Red teaming: Why a forward offense is the best defense
Companies are under constant threat. Opportunistic attackers scan the internet for weak points, motivated attackers target specific organizations for susceptibility to a scam …
Ransomware attacks hit 1 in 5 Americans
Anomali announced the results of a survey conducted by The Harris Poll. It includes responses from more than 2,000 American adults and reveals how Americans believe business …
Researchers were able to detect what is typed using just a smartphone
You likely know to avoid suspicious emails to keep hackers from gleaning personal information from your computer. But a new study from SMU (Southern Methodist University) …
Deception technology shifts power back to the defender
Users of deception technology reported a 12X improvement in the average number of days it takes to detect attackers operating within an enterprise network when compared to …
Routers from well-known manufacturers vulnerable to cross-router data leaks
While many organizations and home networks use a host and guest network on the same router hardware to increase security, a new study by Ben-Gurion University indicates that …
Total global shipments of secure embedded hardware to double by 2023
Accelerating demand for embedded security in industrial and automotive segments is driving the market for technologies such as secure microcontrollers (MCU) and trusted …
Week in review: New Nmap, lateral phishing tactics, Kubernetes security matures
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and podcasts: Critical Bluetooth flaw opens millions of devices to eavesdropping attacks A newly …
Critical Bluetooth flaw opens millions of devices to eavesdropping attacks
A newly disclosed vulnerability (CVE-2019-9506) in the Bluetooth Core Specification can be exploited by attackers to intercept and manipulate Bluetooth communications/traffic …
Closing the cyber skills gap: What to do next
On a global scale, cybersecurity is suffering from a severe shortage of experts. What is to be done? Organizations, government, academia and professional associations need to …
New infosec products of the week: August 16, 2019
BitSight Enterprise Analytics enables more effective risk management BitSight Enterprise Analytics helps security and risk leaders gain insight into the impact of risk …
Researchers reveal the latest lateral phishing tactics
Emails coming from legitimate, compromised accounts are difficult to spot, both for existing email protection systems and the recipients themselves. Lateral phishing tactics …
3,813 breaches were reported through June 30, exposing over 4.1 billion records
The number of reported breaches has gone up by 54% and the number of exposed records by 52% compared to the first six months of 2018 according to the 2019 MidYear QuickView …
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