Dark Reading Daily -- September 18, 2020

Indictments Unlikely to Deter China's APT41 Activity

So far, at least, the threat group has not let public scrutiny slow it down, security researchers say.

Iranian Hackers Indicted for Stealing Aerospace & Satellite Tracking Data

Also, the US Treasury sanctioned Iranian attack group APT39 following a years-long malware campaign.

Sumo Logic IPO Prices Higher Than Expected

Co-founder and CTO Christian Beedgen explains what this means for the future of the cloud-based data analytics company.

Time for CEOs to Stop Enabling China's Blatant IP Theft

Protecting intellectual property in the name of US economic and national security should be part of every company's fiduciary duty.

Struggling to Secure Remote IT? 3 Lessons from the Office

The great remote work experiment has exacerbated existing challenges and exposed new gaps, but there are things to be learned from office challenges.

Ransomware Gone Awry Has Fatal Consequences

An attack that knocked hospital systems offline reportedly ends in death for patient who had to be sent to another facility.

CISA Issues Alert for Microsoft Netlogon Vulnerability

CISA has issued an alert following the discovery of publicly available exploit code for Windows elevation of privilege flaw CVE-2020-1472.

6 Lessons IT Security Can Learn From DevOps

DevOps has taken over enterprise software development. The discipline has lessons for IT security -- here are a quick half-dozen.

Large Cloud Providers Much Less Likely Than Enterprises to Get Breached

Pen-test results also show a majority of organizations have few protections against attackers already on the network.

EDITORS' CHOICE

Post-COVID-19 Cybersecurity Spending Update

Security spending growth will slow in 2020, but purse strings are looser than for other areas of IT.

Open Source Security's Top Threat and What To Do About It

With open source developers regularly churning out new tools, the risk landscape has become too fragmented to properly monitor.

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Don't Fall for It! Defending Against Deepfakes

Detecting doctored media has become tricky -- and risky -- business. Here's how organizations can better protect themselves from fake video, audio, and other forms of content.

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