Dark Reading Weekly -- September 28, 2017

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September 28, 2017

LATEST SECURITY NEWS & COMMENTARY

Breach at Deloitte Exposes Emails, Client Data

Intrusion may have resulted from company's failure to properly secure a key administrator account.

CCleaner Malware Targeted Tech Giants Cisco, Google, Microsoft

The backdoor discovered in Avast's CCleaner targeted top tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Samsung, Sony, VMware, and Cisco.

Cybercrime Costs Each Business $11.7M Per Year

The most expensive attacks are malware infections, which cost global businesses $2.4 million per incident.

Why Your Business Must Care about Privacy

It might not have something to hide, but it definitely has something to protect.

Microsoft Builds Automation into Windows Defender ATP

Automation can help manage and respond to alert overflow, but will come with its own specific set of challenges.

How to Live by the Code of Good Bots

Following these four tenets will show the world that your bot means no harm.

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HOT TOPICS
10 Security Product Flaw Scares CCleaner compromise puts the crown on several years' worth of headlines about cybersecurity product weaknesses. PassGAN: Password Cracking Using Machine Learning Researchers demo how deep neural networks can be trained to generate passwords better than the best password-cracking tools. Security's #1 Problem: Economic Incentives The industry rewards cutting corners rather than making software safe. Case in point: the Equifax breach. MORE

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

7 SIEM Situations That Can Sack Security Teams

SIEMS are considered an important tool for incident response, yet a large swath of users find seven major problems when working with SIEMs.

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Building a Cybersecurity Architecture to Combat Today's Risks
"Layered defense" has traditionally been the modus operandi of IT security, but this approach can't be counted on to stand up to today's threats and attacks. In addition, attack surfaces are growing every day as companies adopt technologies like cloud ...
What You Need to Know about GDPR
GDRP is an acronym that stands for General Data Protection Regulation and it's designed to give control of personal data back to individuals and take it out of the hands of the companies that collect it for commercial use. It ...

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Enterprises are spending an unprecedented amount of money on IT security -- where does it all go? In this survey, Dark Reading polled senior IT management on security budgets and spending plans, and their priorities for the coming year. Download ...
[Interop ITX 2017] State Of DevOps Report
The DevOps movement brings application development and infrastructure operations together to increase efficiency and deploy applications more quickly. But embracing DevOps means making significant cultural, organizational, and technological changes. This research report will examine how and why IT organizations are ...

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