Dark Reading Daily -- May 17, 2018

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May 17, 2018

LATEST SECURITY NEWS & COMMENTARY

Frequency & Costs of DNS-Based Attacks Soar

The average cost of a DNS attack in the US has climbed 57% over the last year to $654,000 in 2018, a survey from EfficientIP shows.

Newly Discovered Malware Targets Telegram Desktop

Russian-speaking attacker behind new malware capable of lifting credentials, cookies, desktop cache, and key files.

IT Pros Worried About IoT But Not Prepared to Secure It

Few organizations have a security policy in place for Internet of Things devices, new survey shows.

Want Your Daughter to Succeed in Cyber? Call Her John

It's time to "do the right thing" when it comes to gender in the hiring and promotion of women in cybersecurity. Four women (and a man named John) offer practical solutions for shifting the balance.

FIDO Alliance Appoints Facebook to Board of Directors

Facebook joins Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Intel, all among major influential tech companies backing FIDO authentication.

Hackers Stole Funds from Mexican Banks

Attack targeted nation's bank payment system with shades of SWIFT heist.

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8 Ways Hackers Can Game Air Gap Protections Isolating critical systems from connectivity isn't a guarantee they can't be hacked. Phishing Attack Bypasses Two-Factor Authentication Hacker Kevin Mitnick demonstrates a phishing attack designed to abuse multi-factor authentication and take over targets' accounts. Gandcrab Ransomware Exploits Website Vulnerabilities Researchers find campaigns distributing Gandcrab by hosting malware on legitimate websites with poor security measures. MORE

EDITORS' CHOICE

7 Tools for Stronger IoT Security, Visibility

If you don't know what's on your IoT network, you don't know what to protect -- or protect from. These tools provide visibility into your network so you can be safe with (and from) what you see.

Taming the Chaos of Application Security: 'We Built an App for That'

Want to improve the state of secure software coding? Hide the complexity from developers.

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[Last Chance] Today's Dark Reading Crash Course
Hear as a top expert discusses the many - and sometimes hidden - costs of a data breach, including its impact on customers and end users.
Cyber Threats to ICS, Are You Ready?
Top experts offer insight on the threat posed to industrial control systems (ICS) and other vertical-industry systems, and how you can expand your enterprise security strategies to protect them.

Partner Perspectives

Electroneum Cryptomining Targets Microsoft IIS 6.0 Vulnerability

New campaign shows that there are still systems exposed to the year-old CVE-2017-7269 vuln on an operating system that was declared end-of-life three years ago.

Report: More Breaches Despite Increasing Security Budgets

Lack of security talent, low security awareness among employees, and too much data to analyze tops the list of cyberthreats in the 2018 Cyberthreat Defense Threat Report from CyberEdge group.

4 Critical Applications and How to Protect Them

Since critical apps are, well, critical, security teams must take preventive measures to keep attackers from exploiting their vulnerabilities.

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[Dark Reading Report] Navigating the Threat Intelligence Maze
How Enterprises Are Attacking the IT Security Problem
Enterprises are spending more of their IT budgets on cybersecurity technology. How do your organization's security plans and strategies compare to what others are doing? Here's an in-depth look.

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Research Conducted By Comodo Ca Reveals That More Than 1 Million Distrusted Website Certificates From Symantec Remain In Use

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