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Insider threats, ransomware and cyber espionage were all in decline in the early part of 2020, according to the EU's cybersecurity agency - though the risk of an "Uncontrolled cyber arms race" among nation states is growing. The EU Agency for Cybersecurity said in its annual report issued today that those three categories of cyber threat were in decline up until April this year when COVID-19-related lockdowns began.

I think my husband's arrived at like, 1:30 or something in the morning, Thursday morning, so they kind of sent this out under cover of darkness, which I'm sure they want to minimize the publicity around it, but that's not going to happen because it's Barnes and Noble. Over the weekend, the Nook e-book reader - which my mom has one of those and they're kind of awesome - but the syncing feature for that went down and there was this outage that continued and it just kind of trended on a low level, nobody really knew what was going on.

The growing volume and complexities of cyber threats present a compelling case for adopting threat intelligence platforms, a Frost & Sullivan analysis finds. These solutions help organizations navigate the ever-increasing threat landscape and allow for further analysis and threat intelligence operationalization.

With both security budgets and talent pools negatively affected by the ongoing pandemic, state and local governments are struggling to cope with the constant wave of cyber threats more than ever before, a Deloitte study reveals. Collaboration with local governments and public higher education is critical to managing increasingly complex cyber risk within state borders.

BAE Systems has unveiled a next-generation cyber-threat detection and mitigation solution for U.S. military platforms. The system's cyber resilience capabilities can be integrated into ground, air, and space vehicles to protect our warfighters and platforms from cyber attacks designed to access and degrade mission capabilities.

Companies worldwide have continued to receive extortion emails threatening to launch a distributed denial-of-service attack on their network, unless they pay up - with British foreign-exchange company Travelex reportedly being one recent high-profile threat recipient. While the ransom DDoS campaign has been ongoing since August and has received widespread coverage, researchers with Radware said in a Wednesday post that they are continuing to see companies worldwide receive the extortion emails - and that attackers are becoming more sophisticated.

Intel on Wednesday talked up a set of security features planned for its promised third-generation Xeon Scalable Processors, code-named Ice Lake, which are supposed to show up before the end of the year. The chip biz said it's "Doubling down on its Security First Pledge," as if some sort of quantitative measurement of security could be calculated and weighed against prior security commitments.

Cyborg Security announced a new threat hunting content platform that will help businesses grapple with the exponential rise in cyber threats that strike their IT assets and maximize the value of their existing security controls. Cyborg Security's HUNTR platform has been developed by a world class team of threat hunting experts to deliver advanced threat hunting and detection content, empowering organizations to move beyond reactive security, to proactive threat hunting.

CPRA, the Californian GDPR? Set to appear on the November 2020 ballot, the CPRA, also known as CCPA 2.0 or Prop 24, builds on what is already the most comprehensive data protection law in the US. In essence, the CPRA will bring data protection in California nearer to the current European legal standard, the General Data Protection Regulation. Besides enhancing consumer rights, the CPRA also creates new provisions for employee data as it relates to their employers, as well as data that businesses collect from B2B business partners.

The PCI Security Standards Council and the ATM Industry Association issued a joint bulletin to highlight an increasing threat that requires urgent awareness and attention. An ATM cash-out attack is an elaborate and choreographed attack in which criminals breach a bank or payment card processor and manipulate fraud detection controls as well as alter customer accounts so there are no limits to withdraw money from numerous ATMs in a short period of time.