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Symantec stock fell roughly 20 percent on Thursday after the company announced an internal investigation that will likely delay its annual report to the SEC [Read More]
A report from the Senate Intelligence Committee says Russian hackers attempted to undermine confidence in the voting process in the 2016 election, but there is no evidence that they manipulated votes or modified voter registration data [Read More]
SafeBreach raises $15 million in Series B funding round, bringing the total raised by the company so far to $34 million [Read More]
A malicious package masquerading as a cookie parsing library but delivering a backdoor instead was unpublished from the npm Registry along with three other packages [Read More]
GitHub tells some users to reset their passwords after a bug caused internal logs to record passwords in plaintext [Read More]
Researchers analyze North Korea’s SiliVaccine antivirus and discover that it uses a 10-year-old scan engine from Japanese company Trend Micro [Read More]
Slack releases goSDL, an open source secure development lifecycle (SDL) tool designed to provide developers a tailored security checklist for their projects [Read More]
IBM releases Adversarial Robustness Toolbox, an open source software library designed to help researchers and developers secure artificial intelligence (AI) systems [Read More]
Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) develops new IoT Security Maturity Model (SMM), building on its own security framework and reference architecture [Read More]
VirusTotal announces launch of a new Android sandbox called VirusTotal Droidy, which provides detailed information on potential Android threats [Read More]
FEATURES, INSIGHTS // Audits
To communicate about our metrics, we need ways that we can ground our experience in terms of “normal” for us; Otherwise, we really can't communicate our metrics effectively with anyone who isn't in a similar environment.
Security is a creature of habit. Security likes things to stay the same. Change brings chaos. Chaos is bad for security. But, we can help control the security of our environment by following good security habits.
A new amendment to Texas' breach notice law is designed to make it easier for Texas entities to comply with Texas law by giving those entities the choice of notifying under Texas law or the law of residents of other states.
While regulations and ensuing IT audits go beyond firewalls and firewall policies, these devices are often a good place to start when it comes to becoming "audit-ready" and gaining continuous visibility of what's going on in your network.
Santa doesn’t care if you were naughty or nice on Christmas Eve – what matters is how you did all year. Security is much the same.
For most CISOs, the pain of an audit is part of the job, but it doesn’t have to be the nightmare that most of the IT community envisions.
Too many IT and risk managers are surprised by security breaches, compromised keys or operational failures that occur from sheer neglect that result when you leave your valuable keys as exposed as a password on a post-it. Hefty, potential fines for failing to comply with regulations are risk enough, but the risks of ignoring these vulnerabilities extend even further.
The vast majority of ISVs are focused on prospecting and lead generation while overlooking potential sales funnel leakage due to piracy. Any vendor that is serious about its longevity needs to know if it has a software piracy problem.
Enjoy this selection of top picks for 2010, listed in no particular order. Happy New Year!
SecurityWeek Daily Briefing
- Nation State Cyber Attacks on Rise, Says Europol
- Mirai Authors Avoid Prison After Working With FBI
- Fidelis Cybersecurity Raises $25 Million
- Destructive Xbash Linux Malware Targets Enterprise Intranets
- Critical Vulnerability Impacts Hundreds of Thousands of IoT Cameras
- iOS 12 Brings Patches for 16 Security Vulnerabilities
- Swiss, Russian FMs to Meet Next Week on Spy Row
- Georgia's Use of Electronic Voting Machines Allowed for Midterms
- Building an Integrated IT/OT Security Program: Notes From the Field
- Symantec Launches Free Election Security Service
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