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US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has announced a "Clean Network plan" he says offers a "Comprehensive approach to guarding our citizens' privacy and our companies' most sensitive information from aggressive intrusions by malign actors, such as the Chinese Communist Party." Clean Carrier: To ensure untrusted People's Republic of China carriers are not connected with US telecommunications networks.
Critical flaws in the popular Meetup platform were revealed Monday as part of research unleashed at this week's Black Hat USA 2020. Erez Yalon, the director of security research with Checkmarx, discussed why these critical vulnerabilities are a "Holy grail" for attackers, and explained how the bugs are indicative of overall application security trends that will be discussed this week at Black Hat USA 2020.
At this year's Black Hat USA 2020 computer security conference, some of the top trends expected to surface include ransomware, election security and how to protect a remote workforce. Young continued, "At Black Hat 2020 I expect we'll hear most about XDR as threats have learned to not set off the known obvious alarms and blocking and are more stealthy as they move between traditional security silos. Related to that will be protecting a remote workforce, and the Mitre ATT&CK framework and more complex threat-hunting. Although the talks won't likely be labeled as such, cyber resilience will be a consistent thread reflecting the transformation that businesses and governments of all sizes had to undergo during the first half of this year."
I know, it's not presented by Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, necessarily, but there is always really cool car security research that comes out of Black Hat. You know, it'll be interesting to see how I mean how the vendors deal with communicating their messages outside of the Black Hat in a sense that you know, so much about Black Hat wasn't actually about the sessions, but some of the off-site stuff and some of the meet and greets and some of the private briefings.
BDO USA launched Athenagy, a proprietary business intelligence platform for legal professionals. Designed to integrate with a highly secure, customized Relativity®One environment, Athenagy helps legal professionals not just manage the business of e-discovery, but optimize it.
United States lawmakers this week will vote on an amendment to the surveillance bill known as the USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act that would limit law enforcement access to people's search and browsing histories. Enacted in June 2015, the USA FREEDOM Act amends, among others, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and USA PATRIOT Act, imposing limits on the bulk collection of data on U.S. citizens by the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies.
Cybersecurity conferences Black Hat USA and DEF CON 28 will not be held in person this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Both back-to-back annual conferences were set to take place in Las Vegas this year; Black Hat USA on Aug. 1 to 6, 2020, and DEF CON 28 on Aug. 7 to 9, 2020.
Foreign state hackers are trying to brute-force their way into pharmaceutical and medical research agencies hunting for a COVID-19 vaccine, British and American infosec agencies are warning. The National Cyber Security Centre and America's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency cautioned of a "Password spraying" campaign targeting healthcare and medical research organisations.
It's that time of year: RSA Conference 2020 USA is coming up in February. RSA Conference is in its 29th year, having grown and evolved to serve the changing needs of the members of the whole cybersecurity community.
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews and articles: Embracing the cloud and meeting its security demands You might expect that the largest companies are the...