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FBI Director Christopher Wray today offered the House Homeland Security Committee some sobering news about China – the FBI opens a new China-related counterintelligence case roughly every 10 hours. Wray said of the nearly 5,000 active FBI counterintelligence cases underway across the U.S., almost half are related to China. He said China aims to compromise…. .

By partnering with the popular Chinese videosharing platform TikTok, Oracle will inherit a laundry list of security and privacy issues once the deal is approved, as soon as Sept. 20, by TikTok parent company ByteDance. TikTok boasts 100 million users in the U.S. and 689 million globally. Earlier this year President Trump threatened to ban…. .

Employers should open the aperture, emphasizing business skills and personal qualities over technical skills and certifications. .

Metrics do come with certain drawbacks, especially when hiring managers are looking to check a box. .

As the developing world follows in the steps of the West and begins entering an age of saturated connectivity, it’s important for people in leadership positions to set the tone for a culture of cybersecurity, said former chief security officer for the Department of Defense Jonathan Reiber on Thursday.

That anti-phishing training email your employees just received may, ironically, actually be a phishing email, according to cyber threat analysts who recently uncovered a security awareness-themed online social engineering campaign. In a blog post on Wednesday, experts at Cofense reported uncovering a phishing campaign that sends emails purporting to be a notification urging employees to…. .

It comes as no surprise to enterprises when an otherwise productive employee unknowingly opens the organization to risk or even causes a breach. The knee-jerk culpability typically gets attributed to the cloud provider, yet Gartner warns that through 2025, at least 99 percent of cloud security failures are the cutomer’s fault. Gartner’s statement implies…. .

"You really need to move from the whole of government approach to a whole of society approach,” said Jonatan Vseviov, Estonia’s ambassador to the U.S. told SC Media during a fireside chat Wednesday. .

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) disclosure that the information of 46,000 U.S. service people recently was breached through an apparent social engineering scheme underscores the need for government vigilance even when a significant investment has been made in state-of-the-art protection.

The Department of Justice on Wednesday unsealed indictments secured between August 2019 and August 2020 of seven foreign nationals accused of a bevy of international hacking incidents. The five Chinese and two Malaysian defendants are alleged members of a group often called APT 41, Wicked Panda or Wicked Spider, which is known to commit economic…. .

If you’re anywhere near the security space you’ve heard it: “Security slows everything down.” And while we may roll eyes and offer up a quick, “yeah but…” in some cases, we know that sentiment can be true. Of course businesses need security; and of course security is expected – but I often find myself challenging…. .

Leaders from both the private and public sectors united to oppose an amicus brief filed with the Supreme Court that they say advocates a broad interpretation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and could peg independent security researchers as threats.

Discussing the new bill, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., noted the insecurity of IoT products could have broad national effects. .

A Windows vulnerability recently patched by Microsoft, registering a CVSS score of 10, could allow attackers instant access to Active Directory. The vulnerability (CVE-2020-1472) subverts Netlogon cryptography, providing a gateway to an enterprise’s internal network for an intruder to gain Domain Admin status with one click, according to a Secura blog post. “This flaw allows…. .

The internet was rocked by a very public breach on Twitter during July in which dozens of celebrity accounts were compromised. The hacked accounts announced all at once that they’d double “donations” made to their personal bitcoin account, which in reality was a cryptocurrency scheme. As more details emerged, we learned that the cybercriminals behind…. .

An automated campaign Magecart campaign against 2,000 Magento stores over the weekend compromised the private information of thousands of customers and may very well be the largest attack of its kind since 2015. While the hacks were typical Magecart attacks, since many of the stores victimized had no prior history of security incidents, “this suggests…. .

Long at the forefront of protecting sensitive information from cyberattacks, health care organizations had to pivot quickly to ensure as the COVID-19 pandemic imposed new threats on a vulnerable newly remote workforce. And adapt they did, even as bad actors exploited a fragile, fragmented infrastructure suddenly reliant on telehealth visits. The lessons learned from the…. .

Experts told SC Media that the auditing and reporting process is an important component of a health care organization’s data privacy strategy in order to catch violations, and that particular focus should be paid to "records that would be of high interest or curiosity.". .

The pandemic has fundamentally changed how security teams think about protecting the business, in many cases accelerating digital transformation projects and placing renewed emphasis on the Zero Trust model for information security. As security teams implement Zero Trust, it’s important to consider access management and control. In doing so, this reflects a larger shift in…. .

Attackers using a novel credential phishing attack that leverages Active Directory to verify a victim’s password and gain access to an Office 365 account targeted a top financial person in a division of a large American corporation. Once inside a victim’s account, bad actors could access sensitive financial documents, emails, calendar items and contact lists,…. .

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