Security Boulevard (Original)
Wait, What? Nvidia/ARM Sale on Hold—for Security Reasons
The government of the United Kingdom is investigating the proposed “merger” of ARM and Nvidia, on national security grounds ...
Breaking the Phishing Kill Chain
Sophisticated, nation-state attacks on prominent federal agencies tend to capture the majority of cybersecurity headlines. But security pros know the greater risk to their organizations comes from a more mundane, but more ...
Taking Steps Toward an Impactful SASE Architecture
Given the complexity of digitization initiatives for most companies over the last decade, the world has grown acutely aware of how crucial good cybersecurity is for business health. More than ever before, ...
Monero Cryptominer Attack Exploits Exchange Server Flaw
It didn’t take threat actors long to jump on a vulnerability affecting Microsoft Exchange mail server software. While exploits involving an array of malware from ransomware to webshells are well-documented, Sophos researchers ...
Is Facebook a “Party” to Capture of Offline Activity?
Facebook uses tracking plug-ins; bits of code that the consumer is unaware of, to track the behavior of users when they log out of the social media site, and which tells Facebook ...
Web Application Security’s Lost Year
It’s been over a year now since everything shut down. As we enter into the second spring of the pandemic, organizations are able to better evaluate what worked and what didn’t as ...
Online Ed is the New Corporate Threat Vector
Schools became a major hotspot for cyberattacks as students moved to online learning. In the last 30 days, education was the most targeted sector, receiving more than 60% of all malware encounters, ...
U.S. Takes Aim at Russia’s Cyber Ops Ecosystem
The Biden administration is taking the Russian cyber operations ecosystem to task with sanctions pointed at both established Russian companies as well as Russian-controlled entities created by the FSB, GRU and SVR ...
Diversity in the Cybersecurity Workforce
Like most technology workforce segments, the cybersecurity diversity issue is a very acute problem: there simply isn’t nearly enough representation of diverse backgrounds in cybersecurity roles, from security operations center (SOC) analysts ...
Keyfactor, PrimeKey to Advance Certificate Automation
Keyfactor announced this week announced it intends to merge with PrimeKey as part of an effort to enable organizations to more easily manage certificates on an end-to-end basis. The company also revealed ...
