cyberattacks

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke to the G20 Summit’s “Digital Transformation” panel this week, offering the benefits of his embattled country’s cyber-defense experience to G20-allied countries. Zelensky noted that Ukraine’s “IT army,” made up of talent pooled from companies across the country, has successfully stopped more than 1,300 Russian cyberattacks over the past eight months…

Application Security, Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

A few state and local governments appeared to be hit by a relatively rudimentary form of cyberattack that periodically made public websites unreachable. But U.S. and local officials said Wednesday that none breached vote-counting infrastructure. “We have seen no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was any way compromised…

Application Security, Software Security

Issued by: Security Week

The new funding round was led by U.S. Venture Partners, with additional investment from Bess Ventures, Citi Ventures, Stanford University, World Trade Ventures, and angel investors. Founded in 2016, the Rockville, Maryland-based firm provides physical layer-based asset risk management capabilities, helping organizations deal with known and shadow IT assets at any scale. Basically, Sepio helps…

Application Security, Network Security, Software Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Fortifying cybersecurity defenses remains a work in progress for many organizations, who acknowledge their shortcomings but have yet to commit the necessary resources to the effort, new research from CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the information technology (IT) industry and workforce, reveals. “Risk mitigation is the key, the filter through which everything should be viewed.”…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

Both companies have confirmed being breached. Uber admitted that a hacker used compromised employee credentials to access internal tools, but downplayed impact, insisting that development systems, user accounts, and sensitive information were not accessed. In the case of Rockstar, the hacker leaked videos recorded during the development of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto (GTA) 6…

Application Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Twitter’s former head of security has blown the whistle on what he characterizes as sprawling cybersecurity weaknesses, including vulnerabilities that could lay the social media platform open to cyberattacks that could have major national-security implications. That’s the allegation from Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, who sent a 200+-page disclosure to Congress detailing issues that he claims could…

Network Security

Issued by: Trend Micro Blog

Transport layer security (TLS) is the modern version of the now-deprecated secure socket layer (SSL) protocol. Due to multiple vulnerabilities within SSL, organizations require a more robust protocol to coincide with the increasing number of web-based technologies. For example, unlike SSL, TSL allows you to negotiate encryption on regular ports and protocols such as IMAP…

Application Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

.Adaptiva today released the inaugural “Managing Risks and Costs at the Edge” report. Sponsored by Adaptiva and conducted by Ponemon Institute, 629 IT and IT security practitioners in the United States were surveyed, representing an average organizational headcount of 13,213 and IT budget of $184,366,500. Respondents indicated that most enterprises struggle to maintain visibility and…

Mobile Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Apple today announced a new feature called Lockdown Mode that automatically locks down any system functionality that could be hijacked by even the most sophisticated, state-sponsored mercenary spyware to compromise a user device. While Apple acknowledged in its statement announcing the initiative that the number of users who might need Lockdown Mode is small, protecting…