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Getting Ahead of Cybersecurity Materiality Mayhem

Cybersecurity leaders must differentiate between strategic (material) and tactical threats in a cross-functional manner and determine 'materiality.' ...
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SEC Cyber Incident Reporting Rules Pressure IT Security Leaders

As the SEC gets tough on businesses' cybersecurity posture, IT security leaders will need to beef up incident response plans ...
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Responsible Disclosure for Cryptocurrency Security

Stewart Baker discusses why the industry-norm responsible disclosure for software vulnerabilities fails for cryptocurrency software. Why can’t the cryptocurrency industry solve the problem the way the software and hardware industries do, by ...

Missouri Governor Doesn’t Understand Responsible Disclosure

The Missouri governor wants to prosecute the reporter who discovered a security vulnerability in a state’s website, and then reported it to the state. The newspaper agreed to hold off publishing any ...

Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used to Buy Silence

Investigative report on how commercial bug-bounty programs like HackerOne, Bugcrowd, and SynAck are being used to silence researchers: Used properly, bug bounty platforms connect security researchers with organizations wanting extra scrutiny. In ...

NordVPN Breached

There was a successful attack against NordVPN: Based on the command log, another of the leaked secret keys appeared to secure a private certificate authority that NordVPN used to issue digital certificates ...

Zoom Vulnerability

The Zoom conferencing app has a vulnerability that allows someone to remotely take over the computer's camera. It's a bad vulnerability, made worse by the fact that it remains even if you ...

The Importance of Protecting Cybersecurity Whistleblowers

Interesting essay arguing that we need better legislation to protect cybersecurity whistleblowers. Congress should act to protect cybersecurity whistleblowers because information security has never been so important, or so challenging. In the ...

Video: Safe Harbor for Hackers

Join the Disclose.io Movement! Video and Slide Deck from EH-Net Live! April 2019 The Internet has an Auto-Immune Problem! It affects everyone on the planet, whether they’ve been the victim of a ...

Webinar: Safe Harbor for Hackers

Register Now to Join the Disclose.io Movement! The Internet has an Auto-Immune Problem! Members of the InfoSec industry need to lead the way in providing a global environment that encourages responsible security ...