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CSO After Dark Dec 20, 2016 Be on high alert for this holiday spam Scam artists don't care if this is the time for giving. They see the holidays as an opportunity to find a poor soul to fool. Here are some examples found thus far. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • What 2017 has in store for cybersecurity • There's Still Time! Go Here For Last Minute Deals That Will Ship Fast - Deal Alert • Phishing email scams 108 government employees, 756,000 people affected by breach • Ransomware: at your service • Ways to improve security education in the New Year • HTTP/2 promises better performance -- but with security caveats • ICYMI: 10 top holiday phishing scams White Paper: F5 Networks Build a Better Cloud: Understanding Your Options for a Smart Migration Strategy Global adoption of the cloud is accelerating at a dizzying rate each year with businesses of all sizes realizing the cost-saving, flexibility, and scalability benefits of migrating and running applications in the cloud. In a 2016 survey*, F5 found that 67 percent of the respondents identified themselves as "Cloud First," and three cloud models - private, public, and SaaS - dominated the top five IT strategic trends. Read More ▶ What 2017 has in store for cybersecurity There is much uncertainty surrounding the security industry for 2017. Many of the trepidations of experts in the field are directly connected to what the nation's next president will do. Find out what else worries them. Read More ▶ DealPost There's Still Time! Go Here For Last Minute Deals That Will Ship Fast - Deal Alert Amazon ships fast, so head to their "last minute deals" page and pick yourself some winners right now, before the 2-day shipping window closes for good. Read More ▶ Phishing email scams 108 government employees, 756,000 people affected by breach On Friday, The LA County Chief Executive Office issued a public notice that 756,000 Californians were going to be receiving breach notification letters, after a single Phishing email scammed more than one hundred county employees. The notice also said a warrant has been issued for the Nigerian responsible for the Phishing attack. Read More ▶ Ransomware: at your service Find out what Ransomware as a service looks like and how to protect your network from it. Now it is even easier for amateur criminals to get the malware all packaged up for them. Read More ▶ Ways to improve security education in the New Year As 2016 comes to a close, there are a few types of security advice we should strive to avoid. With all the inevitable confusion about effective ways of protecting our data and machines, security experts need to make sure the information we're giving is both clear and current. Read More ▶ HTTP/2 promises better performance -- but with security caveats The new internet communication protocol, HTTP/2, is now being used by 11 percent of websites -- up from just 2.3 percent a year ago. And while there have been no security problems found in the HTTP/2 protocol itself, there are vulnerabilities in some implementations and the possibility of lower visibility into internet traffic, so it's worth waiting for everything to shake out. Read More ▶ ICYMI: 10 top holiday phishing scams It always happens this time of year, an influx of holiday-related scams circulating the interwebs. Scams don't wait for the holidays, but scammers do take advantage of the increased shopping and distraction when things get busy to take your money and personal information. Here are a six holiday threats to watch out for. Read More ▶ White Paper: F5 Networks Build a Better Cloud: Understanding Your Options for a Smart Migration Strategy Global adoption of the cloud is accelerating at a dizzying rate each year with businesses of all sizes realizing the cost-saving, flexibility, and scalability benefits of migrating and running applications in the cloud. In a 2016 survey*, F5 found that 67 percent of the respondents identified themselves as "Cloud First," and three cloud models - private, public, and SaaS - dominated the top five IT strategic trends. Read More ▶ Top 5 Stories 1. Top 15 security predictions for 2017 2. 14 eyebrow-raising things Google knows about you 3. How to replace 5 major Yahoo services and delete your Yahoo account 4. Hackers get around AI with flooding, poisoning and social engineering 5. 10 new social media scams to watch out for Editor's Picks 1. 15 hot, new security and privacy apps for Android and iOS 2. How to get creative with your penetration testing 3. 5 security bolstering strategies that won't break the bank 4. What's wrong with this picture? The NEW clean desk test 5. Inside an attack by the Syrian Electronic Army

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