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Early-stage cybersecurity investment flowing, despite pandemic
While most industries saw a significant dip in seed and Series A investments last year, cybersecurity investment remained resilient.
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Sunspot malware scoured servers for SolarWinds builds that it could weaponize
Software company says 2 customer inquires, in hindsight, appear linked to supply-chain attack
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Perils of coding errors play out in Parler slip up
Applied to internet applications in general, the IDOR problems that led to the Parler exposure could extend to anything stored sequentially and not secured individually — receipts, posts, and in many instances entire accounts.
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Complexity and cost chip away at SOCs’ perceived return on investment
51% of 17,200 surveyed IT and security practitioners said that
their SOC’s ROI has gotten worse.
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‘I’ll Teams you’: Employees assume security of links, file sharing via Microsoft comms platform
In theory they know better. But Users naïvely trust workplace communications platforms, despite phishing and impersonation threats.
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SolarWinds hack is the perfect foreword to new book on history’s biggest breaches
SC Media spoke to author and former CISO Neil Daswani about his upcoming new book “Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone.”
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Legal recourse? Nissan balances competitive and security fallout from source code leak
News that source code of Nissan North America tools leaked online because of a misconfigured Git server spurs questions not only about potential cyberattacks by bad actors, but also whether competitors could use the sensitive data against the automobile giant.
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The physical breach of the Capitol building opens a cybersecurity pandora’s box
The incident, as well as the response among those on Capitol Hill tasked with securing government technology assets, serves as a dramatic and evolving case study for public and private sector entities on the scope of the cybersecurity risk tied to a physical breach.
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SolarWinds hack: Amid hardened security, attackers seek softer targets
Experts disagree that election security efforts detracted from supply chain security. But there are still lessons to be learned.
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