Dark Reading Daily -- September 26, 2017

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September 26, 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.

After DHS Notice, 21 States Reveal They Were Targeted During Election

Election officials in swing states Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania among those who report Russian state-sponsored attackers targeted their systems.

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.

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.

Privacy Shield Framework Gains Popularity in EU, US: Report

The IAPP-EY Privacy Governance Survey shows marked interest in the Privacy Shield framework to transfer personal data.

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HOT TOPICS
1.9 Billion Data Records Exposed in First Half of 2017 Every second, 122 records are exposed in breaches around the globe, a new report shows. And that's doesn't even include the new Equifax breach data. 10 Hot Cybersecurity Funding Rounds in Q3 The first two quarters of 2017 have been the most active ever in five years from a cybersecurity investment standpoint. Here's how the third quarter has shaped up. 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. MORE

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10 Security Product Flaw Scares

CCleaner compromise puts the crown on several years' worth of headlines about cybersecurity product weaknesses.

Tech Resources

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How to Talk to Your Management about IT Security
This webinar will bring you some new methods for describing and measuring your cybersecurity initiatives so that they can be understood by even the most business-oriented executives.
IP Intelligence: The Utility Player for Your Online Business
Join us as we explore the many benefits of IP Intelligence, and how you can use IPI to improve your customer experience, reduce fraud, improve security, protect digital content, and more. It's the utility player for your online business.

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Partner Perspectives

Where Do Security Vulnerabilities Come From?

There are three major causes: code quality, complexity, and trusted data inputs.

Artificial Intelligence: Getting the Results You Want

Finding a vendor that doesn't claim to do AI is hard these days. But getting the benefits you need and expect is even harder.

The Hunt for IoT: The Rise of Thingbots

Across all of our research, every indication is that today's "thingbots" - botnets built exclusively from Internet of Things devices - will become the infrastructure for a future Darknet.

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[Security Breach Report] Overall Impact of & Steps to Prevent Breaches
Despite the escalation of cybersecurity staffing and technology, enterprises continue to suffer data breaches and compromises at an alarming rate. How do these breaches occur? How are enterprises responding, and what is the impact of these compromises on the business? ...
[Security] Budgets, Plans & Priorities
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 ...

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