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Patch Newsday May – NTLM relays, RDP again and the ongoing specter of Print Spooler

3 May 2022

How we connect across the globe in sales

13 April 2022

Patch Newsday April – Pre-Easter Patches

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Patch Tuesday

12 April 2022

To pay, or not to pay, how to think clearly about ransomware demands

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6 April 2022

Flexible working: at home, visiting friends, working holiday, and the office!

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Patch Newsday May – NTLM relays, RDP again and the ongoing specter of Print Spooler

How we connect across the globe in sales

Patch Newsday April – Pre-Easter Patches

To pay, or not to pay, how to think clearly about ransomware demands

Flexible working: at home, visiting friends, working holiday, and the office!

Spring4Shell: Java vulnerabilities bounce back into the headlines

Cyber Workforce Summit 2022: Reflections from a behavioural scientist

Day in the life of Charlotte, Crisis Sim Content Specialist

Application security – understanding the human capability issue

International Women’s Day: break the bias

Strengthening cybersecurity teams’ capabilities: Cyber Workforce Benchmark 2022

Secure engineering: Why are security headers so important?

My career story: 18 months at Immersive Labs. What a ride!

Life at Immersive Labs

Measuring global human cyber capabilities: Report

Free and open defensive cyber labs

A day in the life of Evander Pierre, Web Developer

Life at Immersive Labs

Everyone needs cloud security: here’s why

House of cards: surviving a supply chain attack

Cyber Crisis Sim

Parental Leave Adventures in a Campervan

Life at Immersive Labs

Patch Newsday February 2022: Small But Mighty

Immersive Labs channel boss named CRN Channel Chief for 2022!

Immersive Labs signs up to Tech Zero campaign

SureMDM vulnerability could lead to supply chain compromise

Vulnerabilities

McLaren’s vision for optimizing its cyber workforce with Immersive Labs

Immersive Labs signs MOU with UAE Government to develop nationwide cyber skills

Patch Newsday: Christmas Chaos or Silent Night?

Everything you need to know about Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228)

Helping McLaren stay cyber resilient off the track, so they can perform on it

My hidden disability

Netgear vulnerabilities could put small business routers at risk

Why You Shouldn’t Blindly Trust the Software Supply Chain

Welcoming Snap Labs to the team – and accelerating towards the future of Immersive Labs

Patch Newsday: Wild CVEs & CISA Directives

A day in the life of Rob, Product Designer

Life at Immersive Labs

Patch Newsday: 12 October 2021 – Spooky Spooler and Sinister Scores

Building cyber resilience for the Financial Services sector with breadth and at scale

OWASP Top 10 2021 has finally landed – here’s why you should care

Financial Sector Insider Threat: Master Key Compromise

Cyber Crisis Sim

Patch Newsday: 14 September 2021 – Lousy Browsers and Arsey RCEs

Analyzing the CVE-2021-40444 exploit

Take the power back: Tool-up against a notorious global threat group with our new FIN7 series

Patch Newsday 10 August: Ironic exploitation and the spectre of PrintNightmare

Kaseya supply chain attack: Prepare to respond with the Cyber Crisis Simulator

Cyber Crisis Sim

Disclosure Dilemmas: Vulnerable Stalkerware

When Less Isn’t More: A Deep Dive into Exploiting the Less.js RCE

Vulnerabilities

Patch Newsday – 13 July 2021

Stalkerware 101: Everything you need to know

An investment into the cyber skilled workforce of the future

Patch Newsday – 8 June 2021

Frustrations of an AppSec Engineer Part 2: Lost in Translation

Welcome to the DarkSide: where IT and OT Collide

Cyber Crisis Sim

Frustrations of an AppSec Engineer Part 1: Collaboration, Collaboration, Collaboration

It makes you WannaCry: Anti-Ransomware Day 2021

Patch Newsday: May 11, 2021

It’s not all CorrectHorseBatteryStaple: How to power up your passwords in 2021

Wagtail XSS + LocalStorage = Account Hijack

Neurodiversity is my superpower!

Life at Immersive Labs

Stepping into the Future: Immersive Labs joins Future Fifty 9.0

Life at Immersive Labs

Interdependence and teamwork: managing crises effectively

Cyber Crisis Sim

Patch Newsday: April 13, 2021

Wicked problems: navigating crises when there’s no clear path

Cyber Crisis Sim

Lab beaker

Play along with our new crisis scenario – Insider Threat: Pharma Drama!

Cyber Crisis Sim

The People of InfoSec on the People of InfoSec: The Thought Leader’s View

SaltStack: further injection vulnerabilities

Immersive Labs Chooses Global Channel-First Strategy With 50 New Partners and Transparent Structure

The View from the CISO’s Chair

Hands-on with Hafnium: Proxylogon evolves

Patch Newsday: March 10, 2021

Introducing your vehicle’s nervous system, CANBus

International Women’s Day 2021: Choose to Challenge

Life at Immersive Labs

The People of InfoSec on the People of InfoSec

One-day exploit party with SaltStack

Why so salty? Local privilege escalation on SaltStack minions

Vulnerabilities

Diverse organizations build high-performing crisis response teams. Here’s how.

New package management flaw: dependency confusion

Vulnerabilities

Being out in the workplace: Why being open matters

Life at Immersive Labs

The digitalization of kidnap and extortion: a modern business dilemma

Cyber Crisis Sim

Patch Newsday: February 9, 2021

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The Time to Make History is Now

Life at Immersive Labs

Facebook probably knows you better than you do – should you be worried?

Webinar: Cybersecurity CTFs – The power of competition in building attack-ready humans

Cyber Crisis Simulator: Weathering the storm: public vs private crises

Cyber Crisis Sim

Analyzing static code for threat hunters

Introduction to Static Code Analysis for Reverse Engineering

Continuous integration means continuously embedding security skills

Cyberattacks are hammering businesses and public sector organizations – but when is it really a crisis?

Cyber Crisis Sim

Immersive Labs is officially one of the best places to work in Boston!

Power plant

Cyber Crisis Simulator: ransomware cripples major energy supplier – live it and learn

Cyber Crisis Sim

Sunburst Solarwinds Attack

When the sun bursts: responding to global cyber events

Cyber Crisis Sim

Feel the heat of SUNBURST with Immersive Labs (so your business won’t have to)

The Psychology of Cyber: How to build cognitive agility with micro-drilling

The Psychology of Cyber: How to build cognitive agility with micro-drilling

Cyber Crisis Sim

The Psychology of Cyber: Understanding cognitive agility as a fix for the ‘wicked problem’ of cyber crises

Cyber Crisis Sim

What is AppSec, and why do you need it?

The Psychology of Cyber: Why thinking on your feet is critical to cyber crisis response

Cyber Crisis Sim

Remembrance Sunday Special: How a career in cyber is helping veterans adapt

Digital Cyber Academies

Halloween: can you solve the murder mystery in our new series?

Upcoming Anatomy of a Hack: Hands-on Red Teaming with the “Zerologon” Vulnerability

Randy Franklin Smith

Ultimate Windows Security

Test your cyber mettle for free: Immersive Labs Community is now in public beta

Research: Can you build spyware for a Fitbit?

The more the merrier: four ways to build a more diverse cybersecurity team

Think cyberattacks only hurt financially? Think again

Cyber Crisis Sim

Staying cyber-safe in a remote working world

Cyber Crisis Sim

Guest Blog: The Stress and Joy of Security Jobs

Five steps every business should implement before ransomware strikes

A sign we’re on the right Track

The key element in your cybersecurity strategy isn’t process, tech or data – it’s people

Gamer celebrating victory

If your cyber training isn’t gamified, it isn’t right

InfoSec MythBusters: quelling common misconceptions

Cyber crisis: Respond as a whole

Cyber Crisis Sim

CREST cancellations expose a wider problem with perception of cyber skills

The five types of insider threats – and how to tackle them

Cyber Crisis Sim

Osterman Research Part 3: Learn and Adapt

Cyber Crisis Sim

Osterman Research Part 2: The human element

Cyber Crisis Sim

Osterman Research Part 1: Out of sync with the threat landscape

Cyber Crisis Sim

From decisions to decryption – live the Garmin ransomware attack with Immersive Labs

Cyber Crisis Sim

Cyber Preparedness lessons from the trenches

Cyber preparedness lessons from the trenches

Cyber Crisis Sim

Build capabilities, not just plans

Cyber Crisis Sim

Most organizations now expect to be hacked, so why is incident response being neglected?

Cyber Crisis Sim

Hacking in Hollywood: our experts review

Less stress, more success: how psychological safety affects your team’s performance

Revolutionizing the tabletop exercise: Step into the Cyber Crisis Simulator

Cyber Crisis Sim

What does it take to keep young hackers on the right path?

From Mitigation To Exploitation

Powering Cyber Skills with KPMG

The Evolution of Ransomware

Supercharge your cyber decision making skills with storytelling

Can you really evidence human cyber readiness?

New vulnerability in popular Android banker Anubis reported to authorities

Sign in with Apple vulnerability: lessons to learn

When is a security vulnerability not a vulnerability?

What are red teams and which human traits help them succeed?

CISSP now equivalent to a master’s – but what are they really worth?

It’s been three years since WannaCry, so we asked our experts – where were you?

How to lock onto the hackers targeting SaltStack minions

Hackers are currently attacking vulnerable SaltStack systems – here’s how

How the crisis is unveiling the true cost of classroom cyber training

Threat monitoring with AttackerKB

How the current crisis is exposing the pitfalls of classroom cyber training

When a cyberattack hits you need a prepared security team – not certificates

Six ransomware strains that demonstrate attacker innovation

CVE-2020-10560 – OSSN Arbitrary File Read

Covid-19 Phishing Emails: How to Spot Them

Defining NICE work roles: Cyber Defense Analyst

We need to do more to help our CISOs – here’s why

Defining NICE work roles: Vulnerability Assessment Analyst

Defining NICE work roles: Cyber Crime Investigator

Defining NICE work roles: Cyber Defense Forensics Analyst

China vs Equifax: A timeline of alleged cyber espionage

Defining NICE work roles: Cyber Defense Incident Responder

Codename Shitrix: attackers scramble to exploit CVE-2019-19781

RSA Conference 2020

The tech behind the headlines: Iran’s cyber capability explained

teissLondon2020: The European Information Security Summit

Travelex vs Sodinokibi: A cyber crisis timeline

Reflecting on… Immersive Focus

Immersive Labs: The best of 2019

Immersive Labs Unearths Vulnerability in Aviatrix VPN

Everyone’s discussing the new Windows UAC vuln – and you can explore it for FREE!

A tame BlueKeep: Get hands-on with the exploit in our free lab

Measuring the effectiveness of your security tech is easy – but what about your people?

Why MITRE ATT&CK™ is THE cybersecurity framework in 2019

Hackers have first-move advantage – that’s why defenders should learn like they do

The future of cyber defense is in the hands of entire workforces

Capital One breach: security tech only as effective as the human configuring it

Powered by Immersive Labs: Bringing Hiscox’s ‘Crack the Cube’ event to life through gamification

The countdown to Black Hat has begun

How the ICO’s £183m BA fine should focus businesses on sharpening cyber skills at speed

Want to upskill at the speed of cyber? Then it’s time to break out of the training room

US Government looks to boost cyber skills with gamified national contest

How cyber security frameworks are aiding skills development and assessment

Learn how your decisions affect cyber risk in real time

What is password spraying and how can you defend against it?

Why developing cyber skills is never game over

Finding hidden cyber talent in your organisation: A recruitment solution

Cyber security talent is expensive – so why not develop your own?

Immersive Labs’ Developer Manager makes Top 30 Women in Software

Life at Immersive Labs

In our on-demand world, why is cyber skills development still so rigid?

“Humans are underrated”: Why AI in cybersecurity isn’t a case of us or them

Meet us @CYBERUK 2019

RSA 2019 – Highlights

Government report states UK boards must improve cyber awareness – but how remains unclear

CompTIA and Immersive Labs issue penetration testing challenge

Exploiting SS7 to intercept text messages

Meet us at Cloud & Cyber Security Expo 2019

APT10 – Quasar RAT analysis

Why we’re yet to see the full potential of threat intelligence

Gamification is the key to making cyber learning addictive

The rise of financial fraud

Death of the classroom

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