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The CyberWire wrote: Pitches: "Innovation from Young Companies The Pitch Panel was the Cyber Investing Summit's fast round of innovation pitches, moderated by Allegis's Bob Ackerman and ...
Cyber security firm FireEye reported that that a number of Canadian mines and casinos were hacked by a group named FIN10 – FireEye labels FIN10 to be “one of the most disruptive threat ...
I was at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit at National Harbor, in DC this week. One of the keynotes was by CIA Director George Brennan, who was sworn in as director of the ...
Mike Mimoso at Kaspersky's Threatpost blog raised the theory that the ransomware wasn’t contained properly and spread before it was meant to be unleashed. Malware expert Jake Williams, ...
Mail Tribune reported that Southern Oregon University is just the latest victim of CEO fraud (which the FBI calls Business Email Compromise or BEC) after hackers tricked university ...
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office has said that in the event of a data breach it would be less likely to issue a monetary penalty to charities which had taken “reasonable steps” ...
I missed this one a few months ago, but it's a great example how focused the bad guys are getting with their attacks, and you need to watch out for this social engineering attack vector ...
OK, finally there is some good news in the fight against ransomware!
Researchers at Security firm SentinelOne reported that a group of hackers is using malicious PowerPoint files to distribute 'Zusy,' a banking Trojan, also known as 'Tinba' (Tiny Banker). ...
Insider Threat Training Requirement for US Gov't Contractors (Deadline May 31, 2017) SANS just alerted US federal contractors that wish to maintain their clearances must have completed an ...
By Laura DiDio There is no such thing as a 100% fully secure environment. And there never will be. Security is not static; it is an ongoing work in progress. Organizations must be ...
The Hollywood Reporter (THR) talked directly to TheDarkOverlord hacking collective that claims to have studio films. They said: "We're in the business of earning vast amounts of internet ...
The Intercept reported that the GRU (Russian Military Intelligence, the FSB's counterpart) executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing ...
There was an article with the title: "Don’t panic: We’ve reached ‘peak ransomware’" in a publication called The Memo. They decided to ask an expert: Rik Ferguson, VP of security research ...
Online reporter Doug Olenick at SC Media was the first to point to a press release from the NY State Department of Motor Vehicles warning about a phishing scam where New York drivers are ...
I found this at ComputerWorld: "The word phishing was coined around 1996 by hackers stealing America Online accounts and passwords. By analogy with the sport of angling, these Internet ...
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The WSJ just posted a very interesting article by Nathan Hodge confirming what we have been saying here for the last few years. Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested in St Petersburg ...
