Dark Reading Daily -- September 09, 2019

8 Ways to Spot an Insider Threat

The good news is most insider threats derive from negligence, not malicious intent. The bad news is the frequency of negligence is already ahead of where it was in 2018.

Meet FPGA: The Tiny, Powerful, Hackable Bit of Silicon at the Heart of IoT

Field-programmable gate arrays are flexible, agile-friendly components that populate many infrastructure and IoT devices - and have recently become the targets of researchers finding vulnerabilities.

'It Takes Restraint': A Seasoned CISO's Sage Advice for New CISOs

Todd Fitzgerald wrote the books on being a chief information security officer. Here he offers tips on what to do and what not to do in the first few months of a new CISO job.

Ask the Experts

Which Security Metrics Should I Use?

Figuring that out actually begins with a broader question, says Stacey Halota, vice president, information security and privacy, at Graham Holding.

Cartoon Contest: Bedtime Stories

Feeling creative? Submit your caption in the comments, and our panel of experts will reward the winner with a $25 Amazon gift card.

New Technique Makes Passwords 14M Percent Harder to Crack, Nonprofit Claims

Tide's method for protecting passwords splinters them up into tiny pieces and stores them on distributed nodes.

Phishing Campaign Uses SharePoint to Slip Past Defenses

Cybercriminals targeting financial institutions in the UK bypassed Symantec email gateway and other perimeter technologies.

Chinese Group Built Advanced Trojan by Reverse Engineering NSA Attack Tool

APT3 quietly monitored an NSA attack on its systems and used the information to build a weapon of its own.

EDITORS' CHOICE

7 Steps to Web App Security

Emerging technologies are introducing entirely new ways to reach, act, and interact with people. That makes app security more important than ever.

3 Promising Technologies Making an Impact on Cybersecurity

The common thread: Each acts as a force multiplier, adding value to every other security technology around it.

DARK READING TECH DIGEST

7 Threats & Disruptive Forces Changing the Face of Cybersecurity

Dark Reading examines the research revealed at Black Hat USA and takes a look at some of the biggest emerging threats and disruptive forces that are changing the face of cybersecurity today.