Security News > 2021 > May
61 percent of respondents indicate that their cybersecurity teams are understaffed. Understaffed cybersecurity teams and attacks issues.
According to a recent study conducted by Forrester Consulting, insider risk management is of greater concern now for 74% of companies than it was before the pandemic. The research explores how companies are currently treating insider risk management and the changes being adopted to pursue a more holistic approach to data risk management as part of zero trust strategies.
PC maker Dell has issued an update to fix multiple critical privilege escalation vulnerabilities that went undetected since 2009, potentially allowing attackers to gain kernel-mode privileges and cause a denial-of-service condition. The issues, reported to Dell by researchers from SentinelOne on Dec. 1, 2020, reside in a firmware update driver named "Dbutil 2 3.sys" that comes pre-installed on its devices.
To improve news literacy and reduce the spread of misinformation, NYUAD Center for Cybersecurity researcher and lead author Nicholas Micallef is part of a team that designed Fakey, a game that emulates a social media news feed and prompts players to use available signals to recognize and scrutinize suspicious content and focus on credible information. The researchers found that the more players interacted with articles in the game, the better their skills at spotting credible content became.
Yubico announced its next-generation FIPS security keys: the YubiKey 5 FIPS Series. The addition of the YubiKey 5 NFC, YubiKey 5C NFC, and YubiKey 5Ci into the FIPS series lineup significantly expands coverage for mobile-first environments that many organizations have been waiting for.
The company providing internet services for Belgium's parliament, government agencies, universities and scientific institutions said Tuesday that its network was under cyberattack, with connections to several customers disrupted. Belnet said in a statement the attack "Is still in progress and takes place in successive waves. Our teams are working hard to mitigate them." The company has around 200 customers.
ThreatQuotient announced ThreatQ TDR Orchestrator, a new data-driven automation capability for more efficient and effective threat detection and response. "The security industry's approach to automation has overlooked the vastly different needs of detection and response use cases," said Leon Ward, VP of Product Management, ThreatQuotient.
Amazon Web Services announced Amazon FinSpace, a purpose-built analytics service that reduces the time it takes FSI organizations to find, prepare, and analyze financial data from months to minutes. Amazon FinSpace provides an easy-to-use web application that gives analysts at hedge funds, asset management firms, insurance companies, investment banks, and other FSI organizations access to the information they need and the ability to run powerful analytics on demand across all of their data.
BigID announced the release of the BigID App Marketplace, designed to provide BigID customers with modular add-on apps for data privacy, protection, and perspective - in a unified data management platform. BigID's app marketplace makes it easy for organizations to get more value from their data discovery, catalog and classification by easily adding apps for actioning data in data compliance, security or governance.
DigiCert announced the DigiCert Smart Seal, a new dynamic site seal that gives website visitors confidence that their information is secure on the web. The DigiCert Smart Seal is the first seal to visually display the site owner's brand via a verified brand logo.