US emergency alert systems down after cyberattack • The Register

Various municipalities have issued near-identical advisories about the attack on the OnSolve CodeRED platform, now owned by Crisis24, which enables residents to receive real-time alerts for emergencies such as weather warnings, missing children, terror threats, and more.

Study concludes cybersecurity training doesn’t work | KPBS Public Media

Some people with training were slightly less likely to click on a phishing lure than the untrained. But some trained people were more likely to click.

6 Networking Uses for the Linux nc Command

The netcat tool is quite popular among network administrators. However, it can also serve different purposes for you as a casual Linux user in your day-to-day life. While doing some research, I’ve found some great use cases to play with the nc command.

Pentests once a year? Nope. It’s time to build an offensive SOC

In the real world, adversaries don’t operate in bursts. Their recon is continuous, their tools and tactics are always evolving, and new vulnerabilities are often reverse-engineered into working exploits within hours of a patch release.

So, if your offensive validation isn’t just as dynamic, you’re not just lagging, you’re exposed.

Microsoft says China-backed cybercriminals hacked into US nuclear weapons agency

“The early exploitation resembled government-sponsored activity, and then spread more widely to include hacking that ‘looks like China’,” Meyers told Bloomberg News. CrowdStrike’s investigation into the campaign remains ongoing.

This Tool Upgrades Everything on Ubuntu with One Command – OMG! Ubuntu

Which is where the Topgrade utility comes in. It lets you run a single command to update software from multiple sources, in one fell swoop.

How to Use Windows Reliability Monitor

This native tool provides a user-friendly interface to aid in identifying and fixing system crashes, Windows update issues, hardware, and driver problems.

What Are Virtual Machines, and How Do They Work?

A virtual machine (VM) is a software-based emulation of a computer. A program called a hypervisor runs on your computer. It allows you to create virtual machines–virtual computers—and configure them with an amount of RAM, hard drive space, CPU cores, and other details that would normally be provisioned in hardware. Once you’ve configured your VM, you can turn it on and install an operating system.

Misconfig Mapper: Open-source tool to uncover security misconfigurations – Help Net Security

Misconfig Mapper is an open-source CLI tool built in Golang that discovers and enumerates instances of services used within your organization. It performs large-scale detection and misconfiguration assessments, leveraging customizable templates with detection and misconfiguration fingerprints to identify potential security risks in widely used third-party software and services.