Serious Security: Vital cybersecurity lessons from the holiday season

Lessons for us all: improve cryptography, fight cybercrime, own your supply chain… and don’t steal my data and then pretend you’re sorry.
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Lessons for us all: improve cryptography, fight cybercrime, own your supply chain… and don’t steal my data and then pretend you’re sorry.
The bad news: the crooks have your SSH private keys. The good news: only users of the “nightly” build were affected.
Hacking on actual computers is one thing, but hacking purposefully on imaginary computers is, these days, something we can only imagine.
The crooks have shown that they’re willing to learn and adapt their attacks, so we need to make sure we learn and adapt, too.
Insider threats are redefined in 2021, the work-from-home trend will continue define the threat landscape and mobile endpoints become the attack vector of choice, according 2021 forecasts. After shrinking in 2020, cybersecurity budgets in 2021 climb higher than pre-pandemic limits. Authentication, cloud data protection and application monitoring will top the . . . Read more
Plixer’s Justin Jett, Compliance & Audit director, discusses how to do more with less when your security resources are thin. With the number of COVID-19 cases increasing, another round of attacks is looming over schools and universities as they move into holiday break and prepare for the spring semester. According . . . Read more
Researchers show the promise of Federated Learning to protect patient privacy and improve healthcare outcomes across the world. For researchers and physicians the mountains of data hospitals and healthcare systems hold could be a goldmine for artificial intelligence and machine learning, but data privacy concerns and regulations have kept scientists . . . Read more
Here’s the latest Sophos Threat Report – learn what cybercriminals are up to on Windows, Linux, Android and more
Automation, strategic process design and an investment in training are the keys to managing the cybersecurity skills gap, according to a recent survey from Trustwave. More than half of cybersecurity professionals in a recent survey — 57 percent — reported that the cybersecurity skills shortage is either “bad” or “very . . . Read more
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