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Honeywell announced the latest release of its Forge Cybersecurity Suite that includes several enhancements to help ensure business continuity in the face of mounting cyberthreats, uncertain global business conditions and continued supply chain disruption associated with remote operations. The new Honeywell Forge Cybersecurity Suite release incorporates new features such as enhanced industrial-grade remote access, increased asset discovery capabilities with active and passive functionality and improved cybersecurity risk monitoring.

England's Premier League is returning this week, with millions of soccer fans around the world looking to stream matches using their online video accounts. The NCSC has in the past flagged the hazards of scoring a cyber own-goal via poor password hygiene: Using easy-to-guess passwords or reusing passwords across online accounts is a continued issue, it said.

A blog post published Wednesday by Google explains what the company is doing to fight coronavirus-related attacks and what users can do to protect themselves as well. Implementing proactive monitoring for COVID-19-related malware and phishing emails, Google said that most of the observed threats are not new but are simply repackaged malicious campaigns designed to exploit all the attention on the coronavirus.

Endace announced that the EndaceProbe Analytics Platform is now integrated with Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR, the industry's first extended security, orchestration, automation and response platform with native threat intel management that empowers security leaders with instant capabilities against threats across their entire enterprise. Through this integration, Endace and Cortex XSOAR provide customers with network packet capture from within Cortex XSOAR playbooks to enable accelerated, evidence-led, forensic investigation of cyberthreats.

A drawback to these plans is that many of these facilities no longer classified as data centers remain vulnerable to cyberthreats, according to a Government Accountability Office audit released Thursday. The major concern that the GAO audit found is that these smaller facilities remain significant access points to federal IT infrastructures and without proper reporting and cybersecurity oversite, could provide vulnerable to a data breach or a larger-scale attack.

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State government officials from Michigan and Texas told a U.S. Senate committee on Tuesday that more federal resources are needed to help states combat cyberthreats, including ransomware. During the hearing, Senator Gary Peters of Michigan, the ranking Democratic committee member, noted at the hearing that while local and state governments are responsible for safeguarding elections and sensitive personal information, they don't always have the tools to defend against cyberthreats.

Iranian-led disinformation campaigns and other cyberthreats against the U.S. are likely to surge in the aftermath of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani's death, security and political experts told the House Homeland Security Committee Wednesday. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, noted during his opening remarks that this geopolitical tension could have "Dire consequences" for U.S. homeland security and asked the experts testifying to help lawmakers better understand the potential cyberthreats from Iran and its proxies.

An increasing number of US executives expressed concern about the prevalence of threats coming from foreign powers.

TV takeover, privacy threats, botnet concerns and Wi-Fi network compromise are all big concerns when it comes to connected TVs.