Collaborate Disseminate
April is a time for tax-related phishing scams, and we haven’t been let down this year despite the dominance of COVID-19-themed phishing campaigns. DMARC should stop phishing, right? Not unless the targeted domain itself is spoofed.
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Continue reading Tax Phishing Campaign Reminds of DMARC Limitations
Dramatic Increase in Company Compromises Correlates with Coronavirus-Sparked Lockdowns
At the end of March 2020, researchers detected a spike in the number of firms potentially compromised each week. Previously, the number in Finland per week was… Continue reading Spike in Company Compromises Correlates With Lockdowns
‘Double extortion’ is the term given to an evolving ransomware tactic: first steal confidential data, then encrypt the victim’s files. If the victim doesn’t pay the ransom, expose the data.
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Continue reading Double Extortion: Ransomware’s New Normal Combining Encryption with Data Theft
SafeBreach has raised a further $19 million to improve and expand its breach-and-attack simulation platform, which allows customers to assess their security posture against a continuous barrage of genuine, but safe, hacker behaviors.
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Continue reading Breach-and-Attack Simulation Firm SafeBreach Raises $19 Million
Metasploit Team Unveils Community Powered Knowledge Base of Vulnerabilities and Insights
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Continue reading Meet AttackerKB, Rapid7’s Crowdsourced Vulnerability Knowledge Base
With $30 Million in Funding, Silicon Valley Visionaries Jim Clark and Tom Jermoluk Aim to Replace Passwords With a Chain of Trust
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Continue reading Silicon Valley Legends Launch Beyond Identity in Quest to Eliminate Passwords
Is Backup Alone Enough, or is Full Disaster Recovery Required to Mitigate the Threat of Ransomware?
To pay, or not to pay? Is it better to suffer the pain and outage of ransomware – or pay up, and by doing so, end it?
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Continue reading Backup or Disaster Recovery for Protection Against Ransomware?
San Jose, Calif.-based cloud security firm Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) said it will acquire Redmond, Wash.-based startup Cloudneeti for an undisclosed sum. Cloudneeti offers cloud security posture management to prevent and remediate misconfigurations in SaaS,… Continue reading Zscaler to Acquire Cloudneeti to Solve Cloud Misconfiguration Problems
Cato Networks, a firm poised to take advantage of the sudden acceleration of business transformation and working from home caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, has raised $77 million in a Series D funding round.
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