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U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr says increased encryption of data on phones and computers and encrypted messaging apps are putting American security at risk. [Read More]
Chief executives from several US tech companies expressed "strong support" for Donald Trump's policies restricting the use of products from Chinese telecom giant Huawei. [Read More]
A former National Security Agency contractor awaits sentencing in Baltimore’s federal court for storing two decades’ worth of classified documents at his Maryland home. [Read More]
Poland and Lithuania are looking into the potential security risks of using a Russian-made face-editing app that has triggered a viral social media trend where users post "aged" selfies. [Read More]
Users and organizations continue to patch the Windows vulnerability tracked as BlueKeep and CVE-2019-0708, but over 800,000 systems are still exposed to attacks. [Read More]
Russian-made FaceApp, which allows users to see how they will look as they age, found itself in the eye of a political storm in the US Wednesday, with one senator urging an FBI investigation into its "national security and privacy risks". [Read More]
California’s state auditor raised alarms Tuesday about information security in some state offices and called for additional oversight and regular assessments. [Read More]
Microsoft says it has detected more than 740 infiltration attempts by nation-state actors in the past year targeting U.S.-based political parties, campaigns and other democracy-focused organizations. [Read More]
Many U.S. counties are buying new electoral systems, but they still run on old software that will soon be outdated and more vulnerable to hackers. [Read More]
Hackers can manipulate media files transferred by users via WhatsApp and Telegram due to the way Android allows apps to access files on a device’s external storage. [Read More]
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FEATURES, INSIGHTS // Risk Management
A gradual improvement in cyber hygiene can go a long way toward keeping an organization immune from security infections and minimizing the risk of falling victim to a cyber-attack.
The convergence of security products and services is a welcomed development and will lead to improved security.
While threats facing private industry and government may once have looked distinctly different, the line separating attackers pursuing these two arenas is now so blurred that it’s often hard to distinguish one from another.
CISOs should invest time in applying the resources of public cloud to bring automation, scalability, and AI to solving the given problem as a platform for all customers – past, present, and future.
As innovative attacks continue to expand the purview of cyber security, helping CISOs means equipping them with equally innovative tools that stand a fighting chance.
It can be difficult for teams to determine how to obtain and incorporate data from encrypted chat service platforms into their collection strategies in a meaningful way.
While no digital risk framework is perfect, the optimal level of maturity will look to continually identify gaps, update processes and tooling, and reflect organizational changes.
The best way for intelligence practitioners to identify what types of context their intelligence consumers truly need is simply to ask them.
By understanding where assets are exposed, their value to attackers, and how attackers target this data, organizations can make better decisions about their defenses and improve them over time.
Josh Lefkowitz shares—and debunks—some of the most persistent and misleading BRI fallacies he has heard over the years.
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