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5 ways to tell you are not CISO material
PRIVACY PRIVACY As the role of the CISO continues to grow in importance and gain more responsibility, many cybersecurity practitioners may wonder if they have what it takes to be successful in the role. Technical expertise and experience are obviously huge assets. An effective CISO has the ability to evaluate and select security technology, communicate…
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Office of the Director of National Intelligence highlights cyber threats in 2023 Intelligence Threat Assessment
PRIVACY PRIVACY When the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) highlights a threat in its unclassified assessment and intimates that there is substantive supporting evidence available, one should not sit back and let the data points pass idly by — and we aren’t. The ODNI minced no words as they addressed China, Russia,…
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US Moves to Ban “Anti-Democratic” Spyware
PRIVACY PRIVACY White House says use of tools must be aligned with human rights Read More
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PwC UK partners with ReversingLabs to bring software supply chain security to third-party risk management
PRIVACY PRIVACY Advisory and professional services giant PwC UK is partnering with security firm ReversingLabs to develop a third-party risk management (TPRM) platform to help businesses address software supply chain security risks. Alongside ReversingLabs, the firm aims to help customers modernize traditional TPRM programs to better suit the modern software supply chain, operationalizing detection and…
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Biden administration seeks to tamp down the spyware market with a new ban
PRIVACY PRIVACY In a significant signal to spyware vendors, the Biden administration issued an executive order (EO) prohibiting federal government agencies from using commercial spyware “that poses significant counterintelligence or security risks to the United States Government.” The spyware covered by the EO is predominately malware designed to track and collect data from mobile phones…
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Researchers warn of two new variants of potent IcedID malware loader
PRIVACY PRIVACY Security researchers have seen attack campaigns using two new variants of IcedID, a banking Trojan program that has been used to deliver ransomware in recent years. The two new variants, one of which appears to be connected to the Emotet botnet, are lighter compared to the standard one because certain functionality has been…
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UK police reveal they are running fake DDoS-for-hire sites to collect details on cybercriminals
PRIVACY PRIVACY There’s bad news if you’re someone who is keen to launch a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack to boot a website off the internet, but don’t have the know-how to do it yourself. Rather than hiring the help of cybercriminals to bombard a site with unwanted traffic or kick rivals out of a video…
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Microsoft Fixes Security Flaw in Windows Screenshot Tools
PRIVACY PRIVACY Information disclosure vulnerability aCropalypse could enable malicious actors to recover sections of screenshots Read More
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Three Variants of IcedID Malware Discovered
PRIVACY PRIVACY The new variants hint that considerable effort is going into the future of IcedID and its codebase Read More
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New MacStealer Targets Catalina, Newer MacOS Versions
PRIVACY PRIVACY The malware can extract information from documents, browser cookies and login information Read More