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CrowdStrike adds new cybersecurity protective tools – and Bionic.ai – to its Falcon lineup

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today announced new products extending its Falcon protection line and highlighted various threat research results from its annual Threat Hunting Report released last month. Also announced at the company’s annual Fal.con user group conference was the acquisition of Bionic.ai for …

California stays ahead on state privacy protection

POLICY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

California has become the latest state to enact a special law regulating how consumers can remove themselves from data brokers. The Delete Act was passed this week and it’s now up to Governor Gavin Newsom to sign it into law. But it …

Deepfake cyberthreats keep rising. Here’s how to prevent them

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

As expected, this summer has seen a rise in various cybersecurity threats based on deepfake audio and video impersonations. Despite warnings from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in June, it’s now quite common to experience these types of threats. The fakes are …

A network observability protocol standard gets a big boost

CLOUD By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

A networking protocol that has been under development for four years got a boost from both F5 Inc. and ServiceNow Inc. this week. Called OpenTelemetry — OTel or OTLP for short — the protocol has been endorsed by dozens of vendors and has …

Cloud-based security threats on the rise, according to new IBM X-Force data

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp.’s X-Force security consultancy annual 2023 Cloud Threat Landscape Report is out today, and it’s not a pretty picture. Based on several collections of threat intelligence data compiled from June 2022 to June 2023, the report reveals that 82% of data breaches …

Beware of insecure networked printers

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

Despite promises of a paperless office that have origins in the 1970s, the printer is still very much a security problem in the modern office. And even if Microsoft Corp. will succeed in its efforts to eradicate the universe of third-party printer …

It’s the end of the line for outdated internet encryption protocols

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

An aging core internet protocol is finally getting the ax by Microsoft Corp. But it wasn’t just last month’s announcement that the software vendor was ending support for versions 1.0 and 1.1 of Transport Layer Security, or TLS, but that it was …

New charges filed against Trickbot ransomware gang

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

The malware gang behind the Trickbot ransomware exploits, also known as Conti, faces a new series of charges by both the U.S. and the U.K. governments. The charges, filed yesterday, reveal the actual identities of the criminals, who will probably never see a courtroom, let alone …

Software supply chain attacks are multiplying, but so are strategies to avoid them

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

By now most information technology managers are painfully aware of the consequences of software supply chain attacks. Thanks to exploits affecting the supply chains of SolarWinds, Log4Shell and 3CX, the power and widespread damage inflicted by these attacks on thousands of businesses …

Well-known security consultant ‘Mudge’ is once again on the move

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

The former hacker known as Mudge is once again on the move. Mudge, the alias for Peiter Zatko (pictured, center), was the former head of security back when X Corp. was known as Twitter. He is now a consultant for the U.S. …

David Strom

Latest from David Strom

CrowdStrike adds new cybersecurity protective tools – and Bionic.ai – to its Falcon lineup

California stays ahead on state privacy protection

Deepfake cyberthreats keep rising. Here’s how to prevent them

Beware of insecure networked printers

It’s the end of the line for outdated internet encryption protocols

New charges filed against Trickbot ransomware gang

Software supply chain attacks are multiplying, but so are strategies to avoid them

Well-known security consultant ‘Mudge’ is once again on the move

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