David Strom

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New research highlights difficulty of preventing Outlook security exploits

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

Haifei Li, a principal vulnerability researcher at Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., examines the universe of Microsoft Outlook exploits in a new blog post this week that has lessons for users and security managers alike. Li divides this collection into three parts: embedded …

One person’s quest to fix Ukraine’s electric power grid

IOT By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

A post this week on Cisco Talos’ blog literally shows the power of one person’s grit and determination. Joe Marshall, a cyberthreat researcher at Cisco Systems Inc.’s threat intelligence research team, was seeing what was happening in Ukraine, where Russian attacks on …

New Citrix Bleed ransomware threat hits many credit unions

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

Ransomware groups are leveraging new attacks using the Citrix Bleed vulnerability. Late last week saw more than 60 credit unions’ operations disrupted, thanks to a common technology services provider’s unpatched Netscaler servers. Representatives from the National Credit Union Administration confirmed the outage …

Wiz acquires Raftt to increase its cloud security capabilities

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

Security firm Wiz Inc. announced today its first corporate acquisition, a fellow Israeli cybersecurity firm Raftt. Raftt has been operating for three years and had raised $5 million from a variety of private and public venture capital firms, including Adi Sharabani, founder …

New iOS and iPad zero-day vulnerabilities spur yet another update

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

Apple announced Thursday that owners of its mobile devices will require yet another operating system update. The latest versions are iOS and iPadOS version 17.1.2. Owners of at least iPhone XS and various iPads going back to first and second generations – …

Sporting-related businesses suffer from immature cybersecurity practice, according to a new report

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

The business of sports, from the teams to the fans and regulators, is one of the last bastions of poor cybersecurity hygiene, according to a report released today by NCC Group. Entitled “The Hidden Opponent: Cyber Threats in Sport,” it describes a series …

Proton adds new Sentinel protective feature to its password manager

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

Proton AG, the Swiss security firm notable for its end-to-end encrypted email offering, today announced an enhancement to its Pass password manager software called Sentinel. The feature prevents attackers from getting access to users’ data even if they have stolen Proton account …

Amazon expands its palm-reading One services for enterprise identity management

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

Amazon Web Services Inc. Monday announced an expansion of its palm-reading technology called One for enterprise identity management purposes. The service, announced at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, is now available for preview in the U.S. only. The enterprise version is …

Cross-government cybersecurity best practices announced for safer AI development

AI By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

The U.K.’s National Cyber Security Center along with several dozen governments’ cyber agencies and AI vendors yesterday jointly released their Guidelines for Secure AI System Development. The guidelines are broken down into four key areas within the AI system development lifecycle: secure design, …

Cloud security continues to give IT managers headaches. Here’s why

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

Cloud security continues to vex corporate information technology managers, and new research indicates that the problems are both widespread and not easily fixable, thanks to a number of weak areas. In many cases, the procedures to secure cloud workloads has been well-known …

David Strom

Latest from David Strom

New research highlights difficulty of preventing Outlook security exploits

One person’s quest to fix Ukraine’s electric power grid

New Citrix Bleed ransomware threat hits many credit unions

New iOS and iPad zero-day vulnerabilities spur yet another update

Sporting-related businesses suffer from immature cybersecurity practice, according to a new report

Proton adds new Sentinel protective feature to its password manager

Cross-government cybersecurity best practices announced for safer AI development

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