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Israel’s cyber ecosystem starts with conscripts in specialist military units. Picture Israel Defense Force Israels cybersecurity sector continues to thrive, with investments pouring in and exports increasing, according to the Israel National Cyber Directorate, the government agency responsible for advancing the county’s cyber capabilities and ensuring national cyber defense. The directorate reports that pre-IPO investments in domestic cybersecurity firms totaled $2.9 billion in 2020, up 70...

GovInfoSecurity Compliance SecurityEditor) • February 11, 2021     Smriti Kawal Jaggi, Product Manager, F5 E-commerce and fraud – they evolved and grew together in 2020, and it’s time for fraud defenses to do the same. Smriti Jaggi of F5 details how to deploy a multi-layered fraud defense without adding extra friction to the process. In this video interview with ISMG, Jaggi discusses: Today’s predominant forms...

Arrest Made On Wednesday, the Justice Department announced the indictment of Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins, a Canadian national who is suspected of working as a NetWalker affiliate and helping to conduct a ransomware attack against a victim in Florida. Vachon-Desjardins is alleged to have made $27.6 million from infecting victims with the NetWalker ransomware. Vachon-Desjardins has been charged with intentional damage to a protected computer, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in federa...

GovInfoSecurity March 25, 2021 annamadeline) • January 28, 2021     Adam Shostack, president, Shostack & Associates Does your organization have a plan in place if one of your employees is accused via Twitter of being an insurrectionist? If your software was being used to spread plans for a riot, could you detect that? Threat modeling expert Adam Shostack discusses how companies should be prepared to respond to issu...

Information Security Media Group (ISMG) is the worlds largest media company devoted to information security and risk management. Each of its 28 media sites provides relevant education, research and news that is specifically tailored to key vertical sectors including banking, healthcare and the public sector; geographies from North America to Southeast Asia; and topics such as data breach prevention, cyber risk assessment and fraud. Its yearly global summit series connects senior security profes...

Get Permission Threat actors are exploiting vulnerable Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol servers to amplify various distributed denial-of-service attacks, according to a report from application and network performance firm Netscout. Netscout researchers have identified about 33,000 vulnerable Microsoft RDP servers that could be abused by threat actors to boost their DDoS attacks. RDP is a proprietary Microsoft communications protocol that system administrators and employees use to remotely con...

InfoRiskToday May 5, 2021 Compliance euroinfosec) • January 15, 2021     Capitol riot suspect Aaron Mostofsky (Source: New York Post, as cited in criminal complaint) Many of the insurrectionists who marched on the Capitol on Jan. 6 and violently forced their way into the building livestreamed their activities or boasted about them via social media. So far, those self-identifying actions have helped law enforcement au...

BankInfoSecurity May 5, 2021 DougOlenick) • January 14, 2021     Get Permission The Conti "news" website where the ransomware gang posts exfiltrated data in an attempt to extort victims to pay a ransom (Source: Cybereason) Conti ransomware, which emerged eight months ago, poses a severe threat, according to Cybereason’s Nocturnus Team, which offers an in-depth analysis of how the malware works. The malware is know...

GovInfoSecurity Compliance gsuparna) • January 11, 2021     Adam Turteltaub, chief engagement and strategy officer at the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics Adam Turteltaub, chief engagement and strategy officer at the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, says compliance teams should create a dashboard of data that will help keep track of actions taken by staff members who are working remotely. “...

Although two earlier executive orders from President Donald Trump banning the use of the Chinese-made apps TikTok and WeChat are still hung up in the courts, the president has issued a new executive order banning eight other Chinese apps, citing threats they pose to national security, economy and foreign policy. The new executive order, however, will not take effect until February, which will likely allow President-elect Joe Biden to decide how - or if - it is enforced. Trumps order announced T...