The Retail Loss Prevention and Security Association will be hosting its THINK Tank II summit virtually on October 22. The association also launched a new website that coincides with the summit.
YEG Disaster Dash aims to raise money to support Black and Indigenous students in their first year of Northern Alberta Institute of Technology's disaster and emergency management program. The 5K is scheduled to be a virtual event on October 15, 2020.
BlackBerry released new research highlighting the true reach and sophistication of one of the most elusive, patient, and effective publicly known threat actors – BAHAMUT. In the report, BlackBerry researchers link the cyberespionage threat group to a staggering number of ongoing attacks against government officials and industry titans, while also unveiling the group’s vast network of disinformation assets aimed at furthering particular political causes and hampering NGOs.
Microsoft recently warned that more cybercriminals have started to incorporate exploit code for the ZeroLogon vulnerability in their attacks.
Threat actor TA505, a financially motivated threat group that has been active since at least 2014, is now exploiting this vulnerability.
In the event of a critical situation or emerging risk, for example, a terrorist incident or a local COVID-19 outbreak, rapidly delivering crucial information to the right audience is imperative. Here we explore a few mass notification solutions available that can help communicate and collaborate during global and critical events and emergencies.
The National Security Agency announced the official launch of the Center for Cybersecurity Standards (CCSS) in the Cybersecurity Directorate. This office will lead NSA’s Cybersecurity mission to engage with standards bodies to communicate security requirements and influence standards to secure our National Security Systems and provide support to the Defense Industrial Base (DIB).
McAfee and the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) released a new research study, MITRE ATT&CK as a Framework for Cloud Threat Investigation, developed by CLTC researchers. The report focuses on threat investigation in the cloud through the lens of the most widely adopted framework, MITRE ATT&CK.
SEC emeritus faculty George Campbell has been recognized with the 2020 U.S. Outstanding Security Performance Award (OSPA) for Lifetime Achievement. The winners were announced September 25.
The security office head, Crede Bailey, who is in charge of the White House security office contracted coronavirus last month and has been hospitalized since September.
Security professionals want functionality like data encryption and VPN to be permanently enabled. Some have taken the approach of completely disabling the insertion of USB devices. This needs to be supported with more fine-grained control. What is the path forward?
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