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FireEye unveiled two new insider threat security services from Mandiant. The new services help organizations establish or scale up insider threat programs and are designed to provide ongoing protection against rapidly evolving and dynamic malicious activities within organizations.
Isolating your hardware and your applications is a more effective way to prevent malware from infecting your critical endpoints, says HP. Defending your organization against malware used to a matter of running the right antivirus software to detect and block any security threats. The HP-Bromium Threat Insights Report looks at malware observed during the fourth quarter of 2020.
Most notably, 29% of respondents experienced increased security threats and 30% of businesses admitting to not having enough mobile devices to offer to their remote workers. Seven out of ten employees admit to using personal devices for work - either exclusively or alongside a work device - with 18% noting that they haven't felt confident in the security of their device for the last 12 months.
A new report from Forrester is giving enterprises a path forward out of the pandemic with a serious security warning: There are five major problems, and five attack vectors, which could slow post-pandemic progress in 2021. The five greatest threats to businesses in 2021 will be different from those in 2020, but Forrester is predicting the attack vectors used by cybercriminals to be similar to those from last year.
The addition of DFLabs to the Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform will provide customers of varying sizes and maturities with comprehensive cloud-native security intelligence solutions built for today's digital businesses that leverage modern applications, architectures and multi-cloud infrastructures. "Security in the modern world is moving from a human-scale problem to a machine-scale problem," said Greg Martin, Vice President and General Manager of Sumo Logic Security Business Unit.
US regulators on Friday listed Huawei among Chinese telecom gear firms deemed a threat to national security, signaling that a hoped for softening of relations is not in the cards. A roster of communications companies thought to pose "An unacceptable risk" to national security included Huawei Technologies; ZTE; Hytera Communications; Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology, and Dahua Technology.
At least 10 threat actors are currently involved in the targeting of Microsoft Exchange servers that are affected by recently disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities, according to cybersecurity firm ESET. On March 2, Microsoft announced patches for four bugs that were part of a pre-authentication remote code execution attack chain already being exploited in the wild. Now, ESET reveals that at least 10 threat actors are actively engaged in such attacks, including Tick, LuckyMouse, Calypso, Websiic, Winnti Group, Tonto Team, ShadowPad, Mikroceen, and DLTMiner.
Vaccine deployment has encountered bumps in the road as many people are still uncertain over when, where and how to get their shots. Pointing to one example, Check Point said it recently discovered a malicious website impersonating the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and promising vaccine information.
The Biden administration has named China as the most threatening nation the United States faces, on grounds that it can combine its technological and other capabilities like no other. That assessment was offered in a new Interim National Security Guidance [PDF] issued on Wednesday, in which the administration also outlines plans to seek more regulation of advanced technologies and an intention to strike back after cyberattacks.