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RSA Conference 2025 Innovation Sandbox Contest Celebrates 20th Anniversary
1 year 2 months ago
Starting in 2025, the RSAC Innovation Sandbox Top 10 Finalists will each receive a $5 million investment to drive cybersecurity innovation.
VISO TRUST Secures $24M to Accelerate Innovation in AI-Powered Third-Party Risk Management
1 year 2 months ago
Cloud Security Startup Wiz to Acquire Dazz in Risk Management Play
1 year 2 months ago
Dazz's remediation engine will boost risk management in Wiz's cloud security portfolio.
Jennifer Lawinski
Chinese APT Gelsemium Deploys 'Wolfsbane' Linux Variant
1 year 2 months ago
In a sign of the times, a backdoor malware whose ancestors date back to 2005 has morphed to target Linux systems.
Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer
Scattered Spider Cybercrime Members Face Prison Time
1 year 2 months ago
Four of the arrested individuals of the cybercriminal gang, known for hacking MGM and Caesars, are American, all of whom could face up to 27 years in prison for the charges against them.
Dark Reading Staff
How a Mental Health Nonprofit Secures Endpoints for Compassionate Care
1 year 2 months ago
Consolidating endpoint management boosts cybersecurity while keeping an Oklahoma-based nonprofit focused on community mental health.
Jennifer Lawinski
Cybersecurity Is Critical, but Breaches Don't Have to Be Disasters
1 year 2 months ago
The future of cybersecurity isn't about preventing every breach — it's about learning and growing stronger with each attack.
Akhil Mittal
How Can PR Protect Companies During a Cyberattack?
1 year 2 months ago
When a cybersecurity incident occurs, it's not just IT systems and data that are at risk — a company's reputation is on the line, too.
Edge Editors
It's Near-Unanimous: AI, ML Make the SOC Better
1 year 2 months ago
Efficiency is the name of the game for the security operations center — and 91% of cybersecurity pros say artificial intelligence and machine learning are winning that game.
Dark Reading Staff
China's 'Liminal Panda' APT Attacks Telcos, Steals Phone Data
1 year 2 months ago
In US Senate testimony, a CrowdStrike exec explained how this advanced persistent threat penetrated telcos in Asia and Africa, gathering SMS messages, unique identifiers, and other metadata along the way.
Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer
Alleged Ford 'Breach' Encompasses Auto Dealer Info
1 year 2 months ago
Cybersecurity investigators found the leaked data to be information from a third party, not Ford itself, that is already accessible to the public and not sensitive in nature.
Dark Reading Staff
Apple Urgently Patches Actively Exploited Zero-Days
1 year 2 months ago
Though information regarding the exploits is limited, the company did report that Intel-based Mac systems have been targeted by cybercriminals looking to exploit CVE-2024-44308 and CVE-2024-44309.
Dark Reading Staff
Small US Cyber Agencies Are Underfunded & That's a Problem
1 year 2 months ago
If the US wants to maintain its lead in cybersecurity, it needs to make the tough funding decisions that are demanded of it.
Michael Daniel
'Water Barghest' Sells Hijacked IoT Devices for Proxy Botnet Misuse
1 year 2 months ago
An elusive, sophisticated cybercriminal group has used known and zero-day vulnerabilities to compromise more than 20,000 SOHO routers and other IoT devices so far, and then puts them up for sale on a residential proxy marketplace for state-sponsored cyber-espionage actors and others to use.
Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer
African Reliance on Foreign Suppliers Boosts Insecurity Concerns
1 year 2 months ago
Recent backdoor implants and cyber-espionage attacks on their supply chains have African organizations looking to diversify beyond Chinese, American tech vendors.
Robert Lemos, Contributing Writer
RIIG Launches With Risk Intelligence Solutions
1 year 2 months ago
RIIG is a risk intelligence and cybersecurity solutions provider offering open source intelligence solutions designed for zero-trust environments.
Dark Reading Staff
SWEEPS Educational Initiative Offers Application Security Training
1 year 2 months ago
The secure coding curriculum, funded by a $2.5 million grant, is available for students and professionals at all stages of their careers.
Jennifer Lawinski
Linux Variant of Helldown Ransomware Targets VMware ESXi Systems
1 year 2 months ago
Since surfacing in August, the likely LockBit variant has claimed more than two dozen victims and appears poised to strike many more.
Jai Vijayan, Contributing Writer
Russian-Speaking Ransomware Gangs on the Hunt for Pen Testers
1 year 2 months ago
In further proof of the professionalization of Russian cybercriminal groups, ransomware gangs have been posting job ads for security positions such as pen testers, looking to boost their ransomware deployment operations.
Dark Reading Staff
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