Dark Reading Daily -- November 17, 2017

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November 17, 2017

LATEST SECURITY NEWS & COMMENTARY

121 Pieces of Malware Flagged on NSA Employee's Home Computer

Kaspersky Lab's internal investigation found a backdoor Trojan and other malware on the personal computer of the NSA employee who took home agency hacking tools.

Crooks Turn to Delivering Ransomware via RDP

In a new twist to an old attack, threats actors are increasingly using the remote access protocol to install ransomware, Sophos says

Terdot Banking Trojan Spies on Email, Social Media

Terdot Banking Trojan, inspired by Zeus, can eavesdrop and modify traffic on social media and email in addition to snatching data.

Forget APTs: Let's Talk about Advanced Persistent Infrastructure

Understanding how bad guys reuse infrastructure will show you the areas of your network to target when investigating new threats and reiteration of old malware.

Optiv Acquires Decision Lab to Expand Big Data Services

Deal enhances Optiv's big data, automation, and orchestration efforts.

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HOT TOPICS
Emerging IT Security Technologies: 13 Categories, 26 Vendors A rundown of some of the hottest security product areas, and vendors helping to shape them. Death of the Tier 1 SOC Analyst Say goodbye to the entry-level security operations center (SOC) analyst as we know it. New Locky Ransomware Takes Another Turn A newly discovered strain of Locky ransomware has been discovered masquerading as legitimate Microsoft Word documents. MORE

EDITORS' CHOICE

Insider Threats: Red Flags and Best Practices

Security pros list red flags indicating an insider attack and best practices to protect against accidental and malicious exposure.

Who Am I? Best Practices for Next-Gen Authentication

By their very nature, antiquated, static identifiers like Social Security numbers and dates of birth are worse than passwords.

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Cloud Security: Don't Go Blind While Playing in the Cloud
Attend this webinar to understand the security transformation from an on-prem fortress mentality to federated cloud services functioning outside your traditional zone of control.
Open Source Security for Containers in a DevOps World
Managing container infrastructure in a production environment is challenged by problems of scale. One of the biggest problems is trust--specifically trust of the application. To put it another way, can you trust that all containers in your Kubernetes or OpenShift ...

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Partner Perspectives

'Reaper': The Professional Bot Herder's Thingbot

Is it malicious? So far it's hard to tell. For now it's a giant blinking red light in security researchers faces warning us that we'd better figure out how to secure the Internet of Things.

'Goldilocks' Legislation Aims to Clean up IoT Security

The proposed Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2017 is not too hard, not too soft, and might be just right.

5 Reasons CISOs Should Keep an Open Mind about Cryptocurrency

With untold new markets for Bitcoin and other 'alt-coins,' it's going to be an exciting future -- and security leaders need to get ready for it.

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2017 State of IT Report
In today's technology-driven world, "innovation" has become a basic expectation. IT leaders are tasked with making technical magic, improving customer experience, and boosting the bottom line -- yet often without any increase to the IT budget. How are organizations striking ...
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