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SOC Teams: Threat Detection Tools Are Stifling Us

Oct 11, 2024

Retail CISOs Take on More Risk to Foster Innovation

Oct 11, 2024

The Invisible Army of Non-Human Identities

Oct 11, 2024

Walking the Tightrope Between Innovation & Risk

Oct 10, 2024

Internet Archive Slowly Revives After DDoS Barrage

Days after facing a major breach, the site is still struggling to get fully back on its feet.

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Threat Intelligence

Anonymous Sudan Unmasked as Leaders Face Life in Prison

Oct 17, 2024

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Cyberattacks & Data Breaches

Iran's APT34 Abuses MS Exchange to Spy on Gulf Gov'ts

Oct 17, 2024

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Dark Reading Confidential: Pen-Test Arrests, 5 Years Later

Episode 3: On Sept. 11, 2019, two cybersecurity professionals, Gary De Mercurio and Justin Wynn, were arrested in Dallas County, Iowa, and forced to spend the night in jail — just for doing their jobs. Despite the criminal charges against them eventually being dropped, the saga that night five years ago continues to haunt De Mercurio and Wynn personally and professionally. In this episode, the pair and Coalfire CEO Tom McAndrew share how the arrest and fallout has shaped their lives and careers as well as how it has transformed physical penetration tests for the cybersecurity industry as a whole.

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Cyberattacks & Data Breaches

Hong Kong Crime Ring Swindles Victims Out of $46M

byDark Reading Staff

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Cyberattacks & Data Breaches

Internet Archive Slowly Revives After DDoS Barrage

byKristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading

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Threat Intelligence

Anonymous Sudan Unmasked as Leaders Face Life in Prison

byNate Nelson, Contributing Writer

The UAE and Iranian flags, broken and crumbling

Cyberattacks & Data Breaches

Iran's APT34 Abuses MS Exchange to Spy on Gulf Gov'ts

byNate Nelson, Contributing Writer

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Application Security

Chinese Researchers Tap Quantum to Break Encryption

byJai Vijayan, Contributing Writer

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Endpoint Security

Bad Actors Manipulate Red-Team Tools to Evade Detection

byDark Reading Staff

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Vulnerabilities & Threats

Hybrid Work Exposes New Vulnerabilities in Print Security

byJai Vijayan, Contributing Writer

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Cyberattacks & Data Breaches

Sidewinder Casts Wide Geographic Net in Latest Attack Spree

byElizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer

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Cyber Risk

North Korea Hackers Get Cash Fast in Linux Cyber Heists

byDark Reading Staff

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Data Privacy

FHE Consortium Pushes for Quantum-Resilient Cryptography Standards

byJennifer Lawinski, Contributing Writer

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Dan McInerney

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4 Ways to Address Zero-Days in AI/ML Security

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Arlo Gilbert

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Is a CPO Still a CPO? The Evolving Role of Privacy Leadership

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Jeff Shiner

CEO, 1Password

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What Cybersecurity Leaders Can Learn From the Game of Golf

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Shaked Reiner

Principal Security Researcher, CyberArk Labs

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LLMs Are a New Type of Insider Adversary

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Alex Simons

Corporate VP, Product Management, Microsoft Identity and Network Access

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Why Your Identity Is the Key to Modernizing Cybersecurity

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Vaibhav Malik

Partner Solutions Architect

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The Invisible Army of Non-Human Identities

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Startup Spotlight: RAD Security Brings Behavioral Profiling to Cloud

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Cyber Gangs Aren't Afraid of Prosecution

Challenges with cybercrime prosecution are making it easier for attackers to act with impunity. Law enforcement needs to catch up.

Even Orgs With SSO Are Vulnerable to Identity-Based Attacks

Use SSO, don't use SSO. Have MFA, don't have MFA. An analysis of a snapshot of organizations using Push Security's platform finds that 99% of accounts are susceptible to phishing attacks.

CISOs' Privacy Responsibilities Keep Growing

A heated regulatory landscape, uncertainty over AI use, and how it all ties back to cybersecurity means CISOs have to add privacy to their portfolios.

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FHE Consortium Pushes for Quantum-Resilient Cryptography Standards

The FHE Technical Consortium for Hardware (FHETCH) brings together developers, hardware manufacturers, and cloud providers to collaborate on technical standards necessary to develop commercial fully homomorphic encryption solutions and lower adoption barriers.

Fighting Crime With Technology: Safety First

By combining human and nonhuman identity management in one solution, Flock Safety is helping law enforcement solve an impressive number of criminal cases every day.

AI Hype Drives Demand For ML SecOps Skills

Companies are putting "AI" in just about all of their products, which opens up new security holes. LLM SecOps and ML SecOps are becoming must-have skills.

Hong Kong Crime Ring Swindles Victims Out of $46M

The scammers used real-time deepfakes in online dating video calls to convince the victims of their legitimacy.

Iran's APT34 Abuses MS Exchange to Spy on Gulf Gov'ts

A MOIS-aligned threat group has been using Microsoft Exchange servers to exfiltrate sensitive data from Gulf-state government agencies.

Southeast Asian Cybercrime Profits Fuel Shadow Economy

With cybercriminal gangs raking in at least $18 billion regionally — and much more globally — law enforcement and policymakers are struggling to keep up as the syndicates innovate and entrench themselves in national economies.