The global commercial spyware market will expand over the next five years as demand for advanced surveillance tools by governments surges, says a new report from the U.K.'s National Cyber Security Center. The NCSC assesses that at least 80 countries have purchased advanced spyware apps.
Sanitize IT gear before decommissioning is well-trod cybersecurity advice given to corporations everywhere and yet many persist in disposing of equipment still laden with sensitive data. Cybersecurity firm Eset says it found a wealth of corporate data on secondhand routers.
House Oversight Committee members on Thursday called for the firing of whoever caused the DC Health Benefit Exchange breach and exposed the personal information of Congress members on a dark web forum. The breached was blamed on "human error" and a server configured with no authentication controls.
The U.S. weapons arsenal developed without a zero trust architecture is at growing risk from cyberattacks, lawmakers heard today in a panel dedicated to how artificial intelligence can simultaneously help and hurt efforts to protect warfighters from digital attacks.
An Iranian state hacking group shifted from espionage to direct targeting of U.S. critical infrastructure - a likely indicator of newfound aggression by the national security apparatus, says Microsoft. One sign of Iran's new intensity is quicker uptake of exploits of newly disclosed vulnerabilities.
Britain's National Cyber Security Centre said Russian hacktivists have ambitions of becoming a larger threat to Western critical infrastructure. "Disclosing this threat is not something we do lightly," said U.K. Cabinet Office Secretary of State Oliver Dowden.
The Russian government continues to use an array of phishing attacks and information operations - including hack-and-leak efforts and running hacktivist groups such as CyberArmyofRussia - to support its illegal invasion of Ukraine, Google researchers report.
Akamai Technologies has agreed to purchase a finalist in last year's RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox Contest to get more visibility into the API threat landscape. Silicon Valley-based Neosec will help customers discover all their APIs, assess their risk and respond to vulnerabilities and attacks.
A cyber risk quantification startup backed by ex-Cisco CEO John Chambers has raised $50 million to apply ML technology and build more API adapters. The money will allow Safe Security to capitalize on generative AI to help nontechnical leaders better understand their organizations' security postures.
Major internet chat platforms are urging the United Kingdom government to reconsider a bill intended to decrease exposure to online harms but which opponents say would open the door to massive government surveillance. Proponents say online platforms should have a duty of care to protect users.
Hackers have seized on the API revolution to drive a surge in attacks that exploit poorly coded applications, reports Akamai, in a warning echoed by other cybersecurity experts. The vector driving the most growth in API attacks is local file inclusion.
Important lessons about security and risk management aren't being learned, remembered and applied by defenders amid organizations' rapid migration to the cloud, according to the finding that just 5% of security rules, on average, trigger 80% of all alerts, threat intelligence group Unit 42 warns.
U.S. law enforcement says a troll farm operated by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security used fake Facebook and Twitter accounts to disseminate propaganda and harass dissidents located in the United States. The troll farm was part of a Chinese effort known as the 912 Special Project Working Group.
Healthcare sector entities have a special mix of identity and access management challenges, but other factors, including the shortage of skilled cybersecurity expertise, create even more obstacles, says Dave Summitt, vice president, cybersecurity, at Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute.
A surging Palo Alto Networks has joined stalwarts Netskope and Zscaler atop Gartner's security service edge ranking, while Skyhigh Security fell from leader to visionary. Netskope joined Palo Alto as a big winner, catapulting from third to first in both execution ability and completeness of vision.
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