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Data loss prevention strategies for long-term remote teams

February 5, 2021 9:07 am

Advertisement Before the recent pandemic, many executives began appreciating the risks and opportunities associated with cybersecurity. A 2019 survey on cybersecurity priorities from Optiv Security found that 96% of CISOs are taking “a more strategic approach to cybersecurity,” and many were even willing to slow business development to account for cybersecurity-related risks. This was great...

The state of the dark web: Insights from the underground

January 21, 2021 10:56 am

Advertisement Lately, dark web actors have one more worry: getting caught by law enforcement. Tracking dark web illegal activities has been a cat-and-mouse game for authorities, but in the end, they often catch their adversaries and seize the dodgy money. On the night of the 2020 presidential election, for example, US government officials managed to...

The future history of medical device cybersecurity

January 13, 2021 8:12 am

Advertisement In 1555, Nostradamus published his famous Les Prophéties containing obfuscated prophecies for the world to come. Some believe that one of these predictions pertains to the year 2020 and it reads, in part: “The false trumpet concealing madness / will cause Byzantium to change its laws.” Yeah… I have no idea what that means...

SaaS Security Company Grip Security Emerges From Stealth

Issued by: Security Week

Grip Security has developed a platform that is designed to help organizations discover, monitor and secure their SaaS applications, regardless of where they are located and what types of devices they are running on. The company claims its platform is easy to deploy, it doesn’t...

Druva Raises $147 Million at $2 Billion Valuation

Issued by: Security Week

The funding round was led by investment group Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), with participation from Neuberger Berman, Viking Global Investors and Atreides Management. The money will be used to continue the company’s expansion. Druva has developed a cloud-nacybersecuritytive platform that helps...

Europol Report Highlights Pandemic’s Effect on Cybercrime

Issued by: Security Week

Organized crime is not limited to cybercrime, but cybercrime has become a major part of organized criminal activity. Europol sees this increasing – business transformation, the increasingly digital society, and the growth of remote working all provide new vulnerabilities and more opportunities for exploitation. “Critical...

FCC to Focus Efforts on 5G, Software and Cloud Service Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

Last Thursday (April 15th), Rosenworcel made a statement on future priorities by reestablishing the Communications, Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) with a focus on 5g networks and software and cloud services vulnerabilities. “I am committed to working with our federal partners and the private...

Google Broke Australian Law Over Location Data Collection: Court

Issued by: Security Week

The US company faces potential fines of "many millions" of dollars over the case, which was brought by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), the regulators' chief Rod Sims said. The federal court found that in 2017 and 2018 Google misled some users of...

Google Project Zero Announces 2021 Updates to Vulnerability Disclosure Policy

Issued by: Security Week

Project Zero has announced three major changes to its vulnerability disclosure policy in 2021, compared to 2020. Until now, if Project Zero researchers found a security hole in a product, it was disclosed after exactly 90 days, regardless of when a patch was released or...

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Google Project Zero Announces 2021 Updates to Vulnerability Disclosure Policy

FBI Agents Secretly Deleted Web Shells From Hacked Microsoft Exchange Servers

Collaboration Platforms Increasingly Abused for Malware Distribution, Data Exfiltration

Chinese Researchers Earn Another $20,000 for Chrome Sandbox Escape

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