EDR deployments will be underway at more than half of federal civilian agencies by the end of September, according to federal officials. CISA is currently in the process of deploying EDR across 26 federal civilian agencies and expects to have work underway at 53 agencies by Sept. 30, 2022.
The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, or ACFE, has released its study titled "Report to the Nations." Mason Wilder, research manager at the ACFE, shares some important findings from the report and discusses how occupational fraud is reported and which organizations are affected by it.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has announced that it is temporarily removing a Windows protection defect from its Known Exploited Vulnerability Catalog because of a risk of authentication failures after the recent Microsoft patch update.
Ransomware actor Conti, which has been targeting Costa Rican government entities since April 2022, has claimed on its leak site Conti News that it has "insiders" in the country's government, and they are working toward the compromise of "other systems."
Google will offer customers access to the same technology it uses to lock down developer workflows to ensure open-source dependencies are addressed. Assured Open Source Software will allow clients to ensure third-party software they're using is scanned, analyzed and fuzz-tested for vulnerabilities.
U.S. authorities have charged a cardiologist based in Venezuela with developing and selling multiple strains of ransomware, including Jigsaw and Thanos, as well as recruiting affiliates to use the crypto-locking malware against victims in return for a cut of any ransoms paid.
Many experts advise organizations to pivot from a maturity-based approach to a risk-based approach to cybersecurity. Tia Hopkins, field CTO and chief cyber risk strategist at eSentire, discusses where the maturity-based approach falls short and how a risk-based approach can help organizations.
In this episode of "Cybersecurity Unplugged," Tim Danks of Global Risk Perspectives discusses issues around trusting our global supply chain, including the role of Huawei, the steps needed to secure critical infrastructure, and the process for determining a comfortable level of risk management.
In the latest "Proof of Concept," Lisa Sotto, Jeremy Grant and ISMG editors discuss the significance of Apple, Google and Microsoft supporting the FIDO protocol's passwordless sign-in standard, progress made on Biden's cybersecurity executive order and updates on U.S. cybersecurity and privacy laws.
Italian police reportedly thwarted attempts to disrupt online voting for the music competition Eurovision, allegedly perpetrated by a hacking group called Killnet in retaliation for Russia not being allowed to compete at this year's festival, due to its invasion of Ukraine.
The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on Friday reached a provisional agreement to set a "baseline for cybersecurity risk management measures and reporting obligations." Called NIS2, it is a modernized framework based on the EU Network and Information Security Directive.
As attack surfaces have grown, so has risk - and adversaries are finding new ways to infiltrate organizations. Wade Ellery of Radiant Logic discusses the convergence of risk, identity management and zero trust security, spelling out new strategies to defend attack surfaces and minimize risk.
If you were a nation with legions of hackers at your disposal, seeking to sidestep crippling international sanctions, would you look to ransomware to fund your regime? That question is posed by new research that finds state-sponsored North Korean hackers haven't stopped their ransomware experiments.
Mature cybersecurity startups are beginning to slow hiring and prune operating expenses as macroeconomic storm clouds obscure future funding sources. Emerging vendors must grapple with an IPO market that has essentially dried up and investors unwilling to offer valuations anywhere near 2021 levels.
The Linux Foundation and the Open Source Security Foundation have put forth a nearly $150 million investment plan, spread across two years, to strengthen open-source security in the U.S. The plan was announced at the Open Source Software Security Summit II in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.
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