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
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How the increasing demand for cyber insurance is changing the role of the CISO – CSO Online
Demand for cyber insurance is up, and market observers expect the number of standalone cyber insurance policies will continue to rise. German multinational insurance company Munich Re has valued the…
Pro-Ukrainian Hackers Strike Russian State TV on Putin’s Birthday – The Hacker News
Ukraine has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack that targeted Russia state media company VGTRK and disrupted its operations, according to reports from Bloomberg and Reuters. The incident took place…
Qualcomm Urges OEMs to Patch Critical DSP and WLAN Flaws Amid Active Exploits – The Hacker News
Qualcomm has rolled out security updates to address nearly two dozen flaws spanning proprietary and open-source components, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity…
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
Vulnerable APIs and Bot Attacks Costing Businesses Up to $186 Billion Annually – The Hacker News
Organizations are losing between $94 – $186 billion annually to vulnerable or insecure APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and automated abuse by bots. That’s according to The Economic Impact of API…
Malware attack on State Data Center in India puts some citizen services at a standstill – CSO Online
India’s hill state of Uttarakhand’s entire IT infrastructure came to a standstill on Friday after malware was detected on systems at the State Data Center. The shutdown impacted several critical…
Modernization of Authentication: Webinar on MFA, Passwords, and the Shift to Passwordless – The Hacker News
The interest in passwordless authentication has increased due to the rise of hybrid work environments and widespread digitization. This has led to a greater need for reliable data security and…
New Gorilla Botnet Launches Over 300,000 DDoS Attacks Across 100 Countries – The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new botnet malware family called Gorilla (aka GorillaBot) that is a variant of the leaked Mirai botnet source code. Cybersecurity firm NSFOCUS, which identified the…
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
Critical Apache Avro SDK Flaw Allows Remote Code Execution in Java Applications – The Hacker News
A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the Apache Avro Java Software Development Kit (SDK) that, if successfully exploited, could allow the execution of arbitrary code on susceptible instances.…