Woodstock Wire: Enterprise Security News

Infosec -- Office of Inadequate Security - Ryan Kath and Jim Haddadin report: Inside the Bay State, a handful of attacks against cities and towns have garnered...

Infosec -- CSO Online - You leave kerosene-soaked rags all around your house. You chain smoke. One day, while relaxing in front of an episode of CSI:Cyber,...

Infosec -- Security Affairs - The US administration requested $9.8 billion for cyber in next year's budget for the Department of Defense, the amount is...

FastCompany -- Hackers could shut them down-or turn them into weapons.

Last month, SpaceX became the operator of the world's largest active satellite constellation....

Infosec -- Okta Blog - At Okta, we love to secure access to everything, from cloud apps, to consumer apps, to servers, and infrastructure-from a single...

CFO -- It's like the plot of a James Bond movie: Hackers take control of a global organization's computer systems and threaten...

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - Conference joins lengthening list of events taken out by virus.

Life -- The Wirecutter - We set out to do a standard Wirecutter guide to the best antivirus app, so we spent months researching products, reading reports...

Enterprise -- Silicon Republic - The UK Financial Reporting Council (FRC) recently passed a new regulation pressing companies to report business metrics not...

Life -- Lifehacker - Yes, Macs are susceptible to malware and virus as much as a Windows PC, and it's probably in your best interest to have at least...

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Enterprise -- E-Commerce Times - Ransomware hit at least 966 U.S. government agencies, educational establishments and healthcare providers in 2019, at...

Enterprise -- ZDNet Blogs - DDoS attacks can reach an amplification factor of 100, but servers will crash very quickly.

Enterprise -- SiliconANGLE - Elastic N.V., no doubt encouraged by the rapid growth in enterprise cybersecurity spending, has over the last few quarters beefed...

Enterprise -- Data Center Knowledge - The decision to outsource security or handle it all in-house hinges on resources and risk.

Enterprise -- ZDNet Blogs - The document provides the path for the creation of a national policy with specific actions and timescales.

Enterprise -- ZDNet Blogs - There are 127 new IoT devices connected to the internet every second, according to Cisco, and by 2025 there could be more than...

Media -- Reuters - Technology - Akamai Technologies on Tuesday beat quarterly estimates for revenue and profit, driven by strong demand for its cloud...

Enterprise -- Network World News - The ease with which internet of things devices can be compromised, coupled with the potentially extreme consequences of...

Enterprise -- Cloud Native Computing Foundation - A few months ago, we published a guide...

Enterprise -- The ChannelPro Network - The first installment in a four-part series examines a solution for internal vulnerability scanning, device alerting,...

Enterprise -- Palo Alto Networks Blog - On Feb. 11, Palo Alto Networks will host the Cloud Native Security Live - 2020 Summit. Ahead of the free multi-session...

Enterprise -- DevOps.com - For the past three to four years, all the companies around the IT world have adopted agile and different application development...

Enterprise -- Network World News - Firewalls continuously evolve to remain a staple of network security by incorporating functionality of standalone devices,...

Enterprise -- ChannelLife New Zealand - Data security, number of people with disabilities in workforce to triple, the push for transparency, and everything...

Enterprise -- ChannelLife New Zealand - Datacom consultant David Hull has been recognised as one of only 37 'Guardians' around the world after being awarded...

Infosec -- Recorded Future - This is the fourth year that Recorded Future has asked me to write up my predictions...

Infosec -- ISC2 Blog - The number of U.S. data breaches bumped up 17% in 2019 but despite the increase, the volume of sensitive consumer records that were...

Business Wire -- CyberArk Delivers Blueprint for Privileged Access Management Success

Infosec -- CSO Online - What is a DDoS attack?

A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is when an attacker, or attackers, attempt to make it impossible...

Infosec -- Security Affairs - Microsoft is recommending administrators to disable the SMBv1 network communication protocol on Exchange servers to prevent...

Infosec -- Dark Reading - BEC attacks comprised nearly half of cybercrime losses last year, which totaled $3.5 billion overall as Internet-enabled crimes...

Infosec -- Security Affairs - Siemens issued Patch Tuesday updates for February 2020 that fixed serious denial-of-service (DoS) flaws in several of its...

Infosec -- Threatpost - The release of Firefox 73 fixed high-severity memory safety bugs that could cause arbitrary code execution and missing bounds check...

Infosec -- Naked Security - From March, the Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Edge browsers will show warnings when users visit websites that only support TLS...

Tech -- TechCrunch - Europe's data protection laws are some of the strictest in the world, and have long been a thorn in the side of the data-guzzling...

Tech -- Mashable - The Mac vs. PC debate isn't nearly as intense as it was earlier in the 21st century, but a new malware report could stoke the flames...

Business Wire -- RSA (@RSAsecurity), a global cybersecurity leader delivering Business-Driven Security(tm) solutions to help organizations manage digital risk,...

Media -- The Next Web - The government of Puerto Rico has revealed it fell victim to an email phishing scam, with the attackers making off with more than...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - For a great example of an attempt at security that does much more to annoy legitimate consumers than to actually fend off fraudsters,...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - Business email compromise (BEC) scams are squeezing more money than ever out of victims, and accounted for more than half of all...

Infosec -- Security Affairs - Swiss authorities are investigating into allegations the company Crypto AG, a Switzerland-based maker of encryption devices,...

Infosec -- Okta Blog - Nonprofits do society's hardest work. They serve our most vulnerable people, protect our most precious resources, and advocate for...

Infosec -- Threatpost - The high-severity vulnerability could enable denial of service, privilege escalation and information disclosure.

Infosec -- Security Affairs - Dell addresses a flaw in the Dell SupportAssist Client software that could allow local attackers to execute arbitrary code...

Infosec -- Security Affairs - Dear readers, I decided to create a simple Infographic that shows Cybercrime facts in 2019, I've done it for Safer Internet...

Infosec -- The Daily Swig - Higher education aims to fill the workforce gap

Infosec -- Dark Reading - Developments that exacerbate the risk and complicate making Internet of Things devices more secure.

Infosec -- CSO Online - Since 2014, CIOs have flagged cybersecurity as either their first or second most important IT management issue in the venerable...

Infosec -- TripWire - The State of Security - You've seen the high-level stats on the cybersecurity skills gap, but I'll remind you of some of the main...