Report: Malware for Macs on the Rise
It’s looks like Apple Macintosh systems may not be as impervious to cybersecurity threats as many end users have been led to believe. A report published this week by Malwarebytes Labs, the research arm of the provider of endpoint security software, finds that of the top 25 detections of malware ... Read More
Ryuk: Cult Character to Ransomware Villain
If a fan of anime or manga is asked their thoughts on Ryuk, a long discussion about the character popularized in Death Note will undoubtedly follow. Ask someone in the InfoSec community about Ryuk and equally long discussion will ensue—this time an equally interesting lecture about the plot, villains and ... Read More
SIEM More Relevant Than Ever When Securing the Edge
Cybersecurity pros have long looked at security information and event management (SIEM) as a necessary tool to gauge the security posture of a network. After all, a proper SIEM solution gives cybersecurity professionals a way to analyze security incidents and events and to correlate those events into something with meaning ... Read More
Cameras: The Backdoor of the Security Industry
Thomas Carnevale | | Aventura Technologies, china, corporate security, IP surveillance cameras, Malware, private label, Security CamerasPrivate-label security cameras can be a threat to corporate security. Here’s why. The U.S. Government is finally cracking down on the dirty little secret the security industry has been hiding for years. Last month the FBI raided and arrested the entire executive team of Aventura Technologies, a video surveillance system ... Read More
Hacking Ring Security Cameras: Amazon Makes it Easy
Richi Jennings | | Cloud Security, credential stuffing, Cybersecurity, education, Information Security, Nest, Ring, SB Blogwatch, security, Security NewsA bunch of childish script kiddies have been making the lives of Ring camera owners miserable ... Read More
Companies Ignoring Third-Party Breach Alerts
Sue Poremba | | Compliance, Cybersecurity, Data breach, legislation, notifications, regulations, third-party notificationWhat would you do if you found out through a third party that your organization had been breached and the information was discovered for sale on the dark web? The correct response is you would verify the authenticity of the third party and then graciously thank them for the notification ... Read More
Cyberhaven Applies Behavioral Analytics to Better Secure Data
Michael Vizard | | analytics, behavior analytics, Cybersecurity, DaBA, Data breach, Data Security, data trackerFresh off raising an additional $13 million in financing, Cyberhaven has launched a tool that enables cybersecurity teams to track how data is being moved across an extended enterprise. Cyberhaven CEO Volodymyr Kuznetsov said the Data Behavior Analytics (DaBA) service developed by the startup makes it possible to record and ... Read More
Encryption Wars, Part IV: Barr vs. Big Tech
Mark Rasch | | Attorney General, Communications Decency Act, encryption standards, FBI, Privacy, Section 230Will AG Barr succeed in his fight to empower the U.S. government with the ability to break strong encryption against tech companies? U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr once again is decrying the fact that tech companies are proposing strong security standards for data at rest and data in transmission. By ... Read More
Trend Micro Looks to the Cloud for Security
Michael Vizard | | Cloud, cloud services, Security as a Service, Trend Micro, Trend Micro Cloud One platformTrend Micro is the latest provider of cybersecurity tools and platforms to outline an ambitious agenda to deliver cybersecurity as a service via the cloud. Greg Young, vice president of Cybersecurity at Trend Micro, said the Trend Micro Cloud One platform scheduled to be available in the first quarter of ... Read More
AWS Previews Cloud Security Advances
Amazon Web Services (AWS) at its recent re:Invent 2019 conference previewed two tools to advance cloud security and made available a tool that promises to simplify audits. Available in preview now, Amazon Detective is a service that plugs into the AWS Management Console. Once invoked, Amazon Detective automatically begins distilling ... Read More
