The day's top cybersecurity news and in-depth coverage
December 13, 2021
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Encryption is a focal point of modern security architecture: Encrypting sensitive information both at rest and in transit provides a litany of benefits to security-conscious organizations by greatly increasing the difficulty of obtaining access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability affects not only Java-based applications and services that use the library directly, but also many other popular Java components and development frameworks that rely on it.
VMware's Carbon Black Cloud Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is designed to help company security operations centers (SOCs) gain efficiency with improved threat advisory and containment.
Attackers are still exploiting unaddressed vulnerabilities in an estimated 300,000 MikroTik routers. A new tool will detect compromised devices.
McAfee is integrating FireEye Helix with AWS' Inspector cloud security tool, to allow companies to more easily apply behavior analysis and machine learning techniques to risk detection for cloud workload data.
The botnet take-down is believed to be temporary as the criminal group has a backup command-and-control mechanism based on Bitcoin blockchain.
The cybersecurity market is hot, and vendors are buying competitors to solidify their position or acquiring other firms to expand their offerings.
