The Perils of Ignoring Cybersecurity Basics – Dark Reading
The massive outage involving a faulty Falcon update is an excellent illustration of what happens when organizations neglect security fundamentals. – Read More
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Your IT Systems Are Being Attacked. Are You Prepared? – Dark Reading
Company leadership needs to ensure technology teams are managing continuous monitoring, automated testing, and alignment with business needs across their enterprise. – Read More
American Water Suffers Network Disruptions After Cyberattack – Dark Reading
The largest publicly traded water utility in the US was forced to disconnect some of its online systems, and its website and telecommunications system remained unavailable as of Tuesday morning,…
Mideast, Turkey Cyber Threats Spike, Prompting Defense Changes – Dark Reading
The vast majority of organizations in the region saw more attacks in the past year, but most don’t feel prepared for future incidents. – Read More
GorillaBot Goes Ape With 300K Cyberattacks Worldwide – Dark Reading
Among those affected by all this monkeying around with DDoS in September were some 4,000 organizations in the US. – Read More
Salt Typhoon APT Subverts Law Enforcement Wiretapping: Report – Dark Reading
The Chinese state-sponsored cyberattack threat managed to infiltrate the “lawful intercept” network connections that police use in criminal investigations. – Read More
CISO Paychecks: Worth the Growing Security Headaches? – Dark Reading
CISOs’ cash compensation tops $400,000 now, but with the high pay comes struggles, rapidly changing responsibilities, and tight budgets. – Read More
What the White House Should Do Next for Cyber Regulation – Dark Reading
Creating a new office of cyber-regulation strategy is the government’s best opportunity to improve security and to protect Americans in an increasingly dangerous world. – Read More
Name That Edge Toon: And For My Next Trick … – Dark Reading
Feeling creative? Submit your caption and our panel of experts will reward the winner with a $25 Amazon gift card. – Read More
Single HTTP Request Can Exploit 6M WordPress Sites – Dark Reading
The popular LiteSpeed Cache plug-in is vulnerable to unauthenticated privilege escalation via a dangerous XSS flaw. – Read More
MITRE Launches AI Incident Sharing Initiative – Dark Reading
The collaboration with industry partners will improve collective AI defenses. Trusted contributors receive protected and anonymized data on real-world AI incidents. – Read More
Malicious Chrome Extensions Skate Past Google’s Updated Security – Dark Reading
Google’s Manifest V3 offers better privacy and security controls for browser extensions than the previous M2, but too many lax permissions and gaps remain. – Read More
iPhone ‘VoiceOver’ Feature Could Read Passwords Aloud – Dark Reading
CVE-2024-44204 is one of two new Apple iOS security vulnerabilities that showcase an unexpected coming together of privacy snafus and accessibility features. – Read More
Insider Threat Damage Balloons as Visibility Gaps Widen – Dark Reading
A growing number of organizations are taking longer to get back on their feet after an attack, and they’re paying high price tags to do so — up to $2M…
Microsoft, DOJ Dismantle Russian Hacker Group Star Blizzard – Dark Reading
The successful disruption of notorious Russian hacker group Star Blizzard’s operations arrives one month out from the US presidential election — one of the APT’s prime targets. – Read More