cybersecurity

The Art of Storytelling in Cybersecurity

This episode of the “CyberHero Adventures: Defenders of the Digital Universe” show focuses on answering the question, How do you use stories to distill complicated cybersecurity information into digestible bites? Our guests ...
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spear-phishing

Targeted Spear-Phishing on the Rise

The pandemic has presented many challenges for cybersecurity, especially COVID-19-related phishing attempts targeting employees working from home. However, security experts speaking at the Exabeam Spotlight20 virtual conference warned of an increase in ...
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smart TV

Disconnect Your TCL Smart TV From the Internet—NOW

| | android, china, iot, SB Blogwatch, TCL
Researchers are sounding the alarm about Android TVs from TCL. A pair of bugs make them serious targets for hackers, and the TVs have a Chinese backdoor ...
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Menlo Security

Menlo Security Raises $100M for Security Service

Menlo Security today announced it has raised another $100 million in funding to fuel an effort to better secure cloud environments using the Menlo Security Isolation Platform and Adaptive Clientless Rendering (ACR) ...
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JumpCloud

JumpCloud Raises $75M to Advance Zero-Trust Security Based on Identity

JumpCloud announced today that it has raised an additional $75 million to advance adoption of a zero-trust approach to managing identity based on a directory delivered as a cloud service. Company CEO ...
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identity verification

Identity Verification: Is Your Potential Employee Who They Say They Are?

Identity verification has taken on a new urgency for cybersecurity and IT teams in the new era of remote work. Confirming a person’s identity has been important since the advent of data ...
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XSS

Great British Prank: Company Name Contains XSS Hack

A prankster registered a British company name containing a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. Hilarity ensued ...
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survey security

Survey Sees AI, Automation Cast Shadow Over Security Careers

| | AI, Automation, Careers, survey
A survey of 350 security professionals in the U.S., Singapore, Germany, Australia and the United Kingdom suggests younger cybersecurity professionals tend to be more conflicted about advances in artificial intelligence (AI) than ...
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Accenture

Court Greenlights Accenture/Marriott Breach Suit

A court has ruled that Accenture, as a service provider to Starwood, owed a duty to prevent data breaches to Starwood’s customers In September 2018, Bethesda, Maryland-based Marriott International’s subsidiary chain Starwood ...
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Windows

23% of Windows in Use is Old, Insecure Win7 or XP

Windows 7 and XP are obsolete, but that hasn’t stopped almost a quarter of Windows users using them. It’s a security nightmare waiting to happen ...
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