Yearly Archives: 2021

Google to offer suite of new zero trust capabilities through Chrome browser

With backing from Google infrastructure and support from a host of industry partners, the features have the potential to significantly expand the footprint of zero trust solutions within industry and government.

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Google discloses spearphishing targeting security researchers

Depending on how widespread the compromises were, it could potentially taint some research and defensive strategies that threat intelligence firms share with businesses and other organizations.

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Users of IoT products from three major vendors at risk of DDoS attacks, data leaks

Softing Industrial Automation GmbH, Kepware PTC, and Matrikon Honeywell all provided fixes for their respective products after security firm Claroty privately disclosed them during 2020.

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Speed of White House cyber appointments should make CISOs ‘a bit more confident’

The appointments and presumed future appointments draw heavily from people with public sector experience, a move that some praise and others criticize as a failure to consider private sector expertise.

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Does cybersecurity need its own Fauci?

SC Media spoke to Ron Gula, former NSA hacker and cybersecurity investor through Gula Tech Adventures, who has advised Congress and the White House, about what President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office should look like from a cyber perspective.

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SonicWall network attacked via zero days in its VPN and secure access solutions

Cybersecurity firm SonicWall disclosed Friday night that hackers attacked the company’s internal networks by first exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in its very own secure remote access products. SC Media received an anonymous tip Friday that SonicWall had suffered an attack, but did not get confirmation ahead of the disclosure by the company. SonicWall, whose product line…

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In second attack DDoS group demands 5 bitcoin payment

Five Radware customers received extortion letters in December and January threatening a DDoS attack if they did not pay five bitcoin (worth about $200,000) from a group that wanted the victims to believe they were from Fancy Bear, Lazarus Group and the Armada Collective. The threat group first attacked late last summer and in the…

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Sunbust avoided indicators of compromise with SolarWinds hack, but left breadcrumbs

Joe Slowik, senior security researcher at DomainTools, spoke to SC Media about how the SolarWind attackers remained undetected for so long, and how domain data could be used to weaponize network observables against sophisticated attackers.

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2021 to bring ‘phase two’ of remote access investment for enterprises

As work from home extends into 2021, remote access performance and security will continue to dominate enterprise budgets and priorities. Accommodating remote users “long-term will lead to phase two of remote access investment,” according to a report from Cato Networks that surveyed 2,376 IT leaders about budgets, purchase plans, future of remote work and secure…

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