The Biden-Harris Administration has released its five-pronged National Cybersecurity Strategy designed to secure the digital ecosystem by putting more of the burden for cybersecurity on tech organizations and encouraging long-term investments in security. The Administration’s vision is meant to make the country’s digital ecosystem defensible, resilient and values aligned. The new strategy comes in the […]
Cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks is launching its new Identity Threat Detection and Response module for its autonomous security operations center (SOC) solution Cortex XSIAM. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based firm says the new solution enables customers to ingest user identity and behavior data and deploy AI technology to help detect identity-driven attacks within seconds, […]
U.S. agencies are warning critical infrastructure organizations to be on the lookout for Royal ransomware, a financially motivated threat actor that has been targeted manufacturing, communications, healthcare and education entities since September 2022. In a joint advisory, the FBI and U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency say the Royal ransomware actors have compromised U.S. and […]
Phishing, social engineering, and ransomware remain favorite attack methods of cybercriminals, but threat actors are beginning to shift to newer techniques, such as phone-oriented attack delivery and adversary-in-the-middle phishing proxies designed to bypass multifactor authentication, according to cybersecurity firm Proofpoint. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company’s’ State of the Phish report finds that email-based phishing attacks remain […]
Every organization interacts with other organizations: suppliers, partners, customers, government agencies and more. As a result, you can suffer a breach even though your organization was not directly targeted. For example, adversaries were able to release the infamous NotPetya malware to thousands of companies worldwide by compromising the supplier of a popular accounting software solution. […]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a new advisory that describes a CISA red team assessment of a large critical infrastructure organization with a mature cyber posture, with the goal of sharing its key findings to help IT and security professionals improve monitoring and hardening of networks. According to the advisory, […]
Microsoft is launching the Microsoft Intune Suite, a new unified endpoint management and security bundle designed to simplify endpoint management experiences, improve an organization’s security posture and improve the user experience. According to a Microsoft blog written by Michael Wallent, corporate vice president, of the company’s enterprise mobility management products, the new Intune Suite is deeply […]
Google is expanding client-side encryption capabilities across Google Workspace, making the enhanced encryption generally available for three advanced Workspace plan types in Gmail and Calendar after enabling the security control for Drive, Docs, Slides, Sheets and Meet last year. Client-side encryption (CSE) is now generally available for Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Plus and Education […]
[Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect the company’s official statement on the new updates.] The same threat actor that accessed portions of the LastPass development environment and source code that has forced the company since August 2022 to provide updates as new information is revealed, apparently accessed a shared cloud-storage environment obtained […]
Cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks is launching a new Zero Trust security solution for operational technology designed to help industrial organizations easily secure systems without having to deploy additional sensors. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company’s Zero Trust OT Security solution is highlighted by the new cloud-delivered Industrial OT Security service that can be enabled — without […]
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