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An investigation into “suspicious internet traffic” conducted by the Office of Inspector General at the US Geological Survey’s Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center satellite imaging facility in Sioux Falls, SD, reveal… Continue reading Employee used US government network for adult websites, infected infrastructure with Russian malware
There’s a reason why National Cybersecurity Awareness Month coincides with the Halloween season. After all, what’s scarier than a cybercriminal making his way into an organization? Well for starters, how about the employee that may unknowin… Continue reading Insider Threats: Keeping the Cyber Boogeyman Out
A now very “ex”-government employee provides a teachable moment. Continue reading Gov worker visits 9k porn sites without protection, spreads infection
McAfee released its Cloud Adoption and Risk Report, which analyzed billions of events in anonymized customers production cloud use to assess the current state of cloud deployments and to uncover risks. The report revealed that nearly a quarter of the d… Continue reading 21% of all files in the cloud contain sensitive data
If you are a regular reader of the Dtex Systems weekly news blog, you’re well versed on the string of insider threats and incidents that prey on the private and public sectors. The Waymo vs. Uber case and Anthony Levandowski highlight the insider … Continue reading 10/29/2018: Dtex, Insider Threat, Privacy News: Wyatt, Wilcox Provide Fed With Insider Threat Risk Reduction Advice; NIST Privacy Risk Framework Catching On
Is your security approach exposing your organization to risk? The answer is “yes” if your security strategy focuses exclusively on external threats. If the breaches of the last 24 months have taught us anything – it’s that insider threats are a c… Continue reading How to protect your organization from insider threats, the #1 risk for data loss
Malicious insiders pose the biggest cybersecurity threat for companies today because they can cause the most damage, and are much harder to detect than outsiders. From the outside, attackers typically use automated hacking tools to perform reconnaissan… Continue reading How science can fight insider threats
In what can only be described as insider gone sideway, a senior adviser within the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Division (FinCEN), Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards, shared with media her confidential work and more. Edwards… Continue reading Insider Threat: FinCEN Insider Bares Treasury Secrets
Threat intelligence provider Anomali opened the week in privacy and security news by announcing that it had discovered as many as 35 million voter records for sale on the dark web. The voter information found came from 19 states and contains PII and vo… Continue reading 10/15/18: Dtex, Privacy, Insider Threat News: 35 Million Voter Records For Sale on Dark Web Courtesy of Insiders; DHS Vulnerable to Insider Attacks
Last week, awards organizations based in the United Stated and United Kingdom recognized Dtex for its product excellence and leadership. The Golden Bridge Awards honored the Dtex Advanced User Behavior Platform for innovations in insider threat detecti… Continue reading 10/8/18: Dtex, Insider Threat, Privacy News: Dtex Earns Leadership, Product Awards; Insider Compromises French Law Enforcement Agency; The Big Hack