Over the past two decades, China has mobilized state-owned and state-influenced companies to dominate several emerging markets, especially for 5G telecommunications equipment, according to a report from the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC) The 50-page report, a follow-up to its March 2020 report, focuses on creating a supply chain strategy for information and communications technologies…
Researchers have recently warned of two massive phishing operations, collectively targeting hundreds of thousands of users – one seeking credentials for business services such as Office 365 and the other abusing Facebook Messenger to go after roughly 450,000 of the social media giant’s account holders.
The United States have indicted six Russian from the GRU intelligence agency for alleged rolls in a series of attacks causing billions of dollars in damage to the private sector. The officers were part of a group known as Sandworm or Telebots, and known for NotPetya, an attack on the Olympic Games and downing the…
New York, NY, October 19, 2020 – Cybersecurity Collaborative, a membership organization for senior cybersecurity leaders to share expertise and work together on complex enterprise security challenges, alongside parent company CyberRisk Alliance, today announced the creation of a $1M fund to assist organizations whose cybersecurity resources have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The fund…
As more employees shift to accessing their work applications through their email, web browser isolation technologies are becoming more popular.
Cloud computing can be the greatest enabler, but also a critical security challenge. Join us starting at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 21, to hear how to strike the proper balance.
The attackers that hacked Twitter in July pretended to call from Twitter’s IT department about a VPN issue, then persuaded employees to enter their credentials into a website that looked identical to the real VPN login site. The claims by the hackers were credible – and successful – because Twitter’s employees were all using VPN…
Alleged leaks connecting Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to his son’s correspondences in Ukraine immediately raised alarm bells to forensic analysts, and offer an interesting case study for why security teams struggle to validate company files as legitimate.
Skepticism about COVID-19 communications exemplifies a hidden cost of the fight against phishing and vishing scams: lost time and business inefficiencies caused by paranoid employees.
States must focus more on digital modernization and improve the role of CISOs, and the cyber issues they face mirror those of broad array of industries. The top barriers state CIOs face sound eerily familiar: lack of sufficient or dedicated cybersecurity budget, inadequate cybersecurity staffing and availability of cybersecurity professionals, and legacy infrastructure and solutions…
