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• March 20, 2019 20 Mar'19

  Experts praise Norsk Hydro cyberattack response

  Aluminum manufacturer Norsk Hydro was hit with ransomware that forced a switch to manual operations. The company's incident response has experts impressed.

• March 19, 2019 19 Mar'19

  Bobbie Stempfley: Cybersecurity AI has a long way to go

  Many cybersecurity vendors have embraced AI and machine learning, but CERT Division's Bobbie Stempfley says more work is needed around testing algorithms and validating results.

• March 19, 2019 19 Mar'19

  Critical WinRAR bug exploited in targeted attacks

  A critical WinRAR bug that was exposed after 19 years is already being exploited in targeted attacks in the Middle East and United States, despite the availability of patch.

• March 15, 2019 15 Mar'19

  Despite reservations about NSA's Ghidra, experts see value

  The NSA's reverse-engineering tool, Ghidra, was released to the public and despite some initial concerns experts are generally bullish on the prospects for the free software.

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  Election security threats loom as presidential campaigns begin

  Fragile electronic voting systems and the weaponization of social media continue to menace U.S. election systems as presidential candidates ramp up their 2020 campaigns.

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  SANS Institute: DNS attacks gaining steam in 2019

  At RSA Conference 2019, experts from the SANS Institute discuss the most dangerous attack techniques they've seen, including DNS manipulation and domain fronting.

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  Citrix data breach report raises more questions

  Citrix disclosed a potential data breach blamed on poor password security, but a lack of details about the attack leaves only unconfirmed claims from a single cybersecurity firm.

• March 11, 2019 11 Mar'19

  Zscaler charts sharp increase in SSL threats like phishing, botnets

  Threat actors are exploiting encryption protocols to deliver malicious content, according to Zscaler, which found a 400% increase in SSL-based phishing threats last year.

• March 08, 2019 08 Mar'19

  VMware firewall strategy to focus on 'known good' behavior

  VMware is taking a different approach to firewalls by focusing on 'known good' behavior to better police east-west traffic within enterprise environments.

• March 08, 2019 08 Mar'19

  Battling misinformation focus of Facebook, Twitter execs' talk

  Facebook and Twitter executives say finding a pattern of malicious activity is more effective in identifying bad actors on sites than looking at the misleading information itself.

• March 07, 2019 07 Mar'19

  Nation-state threats grow more sophisticated, converge on targets

  Incident response experts say nation-state cyberattacks are so common that they find threat actors from multiple nations operating in the same victim environment.

• March 07, 2019 07 Mar'19

  Microsoft promotes zero-trust security over firewalls

  Microsoft told RSA Conference attendees a zero-trust model is better than firewalls for protecting corporate data -- a stance that some said doesn't go far enough.

• March 07, 2019 07 Mar'19

  RSAC 2019: Coverage of the premiere security gathering

  Find out what's happening at the at the 2019 RSA Conference in San Francisco, the information security industry's biggest event, with breaking news and analysis by the SearchSecurity team.

• March 07, 2019 07 Mar'19

  FBI: How we stopped the Mirai botnet attacks

  FBI Special Agent Elliott Peterson gave RSA attendees a behind-the-scenes look at the investigation into the Mirai botnet following the devastating DDoS attacks in 2016.

• March 07, 2019 07 Mar'19

  Cryptography techniques must keep pace with threats, experts warn

  Cryptographers at RSAC 2019 discussed personal data protection laws and challenges, future threats and the pressure for tech companies to work with law enforcement on decryption.