CSO Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Enterprise-class password managers have become one of the easiest and most cost-effective ways to help employees lock down their online accounts. Learn 12 tips for effectively presenting cybersecurity to the board and 6 steps for building a robust incident response plan. Sign up for CSO newsletters. ].

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 3, 2023

Undoubtedly, our industry needs to create more initiatives to attract a more diverse group of professionals—including women—to STEM-focused careers like cybersecurity. While women make up nearly 50% of the world’s population, they only account for an estimated 24% of the cybersecurity workforce.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2023

Guardz, a Tel Aviv-based startup promising a broad range of out-of-the-box cybersecurity solutions for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs), has announced both a successful $10 million round of seed funding and the broad availability of its flagship product. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

In December 2020, the US Government Accounting Office (GAO) made 145 recommendations to 23 federal agencies relating to supply chain risks. In May 2021, the GAO’s director of information technology and cybersecurity, Vijay A. Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ].

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Ride-hailing giant Uber has confirmed that it is responding to a cybersecurity incident as reports emerge that the firm has suffered a significant network data breach forcing it to shut down several internal communications and engineering systems. Attacker announces Uber breach through compromised Slack account.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Millennials and Gen Z employees in the US are much less likely to prioritize or adhere to cybersecurity protocols than their older Gen X and Baby Boomer counterparts, according to a recent survey by EY Consulting. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

MAY 19, 2022

Users of Strapi, a popular headless content management system written entirely in JavaScript and focused on API development, should update their installations as soon as possible to fix two vulnerabilities that could lead to administrative accounts being compromised. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

Learn 12 tips for effectively presenting cybersecurity to the board and 6 steps for building a robust incident response plan. Sign up for CSO newsletters. ]. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

MAY 28, 2021

These efforts recently escalated with an attack launched from a hijacked email marketing account belonging to USAID and targeted around 3,000 people across over 150 organizations in 24 countries. Learn 12 tips for effectively presenting cybersecurity to the board and 6 steps for building a robust incident response plan.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new cybersecurity service, Amazon Security Lake, which automatically centralizes security data from cloud and on-premises sources into a purpose-built data lake in a customer’s AWS account, the company said in a statement. To read this article in full, please click here

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 30, 2023

Seasoned CISOs/CSOs understand the importance of effectively communicating cyber risk and the need for investment in cybersecurity defense to the board of directors. To ensure cybersecurity becomes a strategic part of the corporate culture, it is crucial for CISOs to present the topic in a clear, concise, and compelling manner.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 12, 2022

Private risk consultancy firm Concentric has announced the launch of Eclipse, a new “turnkey solution” designed to provide enhanced cybersecurity and digital privacy to users. In a press release , Concentric stated that Eclipse packages are available to all users in three different tiers: To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

To read this article in full, please click here To some, recent AI developments are a laughing matter. In reality, it was an April fool’s prank with MITRE’s social media team cranking out funny answers in the guise of a chatbot.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 17, 2023

Financially motivated threat actor UNC3944 is using phishing and SIM swapping attacks to take over Microsoft Azure admin accounts and gain access to virtual machines (VM), according to cybersecurity firm Mandiant. To read this article in full, please click here UNC3944 has been active since May 2022.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 24, 2023

Italian cybersecurity firm Cleafy has found “Nexus”, a new Android Trojan capable of hijacking online accounts and siphoning funds from them, to be targeting customers from 450 banks and cryptocurrency services worldwide. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

According to Google Cybersecurity Action Team (GCAT) September 2022 Threat Horizons Report , threat actors frequently targeted weak and default passwords to access Google Cloud accounts. Once inside the compromised cloud accounts, they performed cryptomining 65% of the time. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 14, 2023

Researchers investigating an Office 365 account compromise resulting from an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing attack found evidence of a much larger global attack campaign that spans the past year and is possibly tied to an infostealer malware called FormBook. "In To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 9, 2022

Proofpoint cybersecurity researchers have identified ramped-up activities by China-aligned APT (advanced persistent threat) actor TA416, targeting European diplomatic entities as the war between Russia and Ukraine intensifies. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 9, 2023

GitHub has begun its official rollout of two-factor authentication (2FA) for developers who contribute code to the platform to enhance the security of accounts and the software supply chain. To read this article in full, please click here

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 26, 2023

According to a SolarWinds spokesperson quoted in the CNN article: "We are cooperating in a long investigative process that seems to be progressing to charges by the SEC against our company and officers. While these Wells Notices are official investigations, they are a sign of a potential intent to investigate the CISO and CFO.

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CSO Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Using multi-factor authentication (MFA) is one of the key components of an organizations Identity and Access Management (IAM) program to maintain a strong cybersecurity posture. This is a primary reason why MFA was a key topic for this year’s cybersecurity awareness month. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 14, 2023

The attacker also created fake GitHub and Twitter accounts posing as security researchers and even used real photos of researchers from well-known cybersecurity firms. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The US Government Accounting Office (GAO) continues to highlight shortcomings in the cybersecurity posture of government entities responsible for the protection of United States infrastructure when it comes to internet of things (IoT) and operational technology (OT) devices and systems. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

As the old security adage goes, “a well-managed network/system is a secure network/system," and this notion of network and system management is a cybersecurity foundation. NIST Cybersecurity framework), international standard (e.g., To read this article in full, please click here Pick any framework (e.g.,

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The cybersecurity company has identified 34 Russian-speaking groups distributing info-stealing malware under the stealer-as-a-service model. To read this article in full, please click here This data is then sold or used for fraud on the dark web.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 2, 2023

The report is based on Tenable Research team’s analysis of cybersecurity events, vulnerabilities and trends throughout 2022, including an analysis of 1,335 data breach incidents publicly disclosed between November 2021 and October 2022. billion records were exposed, which accounted for 257 terabytes of data.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 15, 2022

In a move designed to bolster its XDR (extended detection and response) platform, Singularity, to defend against the latest cybersecurity threats, endpoint security vendor SentinelOne plans to acquire IAM (identity and access management) provider Attivo Networks for $616.5 To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

JULY 7, 2022

According to the NIST , “Zero trust (ZT) is the term for an evolving set of cybersecurity paradigms that move defenses from static, network-based perimeters to focus on users, assets, and resources. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

"The cyber kill chain was a great way to break down the classic steps in a breach," says Michael Salihoglu, cybersecurity managing consultant at Crowe, a public accounting, consulting, and technology firm. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

MAY 31, 2023

Cybersecurity vendors Trellix and Netskope have announced new support for Amazon Security Lake from AWS, which became generally available on May 30. The service automatically centralizes security data from cloud and on-premises sources into a purpose-built data lake in a customer’s AWS account.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 16, 2022

By Amanda Fennell, CSO and CIO, Relativity. Security programs must shoulder accountability for setting employees in different roles up for success. Effective learning management systems are available that take into account the human attention span. But tools and processes alone are two variables in an incomplete equation.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 22, 2023

Most companies now recognize the serious and insidious nature of cybersecurity threats. To read this article in full, please click here This surge in identities has exponentially increased the likelihood of cyberattacks, undercutting the effectiveness of traditional identity and access management (IAM) paradigms.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2022

IT, networking, and cybersecurity solutions giant Cisco has admitted suffering a security incident targeting its corporate IT infrastructure in late May 2022. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2022

Cybersecurity risk assessment company Safe Security on Tuesday rolled out two new online risk assessment tools for businesses to use, in order to help them understand their vulnerability to cyberattacks and the costs of insuring against them. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

According to the NIST , “Zero trust (ZT) is the term for an evolving set of cybersecurity paradigms that move defenses from static, network-based perimeters to focus on users, assets, and resources. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2021

But did you know small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) account for at least half of all ransomware attacks, if not closer to two-thirds, according to the U.S. First, it comes down to sheer numbers: SMBs are the heart of most economies, accounting for 90% of businesses worldwide and representing over 50% of employment.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 11, 2021

For instance, Winick cited a 2017 New York Post article that suggested credit rating company Equifax had blamed its software vendor for a major breach, “thus violating another crisis communications commandment of ‘Be accountable.’” To borrow from the U.S.

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