Dark Reading Daily -- August 28, 2020

Is China the World's Greatest Cyber Power?

While the US, Russia, Israel, and several European nations all have sophisticated cyber capabilities, one threat intelligence firm argues that China's aggressive approach to cyber operations has made it "perhaps the world's greatest cyber power."

Vulnerability Volume Poised to Overwhelm Infosec Teams

The collision of Microsoft and Oracle patches on the same day has contributed to risk and stress for organizations.

Old Malware Tool Acquires New Tricks

Latest version of Qbot has acquired a new feature for collecting email threads from Outlook clients.

How CISOs Can Play a New Role in Defining the Future of Work

Rather than just reacting to security issues in the COVID-19 era, CISOs are now in a position to be change agents alongside their C-suite peers.

The Inside Threat from Psychological Manipulators

How internal manipulators can actually degrade your organization's cyber defense, and how to defend against them.

DDoS Attacks Halt NZ Exchange Trading for Third Day

New Zealand Exchange officials say the motive for the attacks is unclear.

Fastly to Acquire Signal Sciences for $775M

Signal Sciences' technology will be used to build a new web application and API security tool called [email protected]

Cryptominer Found Embedded in AWS Community AMI

Researchers advise Amazon Web Services users running Community Amazon Machine Images to verify them for potentially malicious code.

MITRE Releases 'Shield' Active Defense Framework

Free knowledge base offers techniques and tactics for engaging with and better defending against network intruders.

Attackers Use Unicode & HTML to Bypass Email Security Tools

Researchers spot cybercriminals using new techniques to help malicious phishing emails slip past detection tools.

EDITORS' CHOICE

6 Signs Your Supply Chain Risk Just Shot Up

Risk levels are not steady states. Here are six indications that the danger posed by your supply chain is headed in the wrong direction.

The Fatal Flaw in Data Security

Simply stated: No matter how sophisticated your security software is, data cannot be simultaneously used and secured. But that may be changing soon.

FROM THE EDGE

Burning to a Crisp

According to the 2020 Black Hat Attendee Survey, infosec professionals are even more burnt-out this year than they were in 2019.

7 New Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities That Could Put Your Enterprise at Risk