Unsupervised machine learning is essential to mitigate the sophisticated cross-channel fraud techniques attackers are using to take advantage of the multiple silos and security gaps at financial institutions, says ThetaRay's James Heinzman
Apache has released an emergency fix for its Struts web application framework to patch a flaw that attackers can exploit to take full control of the application. Some incident response experts, based on the severity of breaches they've investigated, recommend dropping Struts altogether.
Microsegmentation is an effective way for defenders to limit the amount of access an attacker has inside a data center and stop lateral movement, says Stanley Hsu of Illumio.
Blockchain has potential for identity-based applications, but there are many aspects of identity and access management that a blockchain alone doesn't solve, says Ian Yip of McAfee.
Artificial intelligence can be used to create a model of an organization's infrastructure that can make detecting ransomware easier, says Alberto Pelliccione of ReaQta.
The quality and completeness of data is key to being able to perform meaningful analytics to detect malicious events, says Damien Smith of Australia's ANZ Bank.
Business intelligence technologies are increasingly being used with artificial intelligence to extract events that defenders need to know about, says Anurag Sanghai of Intellicus.
With less than three months to go until the U.S. midterm elections, Alex Stamos, until recently Facebook's CSO, says there isn't time to properly safeguard this year's elections. But here's what he says can be done in time for 2020.
Facebook, Twitter and Google have suspended or removed hundreds of pages and accounts tied to two separate alleged influence operations being run by Iran and Russia. Cybersecurity firm FireEye says the campaigns target the U.S., U.K., Latin America and Middle East.
Kaspersky Lab has discovered a new form of malware it calls Dark Tequila that has been targeting users in Mexico and stealing bank credentials and other personal and corporate data. The malware can move laterally through a computer while it's offline, says Dmitry Bestuzhev, a Kasperksy researcher.
U.K. health and beauty retailer Superdrug Stores is warning customers that attackers may have compromised some of their personal information, apparently because they'd reused their credentials on other sites that were hacked. While Superdrug quickly notified victims, it stumbled in three notable ways.
A lawsuit accuses Google of "the surreptitious location tracking of millions of mobile phone users." The legal action was sparked by a report demonstrating that some Google apps tracked and time-stamped users' locations even if a user deactivated the "location history" setting.
The growing use of multiple cloud services in enterprises is creating new security challenges, says Cisco's Harry Dogan, who shares common mistakes and fixes.
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