| LATEST SECURITY NEWS & COMMENTARY | Treasury Dept. Advisory Shines Spotlight on Ransomware Negotiators With attacks showing no signs of abating, some companies have begun offering services to help reduce ransom demands, buy more time, and arrange payments. 25% of BEC Cybercriminals Based in the US While the US is known to be a prime target for BEC attacks, just how many perpetrators are based there came as a surprise to researchers. Microsoft Fixes Critical Windows TCP/IP Flaw in Patch Rollout The October 2020 Patch Tuesday fixed 87 vulnerabilities, including 21 remote code execution flaws, in Microsoft products and services. Online Voting Is Coming, but How Secure Will It Be? It's time for state governments to act as leaders, adopt digital ID standards, enable new online voting systems, and provide broad-based access to all communities for the benefit of all. Trickbot Botnet Response Highlights Partnerships Preventing US Election Interference Recent efforts by USCYBERCOM and Microsoft to disrupt the Trickbot botnet highlight the importance of partnerships in successful malware botnet disruption. Where are the 'Great Exits' in the Data Security Market? If data security were a student, its report card would read "Not performing to potential." Here's why. Coalition Pokes Five Eyes on Call for Backdoors The Five Eyes international law enforcement group had called for implementing backdoors for law enforcement in all encryption implementations. MORE NEWS & COMMENTARY | |
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