A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cyber Threats & Defense FBI warns of threat actors spoofing Bureau domains, email accounts (WeLiveSecurity, Nov 27 2020) The U.S. law enforcement agency shares a sampling of more than 90 spoofed FBI-related domains registered recently Latest Version of TrickBot Employs
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. Microsoft’s Making a Secure PC Chip—With Intel and AMD’s Help (Wired, Nov 17 2020) The Pluton security processor will give the software giant an even more prominent role in locking down Windows hardware. 2. Symantec Reports on
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy More on the Security of the 2020 US Election (Schneier on Security, Nov 23 2020) “Last week I signed on to two joint letters about the security of the 2020 election. The first was as one
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Home Depot Settles with US States Over 2014 Data Breach (Infosecurity Magazine, Nov 25 2020) ‘Fraud’ Is a Banned Word in U.S. Aid Program Overwhelmed by It (Bloomberg, Nov 20 2020) A U.S. agency facing
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cloud Security, DevOps, AppSec Zero Trust architectures: An AWS perspective (AWS Security Blog, Nov 23 2020) Our mission at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is to innovate on behalf of our customers so they have less and less work to do
A Review of the Best News of the Week on AI, IoT, & Mobile Security Security Researchers Sound Alarm on Smart Doorbells (Dark Reading, Nov 23 2020) A new analysis of 11 relatively inexpensive video doorbells uncovered high-risk vulnerabilities in all of them. Fake Minecraft mods installed on over one
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cyber Threats & Defense Microsoft’s Making a Secure PC Chip—With Intel and AMD’s Help (Wired, Nov 17 2020) The Pluton security processor will give the software giant an even more prominent role in locking down Windows hardware. Symantec Reports on
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 Patches 60 Vulnerabilities (SecurityWeek, Nov 16 2020) The first update released by Apple for macOS Big Sur 11.0 addresses 60 vulnerabilities affecting various components of the operating system. 2. Major ransomware strain jumps
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy Trump Fires Security Chief Christopher Krebs (Krebs on Security, Nov 18 2020) President Trump on Tuesday fired his top election security official Christopher Krebs (no relation). The dismissal came via Twitter two weeks to the day