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New CISOs should focus more on people and less on tech, report finds

SC Magazine

Jeff Pollard, vice president, principal analyst and lead author of the Forrester report, told SC Media that time and time again CISOs cited the ability to cultivate positive relationships as the most important quality to have early in a job. Relationships will be the foundation for all work that the CISO has to undertake,” Holland said.

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Fantastic or Frightening: FBI Accesses [Your?] Exchange Servers to Stop Attacks

SecureWorld News

Next, the FBI explains how it carried out the operation: "This warrant authorizes the United States to seize and copy from Microsoft Exchange Servers located in the United States the web shells identified in Attachment A, and to delete the web shells from those servers.

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The DoJ’s Microsoft mitigation: Real results, with a few hypothetical concerns

SC Magazine

The decision by Justice to dismantle ‘hundreds’ of web shells installed using Exchange Server vulnerabilities is being hailed as a landmark use of a new authority. Five years ago, providing the DoJ the authority to request warrants to do this was extremely controversial. Holland wasn’t alone. “I bricking a server).”. “The

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White House to Corporate America: Take Ransomware Threat Seriously

eSecurity Planet

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates New York City’s subway system, said this week that its operations were hacked in April by cybercriminals suspected of being sponsored by the Chinese government. Smaller public and private organizations also are being targeted by bad actors. The FUD approach is destined to fail.