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The Starbucks Effect is Pervasive in the IT Industry and Threat Intelligence is Also Affected by That Movement

HackerOne on Thursday announced the results of a bug bounty challenge run by the U.S. Air Force on its platform. More than $100,000 were paid out for over 100 vulnerabilities reported during Hack the Air Force 2.0.

With the Right Team Working Together You Can Address the Security, Privacy, and Compliance Challenges of Multicloud 

Intel Opens Bug Bounty Program to All Researchers, Offers up to $250,000 for Flaws Similar to Meltdown and Spectre

The United Kingdom on Thursday officially accused the Russian government of launching the destructive NotPetya attack, which had a significant financial impact on several major companies.

Kaspersky Lab has filed a new lawsuit over the U.S. government’s decision to ban its products in federal agencies, this time challenging the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

Microsoft is stepping up its efforts to help IT professionals better assess whether their Windows devices are protected against the industry-wide Meltdown and Spectre attack techniques.

Nine remotely exploitable vulnerabilities have been found in Dell EMC's Isilon OneFS platform, a scale-out NAS storage platform that combines modular hardware with unified software to harness unstructured data.

SAP this week released its monthly set of security updates for its products, addressing a total of 11 new vulnerabilities, including two considered high severity.

Google this month addressed several critical severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in the Android operating system.

Thirty-five percent of CISOs in the financial sector consider staff training to be the top priority for cyber defense. Twenty-five percent prioritize infrastructure upgrades and network defense.

A shooting erupted Wednesday outside the suburban Washington headquarters of the National Security Agency, a secretive intelligence organization responsible for global US electronic eavesdropping, leaving at least one person injured, officials said.

Pepperl+Fuchs has informed customers that some of its human-machine interface (HMI) products are vulnerable to the recently disclosed Meltdown and Spectre attack methods.

There are few things in life more dissimilar than security practitioners and the salespeople that sell to them.  The interaction between these two groups in a professional setting often creates some pretty interesting situations.  Although it can be awkward at times, I have learned a lot from watching these interactions closely.