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Some consider Necurs to be the largest botnet ever, with estimates from 2017 indicating that, at the time, it consisted of more than 6,000,000 infected computers. In its blog post, Microsoft said that, along with partners, it's been spending the past eight years tracking and planning to knock the knees off Necurs.
Data from ESET telemetry suggests that, for this campaign, only a very limited number of visitors were considered interesting by Turla's operators. The two compromised government websites and another pair of poisoned civilian websites have been active since early 2019.
RSA Conference, the world's leading information security conference and exposition, concluded its 29th annual event in San Francisco. More than 36,000 attendees, 704 speakers and 658 exhibitors gathered at the Moscone Center to explore the Human Element in cybersecurity through hundreds of keynote presentations, track sessions, tutorials, seminars and special events.
Computer scientists at KU Leuven have once again exposed a security flaw in Intel processors. Plundervolt, Zombieload, Foreshadow: in the past couple of years, Intel has had to issue quite a few patches for vulnerabilities that computer scientists at KU Leuven have helped to expose.
"This lack of confidence shows that many organizations approach risk management in an outdated and ineffective manner," said Matt Shinkman, vice president in the Gartner Risk and Audit practice. Organizations often have policies in place to deal with most risks, but they don't activate them until it's too late because no one is owning the risk or taking it seriously until it is fully manifested.
How can we apply Pareto's principle to cloud security? Within your security activities, what is the key 20 percent that will produce 80 percent of your results when it comes to reducing risk? Exposed data was the most cited cloud security incident and the biggest overall concern of leaders in Cybersecurity Insider's 2019 Cloud Security Report.
If the number of women working in cybersecurity in the United States equalled that of men, the economic footprint of the U.S. cybersecurity industry would increase by $30.4 billion, according to Tessian. The report highlights the potential impact of expanding gender diversity in cybersecurity as well as current perceptions around gender bias in the field.
"Even with cyber insurance and preventive measures in place, the growing frequency and sophistication of attacks calls for government entities to perform cyber health checks and revisit resilience strategies. The effort more than pays off." Key considerations for organizations Smarter systems architecture - Many state and local governments have deferred IT modernization, which leaves governments with increasingly vulnerable networks and systems.
ClearDATA, the leader in healthcare public cloud security, compliance and privacy, announced a new Software as a Service solution, ClearDATA Locate Mask, that enables healthcare organizations to leverage unstructured datasets containing PHI or PII by masking or redacting the sensitive data. Powered by industry-leading machine learning models, Locate Mask solves healthcare's common challenge of broadly sharing patient data securely and in a compliant fashion.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced a breakthrough in the journey to true 5G adoption with the launch of HPE 5G Core Stack, an open, cloud-native 5G core network solution that accelerates the journey to new 5G revenue streams, seamlessly integrates with previous generation networks and is future proofed for forthcoming milestones in 5G standards. HPE 5G Core Stack will be available as a pre-integrated software and hardware solution, on a pay-as-you-use basis with HPE GreenLake, allowing telcos to deploy a 5G core network with reduced risk and little upfront investment.