Security News > 2020 > July
Adoption of the email security protocol DMARC has continued to tick upwards, with the number of domains deploying DMARC records surpassing 1 million in the last two years - a 2.5 times greater total than in 2018. According to Tessian, out of the 60 percent of universities that do have DMARC in place, the DMARC policies have not been set up to quarantine or outright reject any emails from unauthorized senders using its domains.
A report released Tuesday by security provider Tala Security maintains that most major websites are ill-equipped to combat the flaws in JavaScript, thus putting their customer and user data at risk. For its "2020 Global Data at Risk State of the Web Report," Tala analyzed the security defenses of the top 1,000 websites as ranked by Alexa.
Sweat tech: Tonal CEO Aly Orady explains why big data and AI are the pedals that power the future of fitness. If you are working out at the gym, you are normally guessing how much weight you should lift-even a personal trainer is eyeballing it.
Sweat tech: Tonal CEO Aly Orady explains why big data and AI are the pedals that power the future of fitness.
Britain's government on Tuesday backtracked on plans to give Chinese telecommunications company Huawei a limited role in the U.K.'s new high-speed mobile phone network in a decision with broad implications for relations between London and Beijing. The U.S. threatened to sever an intelligence-sharing arrangement with the UK because of concerns Huawei equipment could allow the Chinese government to infiltrate U.K. networks.
Scope of last summer’s data leak at the hotel chain appears to be far more expansive than previously thought.
Two months ago, we wrote about a malware gang that we dubbed RATicate. The name RAT was originally coined as a metaphor that referred as much to the criminals that deployed the malware as to the malware itself.
Blockchain cybersecurity startup Valid Network today announced raising $8 million in a seed funding round, bringing the total raised by the company to $10 million. Valid plans to use the new funds to fuel research and development, increase its team in Israel, and also open an office in New York City, to expand its business in the United States.
Traceable, a company that has developed a security monitoring platform for cloud applications, emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday. Bansal previously founded AppDynamics, an application performance management and IT operations analytics company that was sold to Cisco in 2017 for $3.7 billion.
A 2019 study found that most companies allow mobile devices to access between 1/3 and 3/4 of their most business-critical information. Cybercriminals know that mobile devices are less secure, so it's no surprise that last year Verizon found that 4 in 10 companies were breached through a mobile device.