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China’s Cybersecurity Law Seeks Scrutiny Of Technology
Country’s top internet regulator releases framework for stricter cyberspace laws, including review of local and foreign technology.
Year 2016 Sees Record Deployment Of HTTPS By Firefox, Chrome
More than half of Web pages loaded by the browsers guarantee protection to visitors.
Greatest Hits Of 2016: Readers' Picks For The Years' Best Commentary
Here’s what topped the Dark Reading page-view charts from the security industry’s brightest minds, coolest rock stars, and up-and-coming leaders.
20 Questions Security Pros Should Ask Themselves Before Moving To The Cloud
A template for working collaboratively with the business in today’s rapidly changing technology environment.
5 Ways The Cyber-Threat Landscape Shifted In 2016
IoT botnets and turnkey phishing services were just some of the ways the bad guys stayed ahead in 2016
Ashley Madison To Pay $17.5 Million In Breach Settlement
Ashley Madison was found guilty of lax data security and also corrupt practices including photo and profile misuse.
California Grad Student Arrested In International DDoS Crackdown
Sean Sharma is charged with carrying out distributed denial-of-service attacks against a San Francisco chat website.
Dailymotion Advises Password Change After Possible Data Breach
Breach not yet confirmed, but LeakedSource says it has compromised IDs of over 87 million Dailymotion users, protected by bcrypt.
Hacker Of Celeb Emails Goes To Jail For Five Years
Bahamian Alonzo Knowles was sentenced for illegal access of 130 celebrity email accounts and selling their personal information.
Cybersecurity Readiness Confidence Declined In 2016
New report querying security pros shows increase in worry about risks with mobile and cloud environments.
Avalanche Botnet Comes Tumbling Down In Largest-Ever Sinkholing Operation
800,000 domains seized, sinkholed, or blocked, and five individuals arrested, in international effort to bring down botnet linked to 17 major malware families.
Holiday Weekend Online Payment Card Fraud 20% Higher In 2016
In the face of EMV chips, criminals turned online to commit card-not-present fraud this Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
20 Questions Smart Security Pros Should Ask About 'Intelligence'
Threat intel is a hot but complicated topic that encompasses a lot more than just data feeds. Here's how to get beyond the fear, uncertainty, and doubt to maximize its potential.
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The 10 Most Impactful Types of Vulnerabilities for Enterprises TodayManaging system vulnerabilities is one of the old est - and most frustrating - security challenges that enterprise defenders face. Every software application and hardware device ships with intrinsic flaws - flaws that, if critical enough, attackers can exploit from anywhere in the world. It's crucial that defenders take stock of what areas of the tech stack have the most emerging, and critical, vulnerabilities they must manage. It's not just zero day vulnerabilities. Consider that CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog lists vulnerabilitlies in widely used applications that are "actively exploited," and most of them are flaws that were discovered several years ago and have been fixed. There are also emerging vulnerabilities in 5G networks, cloud infrastructure, Edge applications, and firmwares to consider.
Incident Readiness and Building Response Playbook
In this special report, learn the Xs and Os of any good security incident readiness and response playbook.
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