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SkillUp/Shutterstock While trolling through the dark web this week, I found my Twitter account’s data. A dark web site this month released a data set of 200 million Twitter profiles. That’s where I found my account’s data. I know my data hadn’t been revealed in earlier releases because I’d checked then. In my business, I […] More
Image: Getty/Manuel Breva Colmeiro Cyber criminals are exploiting an old vulnerability in Intel drivers in an attempt to gain access to networks in a way that allows them to bypass cybersecurity protections. The attacks have been detailed by cybersecurity researchers at Crowdstrike, who suggest the campaign targeting Windows systems is the work of a cyber-criminal […] More
Tile As someone who found herself embroiled in the FAA outage this morning, when I rebooked my flight, my luggage didn’t track information, so it didn’t show up on my new flight confirmation. However, I wasn’t too worried about knowing where my bags were thanks to the Tile Mate tracker I tucked in my suitcase. […] More
Getty Images I’m a big advocate of using VPNs, especially when on the go and connected to networks you aren’t confident you can trust. When you use a VPN, all the data that leaves your machine is encrypted and anonymized. More how-tos Adding a VPN is especially important when you’re transmitting sensitive data and don’t […] More
Getty Images / Christine Phillips Royal Mail says it can’t send letters or parcels overseas because of disruption due to what it describes as a “cyber incident”. “We are temporarily unable to despatch items to overseas destinations. Some customers may experience delay or disruption to items already shipped for export,” the company said in a […] More
Shutterstock Windows and Office admins get a busy start to 2023, with Microsoft releasing 98 security fixes for its platforms — that’s a big haul when compared to most Patch Tuesdays and almost double the number it turned out leading into the holiday season. January 2023 Patch Tuesday addresses two zero-day flaws but only one […] More
Image: Nitat Termmee/Getty Cybersecurity professionals are at breaking point, with many fearing they will soon lose their jobs because of a cyberattack and others struggling to cope with the growing strain. Unless businesses act soon, an ever-growing skills gap might become an unbridgeable chasm. Almost half (47%) of cybersecurity incident responders say they’ve experienced burnout or […] More
You do this by clicking on Create a New Virtual Machine, and then select Virtualize. From the list of operating systems, choose Other, then click Browse… and find your Kali Linux installer that you downloaded earlier.Once selected, click Continue, and I bring the Memory slider to 2048MB. You can assign more, but I find 2GB to be more than enough.As for storage, I find that 32GB is more than ample for Kali Linux.Once you get to the Summary page, give the virtual machine a name, check the box next to Open VM Settings, and click Save. More
