Dark Reading Daily -- February 10, 2018

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February 10, 2018

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Google Paid $2.9M for Vulnerabilities in 2017

The Google Vulnerability Reward Program issued a total of 1,230 rewards in 2017. The single largest payout was $112,500.

Cyber Warranties: What to Know, What to Ask

The drivers and details behind the growth of cyber warranties, which more businesses are using to guarantee their products.

Back to Basics: AI Isn't the Answer to What Ails Us in Cyber

The irony behind just about every headline-grabbing data breach we've seen in recent years is that they all could have been prevented with simple cyber hygiene.

Russian Authorities Arrest Engineers for Cryptocurrency Mining at Nuclear Weapons Site

The nuclear weapons facility employees reportedly tried to mine cryptocurrency via a supercomputer.

Sacramento Bee Databases Hit with Ransomware Attack

The Bee did not pay ransom and deleted its databases to prevent future attacks, according to its publisher.

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New Zero-Day Ransomware Evades Microsoft, Google Cloud Malware Detection Shurl0ckr, a form of Gojdue ransomware, was not detected on SharePoint or Google Drive. New POS Malware Steals Data via DNS Traffic UDPoS is disguised to appear like a LogMeIn service pack, Forcepoint says. 2017 Smashed World's Records for Most Data Breaches, Exposed Information Five mega-breaches last year accounted for more than 72% of all data records exposed in 2017. MORE

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8 Nation-State Hacking Groups to Watch in 2018

The aliases, geographies, famous attacks, and behaviors of some of the most prolific threat groups.

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Building Your Identity-aware Infrastructure
Join Darran Rolls, the CTO & CISO of SailPoint, the leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Identity Governance and Administration, as he demonstrates how to build an identity-aware infrastructure.
Strategies for Monitoring & Measuring Cloud Security
In this Dark Reading webinar, a top expert offers a look at practices and tools that will help your team monitor security in IT environments that incorporate many cloud applications and services.

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Partner Perspectives

BrickerBot: Internet Vigilantism Ends Don't Justify the Means

However noble the intention, obtaining unauthorized access to devices and making them unusable is illegal and undermines the work of ethical researchers.

Top Cloud Security Misconceptions Plaguing Enterprises

Contrary to popular opinion, there is no one single cloud. There are a wealth of cloud-based providers that own dedicated server space across the globe. Here's how to find the best fit for your company.

Ramnit's Holiday Shopping Spree: Retailers & E-commerce

This past season, the authors of a traditional banking Trojan focused on what people do between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day: shop, eat, check their bank account, and entertain.

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Radiflow Reveals First Documented Cryptocurrency Malware Attack on a SCADA Network

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