Dark Reading Daily -- April 28, 2021

Expect an Increase in Attacks on AI Systems

Companies are quickly adopting machine learning but not focusing on how to verify systems and produce trustworthy results, new report shows.

Do Cyberattacks Affect Stock Prices? It Depends on the Breach

A security researcher explores how data breaches, ransomware attacks, and other types of cybercrime influence stock prices.

Challenging Our Education System to Nurture the Cyber Pipeline

Let's teach students how to teach themselves. Once we do that, we will have taught a generation of students how to think like hackers.

4 Ways CISOs Can Strengthen Their Security Resilience

Security pros must remember bad actors will target their infrastructure, using counter-incident response technology in the process.

XDR: A Game-Changer in Enterprise Threat Detection

Omdia's Eric Parizo highlights four capabilities that show how XDR technology is reinventing enterprise threat detection.

Emotet Malware Uninstalled From Infected Devices

A law enforcement update deployed to compromised machines in January has been pushed, effectively removing the malware.

Ransomware Recovery Costs Near $2M

The cost of recovering from a ransomware attack has more than doubled in one year, Sophos researchers report.

University Suspends Project After Researchers Submitted Vulnerable Linux Patches

A Linux maintainer pledges to stop taking code submissions from the University of Minnesota after a research team purposely submitted vulnerabilities to show software supply chain weaknesses.

7 Old IT Things Every New InfoSec Pro Should Know

Beneath all those containers and IoT devices, there's a rich patchwork of gear, protocols, and guidelines that have been holding it together since before you were born. Knowledge of those fundamentals is growing more valuable, not less.

Business Email Compromise Costs Businesses More Than Ransomware

Ransomware gets the headlines, but business paid out $1.8 billion last year to resolve BEC issues, according to an FBI report.

EDITORS' CHOICE

In Appreciation: Dan Kaminsky

Beloved security industry leader and researcher passes away unexpectedly at the age of 42.

10 Free Security Tools at Black Hat Asia 2021

Researchers are set to demonstrate a plethora of tools for conducting pen tests, vulnerability assessments, data forensics, and a wide range of other use cases.

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