Tech Digest December 2018
| Dear John, Dark Reading takes a look at the biggest news stories (so far) of 2018 that shaped the cybersecurity landscape — from devastating hardware vulnerabilities to hacked plant-floor safety instrumentation systems, a more lethal form of DDoS attacks, Olympic “false flags,” hijacked home routers, fileless malware — and a new world’s record for data breaches. This Dark Reading Tech Digest explores the biggest news stories of 2018 that shaped the cybersecurity landscape. When you download this Digest you will read the following: Meltdown, Spectre Likely Just Scratch the Surface of Microprocessor Vulnerabilities: There’s a lot at stake when it comes to patching the hardware flaws. Fileless Attacks Jump 94% in First Half of 2018: While ransomware is still popular, fileless and PowerShell attacks are the threats to watch this year. Memcached Servers Being Exploited in Huge DDoS Attacks: Multiple vendors say they have seen a recent spike in UDP attacks coming in via port 11211. Hacker Unlocks ‘God Mode’ and Shares the ‘Key’: Researcher Christopher Domas showed how he found backdoors that may exist in many different CPUs. 2018 on Track to Be One of the Worst Ever for Data Breaches: A total of 3,676 breaches involving over 3.6 billion records were reported in the first nine months of this year alone. And much more Access to this Tech Digest is free when you register for the Dark Reading community. Just register by clicking on the link below. There's no cost, and it takes only a few minutes. Dark Reading community members: Click on the link below and login to read it today. We hope you enjoy Dark Reading's Tech Digest on cybersecurity breaches. Thank you, Tim Wilson
Editor, Dark Reading |
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