According to a recent survey, 90% of CISOs running teams in small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) use a managed detection and response (MDR) service. That’s a 53% increase from last year. Why the dramatic shift to MDR? CISOs at organizations of any size, but especially SMEs, are realizing that the threat landscape and the way we […]
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Hundreds of databases on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) are exposing personal identifiable information (PII), new findings from Mitiga, a cloud incident response company, show. “Leaking PII in this manner provides a potential treasure trove for threat actors – either during the reconnaissance phase of the cyber kill chain or extortionware/ransomware campaigns,” researchers Ariel
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ACM.113 Example demonstrating how swallowing errors can come back to bite This is a continuation of my series of posts on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. I wrote a about error handling in my series on secure programming. I explained that it is not advisable to swallow errors, of in other words catch them in some code and […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsComputer code developed by a company called Pushwoosh is in about 8,000 Apple and Google smartphone apps. The company pretends to be American when it is actually Russian. According to company documents publicly filed in Russia and reviewed by Reuters, Pushwoosh is headquartered in the Siberian town of Novosibirsk, where it is registered as a […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsThe report outlines recent APT group activity from Russia, China, Iran and North Korea
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We’ve been discussing extended detection and response (XDR) for years now, but a fundamental question remains: Just what the heck are we talking about, anyway? Alarmingly, this continues to be a pertinent question. According to ESG research, 62% of security professionals claim to be “very familiar” with the term XDR, up from just 24% in […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsReport suggests high demand for talent from security sector employers
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsSecurity and privacy concerns mount for those attending matches
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Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed new samples of malware called RapperBot that are being used to build a botnet capable of launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against game servers. “In fact, it turns out that this campaign is less like RapperBot than an older campaign that appeared in February and then mysteriously disappeared in […]
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