A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cloud Security, DevOps, AppSec Google Cloud Unveils New SOC, IDS Solutions (SecurityWeek, Jul 22 2021) Google Cloud this week announced new security offerings for its customers, including Autonomic Security Operations to improve security operations centers (SOCs) and Cloud Intrusion Detection
A Review of the Best News of the Week on AI, IoT, & Mobile Security An explosive spyware report shows limits of iOS, Android security (Ars Technica, Jul 24 2021) Amnesty International sheds alarming light on an NSO Group surveillance tool. A princess raced to escape Dubai’s powerful ruler. Then
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cyber Threats & Defense Disrupting Ransomware by Disrupting Bitcoin (Schneier on Security, Jul 26 2021) In this light, banning cryptocurrencies like bitcoin is an obvious solution. But while the solution is conceptually simple, it’s also impossible because — despite its
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. Mysterious Israeli Spyware Vendor’s Windows Zero-Days Caught in the Wild (VICE, Jul 15 2021) Microsoft and Citizen Lab found a new kind of spyware made by the mysterious Israeli vendor Candiru, and targeting someone in Europe based
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy Kaseya gets master decryptor to help customers still suffering from REvil attack (Ars Technica, Jul 22 2021) REvil ransomware struck as many as 1,500 networks, but a master key is now available. NSO Group Hacked (Schneier
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Combating deepfakes: How we can future-proof… (Help Net Security, Jul 20 2021) So, an obvious question is whether deepfakes are powerful enough to fool the biometric-based solutions on which institutions such as banks and governments
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cloud Security, DevOps, AppSec Google to Bring HTTPS-First Mode to Chrome Browser (Dark Reading, Jul 14 2021) Beginning in M94, Chrome will offer HTTPS-First Mode, which will attempt to upgrade all page loads to HTTPS. Application security tools ineffective against
A Review of the Best News of the Week on AI, IoT, & Mobile Security Private Israeli spyware used to hack journalists, activists worldwide (WAPO, Jul 19 2021) Military-grade spyware licensed by an Israeli firm to governments for tracking terrorists and criminals was used in attempted and successful hacks of
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cyber Threats & Defense Mysterious Israeli Spyware Vendor’s Windows Zero-Days Caught in the Wild (VICE, Jul 15 2021) Microsoft and Citizen Lab found a new kind of spyware made by the mysterious Israeli vendor Candiru, and targeting someone in Europe