Security News > 2020
As of early 2020, a mere 45% of IT infrastructure is public cloud-based, which means the next five years are going to be huge for cloud migrations from on-site servers-and potentially the private cloud as well. Rapid migration to the public cloud may not continue if IT professionals' biggest cloud concern isn't addressed: Security, which 70% cited as a reason their organization hasn't already adopted public cloud.
New Mexico's attorney general sued Google Thursday over allegations the tech company is illegally collecting personal data generated by children in violation of federal and state laws. In a separate case, Google already has agreed to pay $170 million combined to the Federal Trade Commission and New York state to settle allegations its YouTube video service collected personal data on children without their parents' consent.
As a result, thousands of events around the world are being canceled, postponed or turned into online-only events in the wake of the coronavirus and the looming threat of COVID-19. Shopify Unite 2020 developers conference was set for May 6-8 in Toronto and now the in-person portion is canceled and it will be an online-only event.
If the email is true, you can simply go to the Amazon site yourself, or use the Amazon app - the online location of Amazon isn't a secret. We don't know whether the crook who sent us the phishing email made a mistake, and used the wrong URL, or whether a second crook had arrived in the interim and then taken over the hacked server from the original hackers.
Today Friday the Threatpost team is preparing, so we've got Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch, myself and Tom Spring and Tara Seals with Threatpost here to talk about some of the biggest themes that we're going to be looking out for at RSA. Tom and Tara, how's it going? Well, I'm looking through some of the sessions that we're all going to be covering.
Burning Man aficionados anxious to get their tickets squared away for the 2020 "Experience" should beware: Fake concert organizers are offering passes in what researchers say is a very convincing and sophisticated scam effort. Fraudsters have set up a fake website that closely mimics the official Burning Man site, in an effort to fool visitors into thinking it's the real deal.
A U.S. Defense Department agency that's responsible for providing secure communications and IT equipment for the president and other top government officials says a data breach of one of its systems may have exposed personal data, including Social Security numbers. While Defense Department officials did not provide specifics about the data breach, such as when it happened or how many individuals may have been affected, the notification letter refers to a data breach of a system hosted by the agency.
Google has removed roughly 600 applications from Google Play for violating its ad-related policies, the Internet search giant announced this week. The company banned them from Google AdMob and Google Ad Manager, its ad monetization platforms.
Almost within a year after releasing Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection for macOS computers, Microsoft today announced a public preview of its antivirus software for various Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS and Debian. If this news hasn't gotten you excited yet.... Microsoft is also planning to soon release Defender ATP anti-malware apps for smartphones and other devices running Google's Android and Apple's iOS mobile operating systems.
Black Hat USA introduced mental wellness sessions in 2018, the theme of RSA 2020 is "The Human Element," and a new e-book challenges companies to address burnout in security operations centers. Dan Kaplan, director of content at Siemplify, wrote "The Art of Recognizing and Surviving SOC Burnout: A Complete Manual for Security Operations Professionals." The two-part e-book includes a test to measure personal burnout and lots of advice on how to cope with and avoid the problem.