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 February 14, 2019
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2018 Was Second-Most Active Year for Data Breaches
Hacking by external actors caused most breaches, but Web intrusions and exposures compromised more records, according to Risk Based Security.
Ex-US Intel Officer Charged with Helping Iran Target Her Former Colleagues
Monica Witt, former Air Force and counterintel agent, has been indicted for conspiracy activities with Iranian government, hackers.
Microsoft, Adobe Both Close More Than 70 Security Issues
With their regularly scheduled Patch Tuesday updates, both companies issued fixes for scores of vulnerabilities in their widely used software.
Client-Side DNS Attack Emerges From Academic Research
A new DNS cache poisoning attack is developed as part of the research toward a dissertation.
Cybersecurity and the Human Element: We're All Fallible
We examine the issue of fallibility from six sides: end users, security leaders, security analysts, IT security administrators, programmers, and attackers.
A Dog's Life: Dark Reading Caption Contest Winners
What do a telephony protocol, butt-sniffing, and multifactor authentication have in common? A John Klossner cartoon! And the winners are ...
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Ransomware Attack Via MSP Locks Customers Out of Systems
Vulnerable plugin for a remote management tool gave attackers a way to encrypt systems belonging to all customers of a US-based MSP.

Devastating Cyberattack on Email Provider Destroys 18 Years of Data
All data belonging to US users-including backup copies-have been deleted in catastrophe, VMEmail says.

New Zombie 'POODLE' Attack Bred from TLS Flaw
Citrix issues update for encryption weakness dogging the popular security protocol.

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2019 Security Spending Outlook
Cybersecurity and IT risk budgets continue to grow. Here's how they'll be spent.
What the Government Shutdown Teaches Us about Cybersecurity
As lawmakers face a Friday deadline to prevent the federal government from closing a second time, we examine the cost to the digital domain, both public and private.
Scammers Fall in Love with Valentine's Day
Online dating profiles and social media accounts add to the rich data sources that allow criminals to tailor attacks.
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