this blog a few months ago, we did so…