Tag: jobs
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Cloudflare Cuts 1,100, Arctic Wolf Axes 250 Amid AI Surge
Cloud Connectivity, Security Operations Providers Reportedly Chop 20%, 7% of Staff. Cloudflare cut more than 1,100 workers from its 5,483-person staff, saying the layoffs will align Cloudflare’s operations with AI-driven workflows and productivity gains. And Arctic Wolf laid off 250 workers from its estimated staff of 3,402 to free resources for investment in AI initiatives.…
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What It Costs to Hire a Hacker on the Dark Web in 2026
See how much it costs to hire a hacker or buy data on the Dark Web in 2026. The post What It Costs to Hire a Hacker on the Dark Web in 2026 appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/what-it-costs-to-hire-a-hacker-on-the-dark-web/
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8 guiding principles for reskilling the SOC for agentic AI
Tags: ai, automation, business, ciso, cyber, cybersecurity, data, governance, incident response, jobs, penetration-testing, sans, skills, soc, technology, tool, training, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementSet the tone from the top: The second principle for reskilling security teams for agentic AI is all about leadership.As Baker says, CISOs must set the tone. That means building a culture of rapid experimentation, iteration, and innovation. “Fail fast and move forward,” he says.A key aspect of CISO leadership is understanding the needs of…
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Week in review: cPanel vulnerability actively exploited, DigiCert breach, LinkedIn job scams
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Your work apps are quietly handing 19 data points to someone Office work in … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/10/week-in-review-cpanel-vulnerability-actively-exploited-digicert-breach-linkedin-job-scams/
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Your Purple Team Isn’t Purple, It’s Just Red and Blue in the Same Room
Defending a network at 2 am looks a lot like this: an analyst copy-pasting a hash from a PDF into a SIEM query. A red team script is being rewritten by hand so the blue team can use it. A patch waiting on a change-approval window that’s longer than the exploitation window itself.Nobody in that…
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AI-powered hacking has exploded into industrial-scale threat, Google says
Criminal groups and state-linked actors appear to be using commercial models to refine and scale up attacks<ul><li><a href=”https://viewer.gutools.co.uk/business/live/2026/may/11/uk-economy-job-losses-iran-war-oil-pound-bonds-politics-starmer-live-updates”>Business live latest updates</li></ul>In just three months, AI-powered hacking has gone from a nascent problem to an industrial-scale threat, according to a report from Google.The findings from Google’s threat intelligence group add to an intensifying, global discussion about…
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Trump officials are steering a cybersecurity scholarship program toward AI
The latest development has thrown scholars for a curveball, and has some worried about being “left out to dry” when it comes to job positions. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/sfs-scholarship-program-trump-administration-ai-shift/
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Ten years later, has the GDPR fulfilled its purpose?
Tags: access, ai, breach, business, china, cio, compliance, data, data-breach, dora, finance, flaw, framework, GDPR, governance, government, international, jobs, law, mobile, office, privacy, regulation, risk, service, technology, tool, trainingFernando Maldonado, technology advisor at Foundry. MuleSoft. Gray areas remain: Still, if anything has been demonstrated in the decade since its entry into force, it’s that the GDPR still has a long way to go.Miguel Recio, president of APEP.IA (Spanish Professional Association for Privacy), argues that some of the limitations that have been exposed about the…
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The Winter Games effect: When gold meets DDoS
Tags: attack, botnet, cctv, ddos, defense, detection, dns, government, group, infrastructure, international, Internet, iot, jobs, lockbit, network, penetration-testing, ransomware, router, service, strategy, threat, windowsAttack volumes 610x historical levels during the Winter Games period (February 623, 2026)Peak attack count reached more than 2,200 attacks on February 23NoName057(16) dominated public DDoS hacktivist claims with 47, although ransomware groups (Qilin, LockBit 5.0) also claimed success in various attacksTactical shift from pre-Winter Games high-bandwidth attacks (412.89Gbps peak) to Winter Games-period high-throughput attacksGeographic…
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Darkhub HackingHire Portal Promotes Crypto Fraud and Spyware Services
A newly identified dark web platform, Darkhub, is advertising a wide range of hacking-for-hire services, including account compromise, surveillance, and financial manipulation. The service, accessible via the Tor network, presents itself as a centralized hub for offensive cyber capabilities targeting both individuals and organizations. Many similar services historically function as advance-fee scams rather than delivering…
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LinkedIn job scams push most pros to verify roles before applying
Questioning whether a job posting is genuine has become part of the application routine for most professionals. 72% stop to consider the legitimacy of a role at least … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/06/linkedin-job-scams-hit-hard/
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CISOs step up to the security workforce challenge
Tags: ai, attack, automation, ciso, conference, control, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, jobs, malicious, risk, skills, strategy, technology, threat, tool, trainingGomez-Sanchez and Turpin are speaking at the CSO Cybersecurity Awards & Conference, May 11-13. Reserve your place. And then there’s AI. When it comes to security, AI may help partially offset cyber skills shortages by automating certain tasks, but it also ramps up cyberattack volumes and expands the organizational attack surface, without fixing CISOs’ ongoing talent…
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Defining AI-First Engineers and AI-Native Engineers: The New Talent Blueprint [Hiring in the AI Era (Part 2)]
From Understanding the Shift to Defining the Talent In Part 1, we established a foundational shift: Work is moving from execution to orchestration. Humans are…Read More First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: https://securityboulevard.com/2026/05/defining-ai-first-engineers-and-ai-native-engineers-the-new-talent-blueprint-hiring-in-the-ai-era-part-2/
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Botnet Hijacks ADB-Exposed Android Devices to Target Minecraft Servers
New research has uncovered a Mirai-derived botnet called xlabs_v1 that turns Android devices with exposed Android Debug Bridge (ADB) into a distributed attack platform for knocking Minecraft servers and other game hosts offline. By abusing TCP port 5555 on poorly secured Android-based hardware, the operators are quietly building a rentable DDoS-for-hire service aimed at the gaming ecosystem.…
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The fake IT worker problem CISOs can’t ignore
Tags: access, ai, breach, business, captcha, cio, ciso, compliance, computer, control, credentials, crowdstrike, data, detection, edr, endpoint, fedramp, fraud, gartner, iam, identity, jobs, linkedin, mitigation, monitoring, network, north-korea, office, phone, risk, skills, tool, training, zero-trustWhat to do if you suspect a fake IT worker: When a CIO suspects a fake IT worker, next steps are important as the issue shifts from recruitment to insider risk management.During his time at MongoDB, George Gerchow, IANS faculty advisor and Bedrock Data CSO, oversaw the investigation after the company detected it had unknowingly…
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Job’s a good ‘un: Bank of England tech project wins watchdog praise
PAC: Now why can’t everybody else in public sector do it like this? First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/05/03/bank_of_england_tech_migration/
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Week in review: High-severity LPE vulnerability in the Linux kernel, cPanel 0-day exploited for months
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: The AI criminal mastermind is already hiring on gig platforms Labor-hire … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/03/week-in-review-high-severity-lpe-vulnerability-in-the-linux-kernel-cpanel-0-day-exploited-for-months/
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Week in review: High-severity LPE vulnerability in the Linux kernel, cPanel 0-day exploited for months
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: The AI criminal mastermind is already hiring on gig platforms Labor-hire … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/03/week-in-review-high-severity-lpe-vulnerability-in-the-linux-kernel-cpanel-0-day-exploited-for-months/
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Just 34% of cyber pros plan to stick with their current employer
Skills development: Richard Demeny, founder and CTO at Canary Wharfian, an online finance career platform, says that graduates and early professionals know they are calling the shots because even at the entry level talent is scarce.”[New entrants] are prioritizing opportunity and learnings, as pay is pretty much standard across the board, except for maybe high-finance…
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Nearly half of UK businesses pwned last year as phishing keeps doing the job like it’s 2005
Turns out the real problem is not AI but staff still clicking on dodgy emails from ‘IT support’ First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/04/30/almost_half_of_uk_firms/
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Nearly half of UK businesses pwned last year as phishing keeps doing the job like it’s 2005
Turns out the real problem is not AI but staff still clicking on dodgy emails from ‘IT support’ First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/04/30/almost_half_of_uk_firms/
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Nearly half of UK businesses pwned last year as phishing keeps doing the job like it’s 2005
Turns out the real problem is not AI but staff still clicking on dodgy emails from ‘IT support’ First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/04/30/almost_half_of_uk_firms/
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Proxmox Backup Server 4.2 arrives with S3 storage support and parallel sync jobs
Proxmox Backup Server 4.2 is a maintenance and feature update built on Debian 13.4 >>Trixie<< that adds S3-compatible object storage as a supported backend and … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/30/proxmox-backup-server-4-2-released/
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ODNI to CISOs on threat assessments: You’re on your own
Tags: access, ai, china, ciso, computer, control, credentials, cyber, cybercrime, data, defense, detection, disinformation, encryption, finance, framework, government, healthcare, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, iran, jobs, korea, metric, resilience, risk, russia, service, strategy, technology, theft, threat, tool, warfareThe bifurcated framework: Operational reporting vs. homeland focus: The report now operates on two distinct tracks that risk narrowing the threat horizon for CROs. In a departure from traditional probabilistic forecasting, the IC has transitioned toward active operational reporting. This shift prioritizes immediate success metrics, such as a significant drop in border encounters and fentanyl…