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 May 30, 2019
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WannaCry Lives On in 145K Infected Devices
Data from the last half year shows devices worldwide infected with the self-propagating ransomware, putting organizations with poor patching initiatives at risk.
FirstAm Leak Highlights Importance of Verifying the Basics
The Fortune 500 giant in the real estate industry missed a basic vulnerability in its website, leaving as many as 885 million sensitive records accessible to attackers. The fix: teaching developers the top 10 security issues and frequent testing.
Emotet Made Up 61% of Malicious Payloads in Q1
The botnet has displaced credential stealers, stand-alone downloaders, and RATs in the overall threat landscape.
Russian Nation-State Hacking Unit's Tools Get More Fancy
APT28/Fancy Bear has expanded its repertoire to more than 30 commands for infecting systems, executing code, and reconnaissance, researchers have found.
FEC Gives Green Light for Free Cybersecurity Help in Federal Elections
Official opinion issued by the Federal Election Commission to nonprofit Defending Digital Campaigns is good news for free and reduced-cost security offerings to political candidates and committees.
Cybercrime: Looking Beyond the Dark Web
Fighting cybercrime requires visibility into much more than just the Dark Web. Here's where to look and a glimpse of what you'll find.
Google's Origin & the Danger of Link Sharing
How the act of sharing links to files stored in a public cloud puts organizations at risk, and what security teams can do to safeguard data and PII.
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NSS Labs Admits Its Test of CrowdStrike Falcon Was 'Inaccurate'
CrowdStrike, NSS Labs reach confidential settlement over 2017 endpoint product testing dispute.

Researcher Publishes Four Zero-Day Exploits in Three Days
The exploits for local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Windows could be integrated into malware before Microsoft gets a chance to fix the issues.

How Security Vendors Can Address the Cybersecurity Talent Shortage
The talent gap is too large for any one sector, and cybersecurity vendors have a big role to play in helping to close it.

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8 Ways to Authenticate Without Passwords
Passwordless authentication has a shot at becoming more ubiquitous in the next few years. We take a look at where things stand at the moment.
'Cattle, Not Pets' & the Rise of Security-as-Code
Nearly a decade in, the famous analogy has underpinned a sea change in enterprise IT, but still falls short of the security mark. More recent developments can help.
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