Security News > 2020

In a case of political revenge porn that is gripping the French nation almost as tightly as Griveaux was gripping himself, videos of him buffing the aubergine appeared on a short-lived satirical website apparently focusing on "Political pornography" and promptly went viral. Griveaux's official statement to the police claims that he sent the video person-to-person via a certain private messenging system - press reports do not name which one, unfortunately - that would delete the video after one minute.

This special edition of the ISMG Security Report offers a preview of top keynote presentations at the RSA 2020 conference, plus a look at important themes and health tips for attendees.

Google has banned nearly 600 Android apps from the Play Store for bombarding users with disruptive ads and violating its advertising guidelines. Back in 2018, Cheetah Mobile was accused of turning smartphones into stealthy click farms to engage in ad fraud, leading Google to ban a bunch of its apps from the Play Store.

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.

While some of the wildest technology expectations from the big and small screen may not have come to fruition, the last decade of identity and access management development didn't let us down. I believe identity access management cloud capabilities and integrations will continue their rapid spread - as well as their transformation of enterprise technology and the way we do business - in this new decade and beyond.

"We are seeing increasingly complex threat techniques being used across cloud applications, spanning from cloud phishing and malware delivery, to cloud command and control and ultimately cloud data exfiltration," said Ray Canzanese, Threat Research Director at Netskope. "Our research shows the sophistication and scale of the cloud enabled kill chain increasing, requiring security defenses that understand thousands of cloud apps to keep pace with attackers and block cloud threats. For these reasons, any enterprise using the cloud needs to modernize and extend their security architectures."

We talked with Evan Reiser, CEO of Abnormal Security, about how layering diverse defenses is crucial for stopping email attacks. BluBracket is the first comprehensive security solution for code in the enterprise-so developers can innovate and collaborate, and security teams can sleep at night.

Web attacks originating from the public cloud saw a 16% spike from November to December 2019. AWS was the top source of attacks, responsible for 94% of all web attacks coming from public clouds.

Georgian authorities on Thursday accused Russia's military intelligence of launching a large-scale cyberattack that targeted the government and private organizations with the goal of destabilizing the ex-Soviet nation. Georgia's Foreign Ministry said the Oct. 28 cyberattack was "Targeted at Georgia's national security and intended to harm Georgian citizens and government structures by disrupting and paralyzing the functionality of various organizations, causing anxiety among the general public."

Worldwide spending on information and communications technology is forecast to reach $4.3 trillion in 2020, an increase of 3.6% over 2019, according to IDC. Commercial and public sector spending on information technology, telecommunications services, and business services will account for nearly $2.7 trillion of the total in 2020 with consumer spending making up the remainder. The application development & deployment category will provide the strongest spending growth over the 2019-2023 forecast period with a five-year compound annual growth rates of 11.1%. Telecommunications services will represent more than one third of all ICT spending in 2020.