Dark Reading Daily -- January 09, 2021

How the Shady Zero-Day Sales Game Is Evolving

Zero-day vulns are cold, while access-as-a-service is hot. Here's how black market (and gray market) deals go down.

Friction Affliction: How to Balance Security With User Experience

There's a fine line between protecting against suspicious, malicious, or unwanted activity and making users jump through hoops to prove themselves.

Homomorphic Encryption: The 'Golden Age' of Cryptography

The ability to perform complex calculations on encrypted data promises a new level of privacy and data security for companies in the public and private sectors. So when can they get started?

5 Email Threat Predictions for 2021

As domains get cheaper, account takeovers get easier, and cloud computing usage expands, email-borne attacks will take advantage.

Cartoon: Shakin' It Up at the Office

And the winner of our December cartoon caption contest is ...

Poll: Endpoint Agita

What are your most significant endpoint security concerns? Take our poll.

7 Infamous Moments in Adobe Flash's Security History

End-of-life is here: Adobe's support for Flash is gone as of Jan. 1. Here's what we won't miss about the multimedia software platform.

The 3 Most Common Types of BEC Attacks (And What You Can Do About Them)

Always be skeptical and double check credentials.

The Coolest Hacks of 2020

Despite a pandemic and possibly the worst cyberattack campaign ever waged against the US, the year still had some bright spots when it came to "good" and creative hacks.

EDITORS' CHOICE

Security Pros Reflect on 2020

Eight cybersecurity leaders go deep on their most valuable (and very human) takeaways from a year like no other we've known.

2021 Security Budgets: 6 Top Priorities, New Realities

An unprecedented 2020 has shaken up security leaders' usual list of must-have technologies. What's on the horizon? They share with us their spending plans for 2021.

FROM THE NEWS DESK

FireEye's Mandia: 'Severity-Zero Alert' Led to Discovery of SolarWinds Attack

CEO Kevin Mandia shared some details on how his company rooted out the major cyberattack campaign affecting US government and corporate networks.

2020: The Year in Security