Dark Reading Daily -- February 20, 2018

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February 20, 2018

LATEST SECURITY NEWS & COMMENTARY

Siemens Leads Launch of Global Cybersecurity Initiative

The new 'Charter of Trust' aims to make security a key element of the digital economy, critical infrastructure.

13 Russians Indicted for Massive Operation to Sway US Election

Russian nationals reportedly used stolen American identities and infrastructure to influence the 2016 election outcome.

Russian Hackers Sentenced in Heartland Payment Systems Breach Case

Two more men involved in the massive payment card theft from multiple major US corporations that began in 2007 now sent to federal prison.

Rise of the 'Hivenet': Botnets That Think for Themselves

These intelligent botnet clusters swarm compromised devices to identify and assault different attack vectors all at once.

FedEx Customer Data Exposed on Unsecured S3 Server

Thousands of documents from US and international citizens were exposed on an Amazon S3 bucket configured for public access.

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HOT TOPICS
Fileless Malware: Not Just a Threat, but a Super-Threat Exploits are getting more sophisticated by the day, and cybersecurity technology just isn't keeping up. 8 Nation-State Hacking Groups to Watch in 2018 The aliases, geographies, famous attacks, and behaviors of some of the most prolific threat groups. Windows 10 Critical Vulnerability Reports Grew 64% in 2017 The launch and growth of new operating systems is mirrored by an increase in reported vulnerabilities. MORE

EDITORS' CHOICE

Encrypted Attacks Continue to Dog Perimeter Defenses

Attacks using SSL to obfuscate malicious traffic finding fertile ground for growth.

AI and Machine Learning: Breaking Down Buzzwords

Security experts explain two of today's trendiest technologies to explain what they mean and where you need them.

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Hear from experts on application security and the DevOps movement discuss the steps that enterprises can take to build security into the app development process.
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In this session, we'll explore the organizational culture that must shift to include network managers in digital initiatives, and the technical options available to help modernize network systems, including software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) and network function virtualization (NFV), network ...

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Partner Perspectives

The Mirai Botnet Is Attacking Again...

And the spinoff bots - and all their command and control hostnames buried in the morass of digital data - are hilarious.

The GDPR Clock Is Running Out. Now What?

Many organizations impacted by new European Union data privacy rules that go into effect May 25 are still blind to some of the basics.

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.

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The State of Ransomware
Ransomware has become one of the most prevalent new cybersecurity threats faced by today's enterprises. This new report from Dark Reading includes feedback from IT and IT security professionals about their organization's ransomware experiences, defense plans, and malware challenges. Find ...
How Enterprises Are Attacking the IT Security Problem
Enterprises are spending more of their IT budgets on cybersecurity technology. How do your organization's security plans and strategies compare to what others are doing? Here's an in-depth look.

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Dragos Releases Dragos Platform 1.2

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