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FireEye, Mandiant to Split in $1.2 Billion Deal
FireEye is selling its core cybersecurity products to a group led by private equity firm Symphony Technology Group (STG) in order to focus on its Mandiant threat response and services…
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PowerShell Is Source of More Than a Third of Critical Security Threats
PowerShell was the source of more than a third of critical threats detected on endpoints in the second half of 2020, according to a Cisco research study released at the…
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How Zero Trust Security Can Protect Against Ransomware
The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack has been by many measures the worst to date in the history of cybersecurity, nearly crippling the Southeastern U.S. and causing the pipeline company untold…
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MITRE Protection Tests Shed New Light on Endpoint Security
MITRE added a new wrinkle to its latest endpoint detection and response (EDR) evaluations, a test of endpoint security products’ ability to stop an adversarial attack. Previous MITRE evaluations and…
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U.S. Issues Ransomware Guidance, Cybersecurity Executive Order
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) and the FBI have issued guidance for protecting critical infrastructure from ransomware, shedding some light on the DarkSide attack that crippled the Colonial…
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Latest MITRE EDR Evaluations Contain Some Surprises
MITRE Engenuity last month released the latest MITRE ATT&CK evaluations of endpoint security products, and the results contain some pretty big surprises. MITRE doesn’t analyze or comment on the evaluations…
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Cybersecurity Outlook 2021: Trends and Predictions
Just when it seemed that 2020 couldn’t get any weirder, news broke that Russian state-sponsored hackers had spent much of the year exploiting vulnerabilities in SolarWinds‘ widely used Orion IT…
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Check Point vs Palo Alto: Compare Top EDR Solutions
This is one of those articles that’s fun to write because there is virtually no downside to these two endpoint detection and response (EDR) products. Check Point Software and Palo…
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Apple White Hat Hack Shows Value of Pen Testers
The best Cybersecurity Awareness Month lesson may have come from Apple, which could ultimately pay bug bounties of around $500,000 to a group of white hat hackers who…
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Employees and Data Backup Top Cybersecurity Awareness Month Concerns
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and as people are the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain, it’s only fitting that this year’s theme is “Do your part:…
