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OT attacks increased by over 2000 percent in 2019, IBM reports

Security Affairs

According to IBM, OT attacks increased by over 2000 percent in 2019, most of them involved the Echobot IoT malware. According to IBM X-Force, attacks targeting operational technology (OT) infrastructure increased by over 2000 p ercent in 2019 compared to 2018, and most of them involved the Echobot malware. ” continues the report.

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NEW TECH: Juicing up SOAR — SIRP inserts risk-based analysis into network defense playbooks

The Last Watchdog

Full automation is still some way off, but the data can be enriched based on certain automation and workflows, automating some 70 percent of the risk investigation. ” Risk-based decisions SIRP operates in risk-based SOAR, allowing organizations to make risk-based decisions, rather than just responding to alerts.

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Microsoft Buys Corp.com So Bad Guys Can’t

Krebs on Security

From February’s piece: At issue is a problem known as “ namespace collision ,” a situation where domain names intended to be used exclusively on an internal company network end up overlapping with domains that can resolve normally on the open Internet. Further reading: Mitigating the Risk of DNS Namespace Collisions (PDF).

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News alert: 360 Privacy secures $36M to deliver turnkey digital executive protection platform

The Last Watchdog

Seamlessly combining software with white glove service, 360 Privacy delivers a turnkey digital executive protection platform that automatically scrapes the internet and dark web in real-time to identify, remove and continuously monitor for PII. Today, 360 Privacy serves one-third of Fortune 100 companies as customers.

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National Safety Council data leak: Credentials of NASA, Tesla, DoJ, Verizon, and 2K others leaked by workplace safety organization

Security Affairs

The National Safety Council has leaked nearly 10,000 emails and passwords of their members, exposing 2000 companies, including governmental organizations and big corporations. The vulnerability posed a risk not only to NSC systems but also to the companies using NSC services.

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Financial institutions ordered to notify customers after a breach, have an incident response plan

Malwarebytes

The requirement is an adoption of amendments to Regulation S-P, which was enacted in 2000 to safeguard the financial information of consumers, requiring financial institutions to tell customers about how they use their personal information. But things have changed drastically since 2000.

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GUEST ESSAY – Notable events in hacking history that helped transform cybersecurity assessment

The Last Watchdog

Assessing the risks involved in using the latest technology is something our culture had to adopt in the early days of the computer. New technologies come with risks — there’s no denying that. It foreshadowed how encryption would come to be used as a foundation for Internet commerce – by companies and criminals.

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