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Threat Stack announced it has hired Peter Basile as VP of Marketing and Kathleen DeShields as VP of HR. These new hires join Threat Stack during a time of rapid growth with increasing customer bookings and average deal sizes enabling the company to exceed its 2020 growth plan despite the global economic impact of COVID-19. Peter Basile joins Threat Stack as the Vice President of Marketing with a focus on accelerating the company's growth trajectory.
One stressor for IT and security workers around the world has been the abrupt and unexpected transition to a remote workforce. SEE: How to work from home: IT pro's guidebook to telecommuting and remote work.
E-commerce platform provider Shopify on Tuesday said two members of its support staff were caught accessing customer information without authorization. According to Shopify, the two employees used their permissions to access customer transactional records from some merchants.
Microsoft announced on Tuesday at its Ignite 2020 conference that it has extended its threat protection portfolio and it has unified some of its cybersecurity solutions. Microsoft Defender includes Microsoft 365 Defender, formerly Microsoft Threat Protection, and Azure Defender, which includes the cloud workload protections in the Azure Security Center.
Cisco flagged threats like Kovter, Poweliks, Divergent and LemonDuck as the most common fileless malware. Another prevalent critical threat to endpoints in the first half was dual-use tools that are typically leveraged for both exploitation and post-exploitation tasks.
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According to the data, in H1 2020, 43 percent of the malicious mails on the radars of Group-IB Threat Detection System had attachments with spyware or links leading to their downloading. Ransomware, which in the second half of 2019 hid in every second malicious email, almost disappeared from the mailboxes in the first six months of this year with a share of less than 1 percent.
The usage of banking services through a mobile app has quickly been embraced by consumers. Currently, researches indicate that mobile banking apps are often not as secure as expected.
The phrase "Assume breach" has been transformational to enterprise security investment and defensive strategy for a few years but may now be close to retirement. Sizable investments in enterprisewide visibility should have reversed the much older adage "a defender needs to be right all the time, while the attacker needs to be right only once" into something like "An attacker needs to be invisible all the time, while the defender needs them to slip up only once." Unfortunately, security operations and threat-hunting teams have found that instead of automatically spotting needles in a haystack, they must now manage haystacks of needles-if they're properly equipped.
A new survey of cybersecurity experts by Gartner found that analysts are most concerned about the rapidly evolving threat landscape, which has changed exponentially since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gartner conducted the Security and IAM Solution Adoption Trend Survey online in March and April, taking in responses from 405 experts in North America, Western Europe, and the Asia/Pacific region.