Cyber Security
Spotify Launches ‘Rolling Reset’ on Customer Accounts, Passwords Linked to Data Leak (ZDNet)
Spotify has issued a rolling password reset of some user accounts following the discovery of an open database containing user credentials. The 72GB database contained over 380 mill... More
How a Cybersecurity Training Program Can Recruit From Inside Your Business (Security Intelligence)
The cybersecurity industry is facing a shortage of trained and experienced professionals. Schools, universities and organizations are doing amazing things to encourage the next gen... More
Meet the Hackers Who Earn Millions for Saving the Web, One Bug at a Time (ZDNet)
These hackers are finding security bugs – and getting paid for it. That's changing the dynamics of cybersecurity.... More
FBI: Fake Versions of Our Site Could be Used for Cyberattacks, so Watch Out (ZDNet)
The FBI is concerned dozens of domains that are designed to look like its own could be used in future disinformation campaigns and cyberattacks.... More
Amazon Web Services’ New Network Firewall Solution Rolls Out (ZDNet)
The managed security service has been created in order to give customers improved visibility into their AWS setups and architecture, as well as to bolster network security.... More
How AI Can Make Cybersecurity Jobs Less Stressful, More Fulfilling (Security Intelligence)
Words for health and the human body often make their way into the language we use to describe IT. Computers get viruses; companies manage their security hygiene; incident response ... More
Congress Passes IoT Security Law (Decipher)
Congress has unanimously passed the bipartisan IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act, which would set minimum security requirements for developing, patching, and configuring Internet o... More
Global Cybersecurity Skills Shortage Falls for the First Time (Verdict)
When it comes to cybersecurity, a new report found that for the first time, there has been a year-over-year reduction in the cybersecurity skills shortage.... More
Palo Alto Networks Takes on 5G Security With New Offerings (CRN)
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based platform security vendor said 5G has been architected in a way that allows partners to create services that enhance use cases like smart supply chains... More
5 Cybersecurity Trends We Spotted in 2020 (Tech HQ)
One thing's for sure — it's not been an easy year for cybersecurity professionals.... More
The Ransomware Landscape is More Crowded Than You Think (ZDNet)
More than 25 Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) portals are currently renting ransomware to other criminal groups.... More
Darktrace Answers The Vatican’s Prayers (BW)
The Vatican Library, which holds one of the oldest and most significant collections of historical texts in the world, is deploying AI technology from Cambridge’s Darktrace to pro... More
Data Security by the Numbers: How a Smarter Approach Saves Time, Money (Security Intelligence)
It’s well-known in business that you need to balance money spent versus money saved. The most effective, cost-cutting data security solutions have one thing in common — the cos... More
Every Employee Has a Cybersecurity Blind Spot (Help Net Security)
80% of companies say that an increased cybersecurity risk caused by human factors has posed a challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in times of heightened stress.... More
NAGRA’s Anti-Piracy Chief, Pascal Metral, on Countering Pirate Subscription IPTV Services (ITVT)
Metral explains what pirate subscription IPTV services are, enumerates the key components of the pirate subscription IPTV ecosystem, outlines the risks these services present to bo... More
Accelerating Threat Remediation With AI (Tech HQ)
There is little doubt that AI-augmentation is vital for protecting digital systems in an era of information overload. AI can handle terabytes of data every day – a scale unthinka... More
IBM, AMD Team for ‘Confidential Computing’ for AI, HPC in the Cloud (DCD)
IBM has signed a multi-year joint development agreement with AMD to improve both companies’ security and artificial intelligence products. The agreement builds upon open-source s... More
Cyber Attacks are Growing More Sophisticated During the COVID-19 Pandemic (CPO)
Cybercriminals typically scramble to take advantage of any newsworthy event, and the COVID-19 pandemic is no exception.... More
WannaCry: How the Widespread Ransomware Changed Cybersecurity (Security Intelligence)
If I had polled cybersecurity experts on their way to work on May 12, 2017, most of them would have said they knew a major cybersecurity event loomed. Yet, on that day no one expec... More
SEC Chair: Cybersecurity Threats to Corporate America are Present Now ‘More Than Ever,’ (CNBC)
SEC Chairman Jay Clayton told CNBC that corporate America must remain vigilant about cybersecurity threats. “Cyber risks have not gone away with the unfortunate, unforeseen risks... More
