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Tweets used by attackers to demonstrate previous "exploits" they'd discovered (Source: Google) North Korean hackers have been "targeting security researchers working on vulnerability research and development at different companies and organizations" to trick them into installing backdoored software, warns Google's Threat Analysis Group. The group's Monday blog post describes what it says is a monthslong attack campaign that has already notched up multiple victims. The campaign traces to "a government-backed entity based in North Korea," which has used a variety of techniques to trick research...

Jim Clark, chairman and co-founder, Beyond Identity When he co-founded the firm Beyond Identity in 2020, serial entrepreneur Jim Clark said he felt somewhat responsible for the proliferation of passwords. Now he and partner Tom Jermoluk are doing something about it. They are providing access to their passwordless technology for free. The giveaway is part of a new marketing campaign. Starting Jan. 26, Beyond Identity says, it will provide access to its passwordless identity platform free of charge to “any company that wants to offer its employees or customers a completely frictionless and f...

An email with the attached Google Form, (Source: Proofpoint) Fraudsters are using Google Forms to target retail, telecom, healthcare, energy and manufacturing companies in an apparent reconnaissance campaign to identify targets for follow-up business email compromise attack. "Unfortunately, Google services are often abused for malware distribution, credential phishing and, in this case, as part of email fraud. Google is often a trusted source in many organizations, so threat actors leverage that goodwill for their attacks," says Sherrod DeGrippo, senior director of threat research and detecti...

LinkedIn From heightened risks to increased regulations, senior leaders at all levels are pressured to improve their organizations' risk management capabilities. But no one is showing them how - until now. Learn the fundamentals of developing a risk management program from the man who wrote the book on the topic: Ron Ross, computer scientist for the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In an exclusive presentation, Ross, lead author of NIS...

Jeremy Grant of Venable and Rebecca Archambault of Blue Cross Blue Shield The security challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, including managing a remote workforce, point to the need to prioritize identity management, say Rebecca Archambault of Blue Cross Blue Shield and Jeremy Grant of the law firm Venable. ”Put identity is at the center of your cybersecurity program. Make sure identity is sitting in the middle, and not at the outside of it,” Archambault says. “Make sure your security team is involved in all of your implementations and all of your maintenance,” she says in a...