Analytics and Intelligence
2023 Cybersecurity Spending Increases to Combat Evolving Threats
A survey of more than 6,550 security professionals finds that while organizations continue to invest heavily in cybersecurity there’s still not a lot of confidence when it comes to actually being able ...
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Debunking 5 Myths About Detection-as-Code
Would you let misconceptions keep you from adopting a tool that can help your security team do its best work? In my ten years of building security monitoring solutions, I learned that ...
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Flashpoint Year In Review: 2022 Financial Threat Landscape
Flashpoint Team | | cyber threat intelligence, Data breaches, financial sector, Fraud, money laundering
The financial sector contains a wealth of sensitive data that attracts threat actors looking to profit. In 2022, Flashpoint analysts have identified multiple key impactful threats to the financial sector, including banking ...
GitHub Secret Scanning is now Free (as in Beer)
Richi Jennings | | Do you think they call this service their "Secret Scanta"?, GitHub, Microsoft, SB Blogwatch, secret key, secret keys, secret management, Secrets, Secrets detection, Secrets Management, secrets scanning, SecretScanner
Microsoft’s GitHub source control service will help stop devs accidentally embedding secrets in public code repositories. It’s a big problem ...
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The Near Future of Conflict Will Not be About Oil but Microchips
Hussein Farhat | | Cybersecurity, future, microchip shortage, microchips, microprocessors, technology
Given the global shortage of ‘new’ oil, an upcoming energy drought and the geopolitical effects that could occur if there’s a decade-long recession in China, the near future of conflict will not ...
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Moving Beyond Security Awareness to Security Education
Security awareness training should be part of every organization’s cybersecurity program. Employees can’t prevent risk if they don’t know what risk is. Even the most seasoned cybersecurity professional had to learn that ...
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Operation PowerOFF: DDoS Sites Denied Service (by US, UK, Europol)
Richi Jennings | | booter, booter services, booters and stressers, ddos, ddos services, Operation Power Off, Operation PowerOFF, SB Blogwatch, stresser, stresser services
Around 50 so-called “booter” DDoS sites have been nuked by international law enforcement. And seven of their alleged administrators have been charged ...
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Cybercriminals Leverage File-Based Attacks to Infiltrate Critical Networks
George Prichici | | cybercriminals, file-based attacks, Macros, Malware, Microsoft vulnerabilities, office
According to Verizon’s 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report, office docs and emails continue to be proven ways that cybercriminals deliver harmful payloads to gain access into organizations’ networks. Threat actors can conceal ...
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Zero-Trust: Restoring Resilience in the Cloud
Digital transformation and cloud computing have vastly expanded the modern attack surface—which now encompasses dispersed environments, distributed workloads, and assets sprawling across locations. Perimeter defenses alone cannot keep organizations secure 100 percent ...
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How Cybercrime Evolved Into a Business
When many people think of a cyberattacker, they think of an individual trying to make money or cause harm. But in reality, attackers today are often part of an organized matrix that ...
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