A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Colorado Passes New Privacy Act (Infosecurity Magazine, Jun 18 2021) Comprehensive data privacy law awaits signature of state governor Identity Eclipses Malware Detection at RSAC Startup Competition (Dark Reading, Jun 22 2021) All 10 finalists
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cloud Security, DevOps, AppSec GitHub Starts Scanning for Exposed Package Registry Credentials (SecurityWeek, Jun 10 2021) GitHub this week announced that it has started scanning code hosted on its platform for package registry credentials, including RubyGems and PyPI secrets. Cloud
A Review of the Best News of the Week on AI, IoT, & Mobile Security Bombshell Report Finds Phone Network Encryption Was Deliberately Weakened (VICE, Jun 17 2021) A new paper shows that two old encryption algorithms still used in mobile networks can be exploited to spy on phones’ internet
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cyber Threats & Defense No Two REvil Attacks Are the Same, Experts Warn (Infosecurity Magazine, Jun 15 2021) The ransomware affiliate model drives a challenging variety of threats for defenders to tackle NSA Releases Guidance for Securing Enterprise Communication Systems
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. How Hackers Used Slack to Break into EA Games (VICE, Jun 14 2021) A representative for the hackers explained to Motherboard how the group stole a wealth of data from the game publishing giant. “Once inside the
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy The FBI’s Anom Stunt Rattles the Encryption Debate (Wired, Jun 11 2021) The agency spent years running a secure phone network for criminals. So much for “going dark.” Most Ransomware Victims Are Hit Again After Paying
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Apple Says It’s Time to Digitize Your ID, Ready or Not (Wired, Jun 15 2021) Digital driver’s licenses have had a slow start in the US so far, but iOS 15 Wallet will give the
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cloud Security, DevOps, AppSec GitHub Starts Scanning for Exposed Package Registry Credentials (SecurityWeek, Jun 10 2021) GitHub this week announced that it has started scanning code hosted on its platform for package registry credentials, including RubyGems and PyPI secrets. Cloud
A Review of the Best News of the Week on AI, IoT, & Mobile Security Detecting Deepfake Picture Editing (Schneier on Security, Jun 10 2021) “‘Markpainting’ is a clever technique to watermark photos in such a way that makes it easier to detect ML-based manipulation: An image owner can modify
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