Cyber Security Roundup for January 2021

A suspected nation-state sophisticated cyber-attack of SolarWinds which led to the distribution of a tainted version the SolarWinds Orion network monitoring tool, compromising their customers, dominated the cyber headlines in mid-December 2020.  This w… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for January 2021

Cybercrime costs the world more than $1 trillion, a 50% increase from 2018

Cybercrime costs the world economy more than $1 trillion, or just more than one percent of global GDP, which is up more than 50 percent from a 2018 study that put global losses at close to $600 billion, McAfee reveals. Beyond the global figure, the rep… Continue reading Cybercrime costs the world more than $1 trillion, a 50% increase from 2018

Consumer behaviors and cyber risks of holiday shopping in 2020

While consumers are aware of increased risks and scams via the internet, they still plan to do more shopping online – and earlier – this holiday season, McAfee reveals. Thirty-six percent of Americans note they are hitting the digital links to give gif… Continue reading Consumer behaviors and cyber risks of holiday shopping in 2020

McAfee MVISION CNAPP enhances cloud-native security by integrating with AWS

McAfee announced the MVISION Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) with several native Amazon Web Services (AWS) integrations to help customers more easily secure their applications and data in their Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) an… Continue reading McAfee MVISION CNAPP enhances cloud-native security by integrating with AWS

Be Very Sparing in Allowing Site Notifications

An increasing number of websites are asking visitors to approve “notifications,” browser modifications that periodically display messages on the user’s mobile or desktop device. In many cases these notifications are benign, but several dodgy firms are paying site owners to install their notification scripts and then selling that communications pathway to scammers and online hucksters. Continue reading Be Very Sparing in Allowing Site Notifications

McAfee’s open API framework enables orgs to respond faster to threats while reducing cost

McAfee announced the launch of MVISION Marketplace, MVISION API and MVISION Developer Portal, part of the MVISION platform that will allow customers to quickly and easily integrate McAfee and trusted Security Innovation Alliance (SIA) partner applicati… Continue reading McAfee’s open API framework enables orgs to respond faster to threats while reducing cost

Siemplify Joins MVISION Marketplace as an Inaugural Member and Preferred SOAR Partner: What This Means for You

  From grabbing the latest social media app to landing a vacation rental, the trend of online marketplaces is rapidly…
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Mcafee Announces Mvision Marketplace And Mvision Api To Enable Organizations To Quickly And Easily Adapt To Security Gaps

Open and Cloud Driven Platform Expands Existing Security Infrastructure with Simple Pre-Integrated Building Block Approach San Jose, Calif., November 12, 2020 – McAfee Corp. (Nasdaq: MCFE) – Today, McAfee announced the launch of MVISION Marketplace, MV… Continue reading Mcafee Announces Mvision Marketplace And Mvision Api To Enable Organizations To Quickly And Easily Adapt To Security Gaps

Suspected North Korean hackers who targeted job applicants prove more ambitious than first believed

A possible North Korean government-connected cyber-espionage campaign that targeted the defense industry stretched further than originally known when it was inititally uncovered this summer, researchers said. “Operation North Star” went beyond targeting South Korea to include Australia, India, Israel and Russia, McAfee said in a report out Friday. And its motives and methods seem to be clearer now, too, according to researchers. Israel’s Ministry of Defense had previously blamed Lazarus Group, which the U.S. government calls Hidden Cobra, for sending phony job offers in its defense sector — a tactic that lined up with McAfee’s earlier description of Operation North Star tactics. Additionally, the campaign used a previously undiscovered implant called Torisma that it deployed to burrow further into victims’ systems, McAfee said. The tactic represents the kind of digital spying technique that would have given hackers access to machines belonging to job applicants positioned near military organizations — just the kind of targets that a […]

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New infosec products of the week: November 6, 2020

Qualys Container Runtime Security: Defense for containerized applications Qualys Runtime Container Security, once instrumented in the image, will work within each container irrespective of where the container is instantiated and does not need any addit… Continue reading New infosec products of the week: November 6, 2020