New infosec products of the week: October 30, 2020
Confluera 2.0: Enhanced autonomous detection and response capabilities to protect cloud infrastructure Confluera XDR delivers a purpose-built cloud workload detection and …
Breaches down 51%, exposed records set new record with 36 billion so far
The number of records exposed has increased to a staggering 36 billion. There were 2,935 publicly reported breaches in the first three quarters of 2020, with the three months …
Network visibility critical in increasingly complex environments
Federal IT leaders across the country voiced the importance of network visibility in managing and securing their agencies’ increasingly complex and hybrid networks, according …
HITBCyberWeek virtual trainings: Mobile hacking, secure coding, bug hunting
The virtual edition of the HITBCyberWeek 2020 security conference starts on November 15. For four days, attendees will be able to hear keynotes and presentations from experts …
Easily exploitable RCE in Oracle WebLogic Server under attack (CVE-2020-14882)
A critical and easily exploitable remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2020-14882) in Oracle WebLogic Server is being targeted by attackers, SANS ISC has warned. Oracle …
Can automated penetration testing replace humans?
In the past few years, the use of automation in many spheres of cybersecurity has increased dramatically, but penetration testing has remained stubbornly immune to it. While …
What the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020 means for the future of connected devices
Connected devices are becoming more ingrained in our daily lives and the burgeoning IoT market is expected to grow to 41.6 billion devices by 2025. As a result of this rapid …
Political campaigns adopt surveillance capitalism at their own peril
Since the middle of the 20th century, commercial advertising and marketing techniques have made their way into the sphere of political campaigns. The tactics associated with …
Biggest WAN pain points: Security and service flexibility
Corporate WANs are failing to deliver on businesses’ priorities, with 55% of respondents citing security is the biggest pain point, 43% service flexibility, 36% supplier …
Businesses struggle with data security practices
43% of C-suite executives and 12% of small business owners (SBOs) have experienced a data breach, according to Shred-it. While businesses are getting better at protecting …
Most companies have high-risk vulnerabilities on their network perimeter
Positive Technologies performed instrumental scanning of the network perimeter of selected corporate information systems. A total of 3,514 hosts were scanned, including …
Report: The need for pervasive email security
As the number one threat vector for most organizations, email continues to be widely used by cybercriminals to penetrate organizations in support of a wide variety of …
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