Richard N. Velotta reports: The Federal Trade Commission’s dispute with MGM Resorts International over providing information about 2023’s costly cyberattack against the company may be coming to a resolution. The FTC has told MGM it plans to withdraw its civil investigative demand regarding the incident that cost the company an estimated $100 million and crippled the company’s…
Part entrepreneurial adventure, part security history, Bernardo Quintero’s ‘Infected’ documents how the VirusTotal side project became a threat-intel cornerstone. The post Book Review: Infected – A Candid Look at VirusTotal’s Birth and Legacy appeared first on SecurityWeek.
After conducting over 10,000 automated internal network penetration tests last year, vPenTest has uncovered a troubling reality that many businesses still have critical security gaps that attackers can easily exploit. Organizations often assume that firewalls, endpoint protection, and SIEMs are enough to keep them secure. But how effective are these defenses when put to the…
The supply chain attack involving the GitHub Action “tj-actions/changed-files” started as a highly-targeted attack against one of Coinbase’s open-source projects, before evolving into something more widespread in scope. “The payload was focused on exploiting the public CI/CD flow of one of their open source projects – agentkit, probably with the purpose of leveraging it for…
The U.S. Defense Department added dozens of Chinese companies, including Tencent, SenseTime and battery maker CATL, to a list of companies it says have ties to China’s military. The post Chinese Tech Companies Tencent, CATL and Others Protest US Listings as Army-Linked Companies appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Chris Riotta reports: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is ramping up digital efforts to protect Americans in a year that’s witnessed hackers targeting sensitive patient data and major breaches at Ascension and UnitedHealth. HHS is set to unveil a notice of proposed rulemaking requiring healthcare companies to encrypt data, conduct routine compliance…
Consolidating from an overly burdensome number of point solutions to an easier to manage platform-based approach brings with it a number of benefits. The post Rationalizing the Stack: The Case for Security Vendor Consolidation appeared first on SecurityWeek.
