The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. Kaseya Releases Security Patch as Companies Continue to Recover (Dark Reading, Jul 12 2021) Estimates indicate the number of affected companies could grow, while Kaseya faces renewed scrutiny as former employees reportedly criticize its lack of focus
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy China Taking Control of Zero-Day Exploits (Schneier on Security, Jul 14 2021) “China is making sure that all newly discovered zero-day exploits are disclosed to the government. Under the new rules, anyone in China who finds
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Europe Makes the Case to Ban Biometric Surveillance (Wired, Jul 09 2021) Companies are racing to track everything about you. It could be a convenient way to reduce fraud—or seriously creepy and discriminatory. New Framework
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cloud Security, DevOps, AppSec Advancing resiliency threat modeling for large distributed systems (Azure Blog, Jul 07 2021) All service engineering teams in Azure are already familiar with postmortems as a tool for better understanding what went wrong, how it went
A Review of the Best News of the Week on AI, IoT, & Mobile Security We Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals (VICE, Jul 08 2021) Anom’ phones used in an FBI honeypot are mysteriously showing up on the secondary market. We bought one. Voice cloning of
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cyber Threats & Defense Kaseya Releases Security Patch as Companies Continue to Recover (Dark Reading, Jul 12 2021) Estimates indicate the number of affected companies could grow, while Kaseya faces renewed scrutiny as former employees reportedly criticize its lack of
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. CISA Adds Ransomware Module to Cyber Security Evaluation Tool (SecurityWeek, Jul 01 2021) The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday announced the release of a new module for its Cyber Security Evaluation Tool (CSET),
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy How REvil Ransomware Took Out Thousands of Business at Once (Wired, Jul 04 2021) More details have come to light as to how the notorious hacking group pulled off its unprecedented attack. Cyber attack against U.S.
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Kaseya Hacked via Authentication Bypass (Dark Reading, Jul 08 2021) The Kaseya ransomware attack is believed to have been down to an authentication bypass. Yes, ransomware needs to be on your radar — but good