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EMOTET Malware Disguises Itself as an Office Update

Emotet is one of the most widespread malware in the technology industry. A development that was born as a banking trojan and has evolved into multiple formats and attacks. It now arrives in another variant, in the form of a message from the Microsoft Office suite indicating that one of its main applications, Microsoft Word, needs to be updated to add "new […]"

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File Magic Numbers

Magic numbers are the first bits of a file that uniquely identify the file type. This makes programming easier because there is no need to search through complicated file structures to identify the file type. For example, a JPEG file begins with ffd8 ffe0 0010 4a46 4946 0001 0101 0047 …… Jfif….. […]

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US has nearly 500,000 cybersecurity job openings

There is a great opportunity in the US for thousands and thousands of people interested in a career in cybersecurity. There are approximately 465,000 vacant cybersecurity positions across the country as of May 2021, according to Cyber Seek — a tech job tracking database from the United States Department of Commerce […]