Risk is a condition that pre-exists an incident. If you reduce security risk, you will reduce security incidents. Epiphany is a new risk detection and quantification platform that highlights, qualifies and quantifies the risks that occur within the technical structure and users of a network, giving the security team the opportunity to eliminate the risk before an incident.
Read more: DigitalWare Launches Risk Detection and Quantification Platform
Google has stepped up its effort against websites that have a history of sending abusive notification content, by blocking notification permission requests in Chrome 86.
Read more: Chrome 86 Starts Blocking Abusive Notification Permission Requests
The United States says Russian state-sponsored hacking group Energetic Bear has successfully compromised state, local, territorial, and tribal (SLTT) government networks and stole data from at least two servers.
Read more: U.S. Says Russian Hackers Stole Data From Two Government Servers
A database with information on virtually the entire US voting population has been circulated on hacker forums, opening up the potential for disinformation and scams that could impact the November 3 election, security researchers say.
Read more: U.S. Voter Data Traded on Hacker Forums: Researchers
The Iran-linked cyber-espionage group known as Seedworm appears to have added a new downloader to its arsenal and to have started conducting destructive attacks, security researchers report.
Read more: Destructive Malware Spotted in Recent Attacks Launched by Iranian Cyberspies
The European Union on Thursday imposed sanctions on two Russian officials and part of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency over a against the German parliament in 2015.
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Read more: EU Slaps Sanctions on 2 Russians Over Germany Cyberattack
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week announced that it has approved the use of a new rubric specifically designed by the MITRE Corporation for assigning CVSS scores to vulnerabilities found in medical devices.
Read more: FDA Approves Use of New Tool for Medical Device Vulnerability Scoring
