You need to regularly be reviewing news sources for announcements about cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits if you are working anywhere in the IT field. There have never been more threats to our digital footprints than there are right now, and attackers are getting more ingenious with their attacks every day.
I used to not care about following this type of news, but then the recent SharePoint legacy server exploit hit close to home for my team. We weren’t negatively impacted, but we could have been. Thankfully, other people at my company were already keeping on top of those things so we were able to act immediately to secure our server as soon as the vulnerability was announced.
My team is also diving heavily into the AI space, which has been riddled with vulnerabilities and hacks this year, which I’m also now able to keep on top of by following a few websites.
To make it easier to see recent news at a glance, I decided to make myself an RSS feed (is that outdated?) to follow a handful of the top cybersecurity news sites so that I could quickly get an overview of what’s being discussed.
Sites I am following
In my RSS feed for cybersecurity news, I am following these websites:
- Dark Reading
- The Hacker News
- SecurityWeek
- Ars Technica Security
The first two on the list, Dark Reading and The Hacker News, are the ones I end up clicking through to the most, but all have good feeds that you can follow easily. I personally am using feedly.com as my RSS reader tool, but you can follow the sites however you choose. Just make sure you read regularly since new threats are coming out all the time.
