Dark Reading Daily -- June 08, 2018

Bug Bounty Payouts Up 73% Per Vulnerability: Bugcrowd

Bug bounty programs grew along with payouts, which averaged $781 per vulnerability this year, researchers report.

Enterprise adoption of DevSecOps has surged in the past year, according to a study conducted at this year's RSA Conference.

Adobe Issues Emergency Patch for Flash Zero-Day

Adobe has patched four security vulnerabilities today, including a zero-day being actively exploited in the wild.

FBI Slaps New Charges Against Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry

Federal authorities charged Marcus Hutchins with lying to the government and authoring a second piece of malware in addition to the Kronos banking Trojan.

In Pursuit of Cryptography's Holy Grail

Homomorphic encryption eliminates the need for data exposure at any point - something that certainly would be welcome these days.

New Colorado Breach Notification Rules Signed Into Law

Colorado has enacted a new data breach notification law that contains some of the most stringent requirements in the US.

10 Open Source Security Tools You Should Know

Open source tools can be the basis for solid security and intense learning. Here are 10 you should know about for your IT security toolkit.

Researcher Successfully Hacked In-Flight Airplanes - From the Ground

IOActive researcher will demonstrate at Black Hat USA how satellite equipment can be 'weaponized.'

5 Tips for Protecting SOHO Routers Against the VPNFilter Malware

Most home office users need to simply power cycle their routers and disable remote access; enterprises with work-at-home employees should move NAS behind the firewall.

EDITORS' CHOICE

7 Variants (So Far) of Mirai

Mirai is an example of the newest trend in rapidly evolving, constantly improving malware. These seven variants show how threat actors are making bad malware worse.

Side-Channel Attacks & the Importance of Hardware-Based Security

Reliably evaluating the security of modern infrastructure requires a solid understanding of the hardware supporting it.

The Changing Role of the CISO