| LATEST SECURITY NEWS & COMMENTARY | State-Sponsored Cyberattacks Target Medical Research Cancer research is a particular target among Chinese espionage groups, says security firm FireEye. Silence APT Group Broadens Attacks on Banks, Gets More Dangerous Over the past year, the financial damage linked to the Russian-speaking threat group has spiked fivefold, Group-IP says. New FISMA Report Shows Progress, Gaps in Federal Cybersecurity No major incidents mixed with continuing gaps in implementation paint an improving, but still muddy, picture of cybersecurity in the federal government. MoviePass Leaves Credit Card Numbers, Personal Data Exposed Online Thousands of customers' credit card numbers, MoviePass card numbers, and sensitive data were left in an unprotected database. 'Box Shield' Brings New Security Controls New controls and threat detection capabilities built into Box aim to prevent accidental data leakage and misuse. 'Phoning Home': Your Latest Data Exfiltration Headache Companies phone enterprise customer data home securely and for a variety of perfectly legitimate and useful reasons. The problems stem from insufficient disclosure. Ransomware Hits Fortnite Players Ransomware masquerading as game "cheats" is hitting Fortnite players. Fortunately, there are ways to recover without paying a ransom. New Confidential Computing Consortium Includes Google, Intel, Microsoft The Linux Foundation plans to form a community to "define and accelerate" the adoption of confidential computing. Splunk Buys SignalFx for $1.05 Billion Deal will yield 'one platform that can monitor the entire enterprise application lifecycle,' Splunk CEO says. MORE NEWS & COMMENTARY | |
| EDITORS' CHOICE 7 Big Factors Putting Small Businesses At Risk Small organizations still face a long list of security threats. These threats and vulnerabilities should be top of mind. NEW FROM THE EDGE How to Avoid Technical Debt in Open Source Projects Engineering teams have only a certain amount of capacity. Cutting down the volume of rework inherent in the open source business model begins with three best practices. FROM THE DARK READING NEWS DESK @BLACK HAT USA eSentire Blends Managed Detection Response With Machine Learning While many infosec pros believe they're getting managed detection response (MDR) from their managed security service providers, that's not necessarily the case, according to Eldon Sprickerhoff, Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of eSentire. Adding machine learning to the mix helps automate MDR, strengthening an organization's security posture. |
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