Image: Jim Reardan In attempts to put pressure on victims, some ransomware gangs are now cold-calling victims on their phones if they suspect that a hacked company might try to restore from backups an

In just the last two months, the cybercriminal-controlled botnet known as TrickBot has become, by some measures, public enemy number one for the cybersecurity community. It's survived takedown attempt

Enlarge / Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan speaks before the Nasdaq opening bell ceremony on April 18, 2019, in New York City as the company announced its IPO. Getty Images | Kena Betancur Zoom has agre

Getty Images / WIRED On the night of September 11, paramedics in Düsseldorf, Germany, were alerted to the deteriorating condition of a 78-year-old woman suffering from an aortic aneurysm . What began

I think there are four main trends that will play out in the field of information security in the next 20 years. (2021-2030) A Surge in Demand for InfoSec people will result in many more professionals

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has sent out a security alert warning that threat actors are abusing misconfigured SonarQube applications to access and steal source code repositories from US gover

Is it a lemon? In cybersecurity, nobody knows. getty Economic theory says that capitalists will always sell products that do their stated job well because if they don’t, eventually they’ll have no cus

How Ransomware Puts Your Hospital at Risk In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, the potential consequences of cyberattacks are terrifying. Oct. 17, 2020 Credit... Chris Gash By Dr. Wolff is an assist

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As businesses are increasingly migrating to the cloud, securing the infrastructure has never been more important. Now according to the latest research, two security flaws in Microsoft's Azure App Serv

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Last week, we launched code scanning for all open source and enterprise developers , and we promised we’d share more on our extensibility capabilities and the GitHub security ecosystem. Today, we’re h

Ninety-nine percent of enterprise codebases contain open source components, according to a recent study . But amid that overwhelming adoption, a hazard has emerged: Organizations have lost visibility

If you’ve read Maya’s post on DevSecOps, shifting left, and GitOps you might be wondering “how do I implement these security principles in practice?” Let’s dive deeper with a practical example: integr

The Joint Operations Center inside Fort Meade in Maryland is a cathedral to cyber warfare. Part of a 380,000-square-foot, $520 million complex opened in 2018, the office is the nerve center for both t

SAN FRANCISCO, August 27, 2020 – Fastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY), provider of an edge cloud platform, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Signal Sciences (“Signal Scie

“We created DarkSide because we didn’t find the perfect product for us,” reads the launch announcement. “Now we have it.” It’s a line that could come out of any number of VC-friendly pitch decks, but

Image: CDC Most of the time, fighting malware is a losing game. Malware authors create their code, distribute payloads to victims via various methods, and by the time security firms catch up, attacker

North Korean Hacking Group Attacks Israeli Defense Industry Israel says the attack was thwarted, but a cybersecurity firm says it was successful. Some officials fear that classified data stolen by Nor

The unsolicited call came from France. Or at least that's what my phone said. When I picked up, a man asked if I worked with the National Crime Agency, the UK's version of the FBI. When I explained, n

Illustration by Alex Castro Early on July 31st, the FBI, IRS, US Secret Service, and Florida law enforcement placed 17-year-old Graham Clark of Tampa, Florida, under arrest. He’s accused of being the

We all play a role in securing the world’s code. No one company can solve things alone, including GitHub, which is why it is critical to combine the energies of teams, companies, and individuals that

Hackers Tell the Story of the Twitter Attack From the Inside Several people involved in the events that took down Twitter this week spoke with The Times, giving the first account of what happened as a

World Officials say adversaries tried to steal intellectual property from governments, universities, private companies and others in several countries By Jenny Strasburg in London and Dustin Volz in W

Researchers reported on Monday that hackers are now exploiting Google's Analytics service to stealthily pilfer credit card information from infected e-commerce sites. According to several independent

When a judge ruled last month that Capital One must provide outsiders with a third-party incident response report detailing the circumstances around the bank’s massive data breach, the cybersecurity w

Late last year, David Haynes, a security engineer at the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare , found himself gazing at a strange image. “It was pure gibberish,” he says. “A whole bunch of gray

At around 7 am on a quiet Wednesday in August 2017, Marcus Hutchins walked out the front door of the Airbnb mansion in Las Vegas where he had been partying for the past week and a half. A gangly, 6'4"

SAN FRANCISCO – Cybercriminals are pushing boundaries in looking for new ways to cash in on the healthcare space – whether it is persuading desperate patients to download health information apps that

Members of the US government held a conference in Washington this week on the topic of Chinese theft of intellectual property from US technology firms and the US academic sector. Officials said the pu

Image: Bundo Kim techrepublic cheat sheet How to become a developer: Salaries, skills, and the best languages to learn At the WWDC conference last year, Apple announced plans to deprecate macOS " kern

By now there have been a few articles about security researchers that have crossed the million dollar threshold for rewards obtained in ‘bug bounties’ over the years. Before you give up your day-job,

Cybersecurity stress is an industrywide epidemic among security professionals. Burnout is a hard conversation, but it’s necessary for CISOs to face workplace stress before it compromises productivity,

This story was reported in partnership with health news site The Mighty. Every day, millions of new medical images containing the personal health information of patients are spilling out onto the inte

‘Chaos Is the Point’: Russian Hackers and Trolls Grow Stealthier in 2020 While American election defenses have improved since 2016, many of the vulnerabilities exploited four years ago remain. Credit.

Research by: Vitali Kremez , Joshua Platt and Jason Reaves The Wind of Time Shakes the Underground | High-Tech Cybercrime & APT | Most Sophisticated & Resourceful Crimeware Group When we talk about cy

I was just thinking about the biggest breaches we’ve had in history, from companies like Adobe, LinkedIn, Equifax, Marriott, Target, etc., and wondering how badly they’ve been affected long-term. Stoc

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The aircraft maker failed to perform minimum due diligence in securing its networks, then tried to cover it up, security researcher Chris Kubecka tells Aviation Cyber Security conference attendees. Cr