Dark Reading Daily -- May 24, 2019

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May 24, 2019

LATEST SECURITY NEWS & COMMENTARY

FEC Gives Green Light for Free Cybersecurity Help in Federal Elections

Official opinion issued by the Federal Election Commission to nonprofit Defending Digital Campaigns is good news for free and reduced-cost security offerings to political candidates and committees.

Moody's Downgrade of Equifax: A Wake-up Call to Boards

The event provides another spark to light a fire under CISOs to improve how they measure and communicate security risks to the board, security experts say.

Russian Nation-State Hacking Unit's Tools Get More Fancy

APT28/Fancy Bear has expanded its repertoire to more than 30 commands for infecting systems, executing code, and reconnaissance, researchers have found.

Researcher Publishes Four Zero-Day Exploits in Three Days

The exploits for local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Windows could be integrated into malware before Microsoft gets a chance to fix the issues.

Google's Origin & the Danger of Link Sharing

How the act of sharing links to files stored in a public cloud puts organizations at risk, and what security teams can do to safeguard data and PII.

Incident Response: 3 Easy Traps & How to Avoid Them

Sage legal advice about navigating a data breach from a troubleshooting cybersecurity outside counsel.

Microsoft Opens Defender ATP for Mac to Public Preview

Users of the security platform who have preview features enabled can access Defender ATP for Mac via the Security Center onboarding section.

Mobile Exploit Fingerprints Devices with Sensor Calibration Data

Data from routines intended to calibrate motion sensors can identify individual iOS and Android devices in a newly released exploit.

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EDITORS' CHOICE

What You Need to Know About Zero Trust Security

The zero trust model might be the answer to a world in which perimeters are made to be breached. Is it right for your organization?

To Manage Security Risk, Manage Data First

At Interop 2019, IT and security experts urged attendees to focus on data asset management as a means of mitigating risk.

Tech Resources

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Becoming a Threat Hunter in your Enterprise
Hear as a top expert discusses the process for building a threat hunting program, and for optimizing the efforts of designated threat hunters in the organization.
Building an Incident Readiness & Response Playbook
Don't make a data breach any harder than it needs to be. In this webinar, learn the Xs and Os of any good security incident readiness and response playbook.

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The State of Cyber Security Incident Response
Organizations are responding to new threats with new processes for detecting and mitigating them. Here's a look at how the discipline of incident response is evolving.
How Enterprises Are Developing Secure Applications
IT security and application development are disparate processes that are increasingly coming together. Here's a look at how that's happening.

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2019 State of Enterprise Secure Access Report

Microsoft Joins MANRS to Improve Routing Security

Hunters.AI Raises $5.4M Seed Round to Equip Cybersecurity Teams with Autonomous Threat Hunting Machine

Infocyte Launches Agentless Cloud Workload Protection Platform, Strengthens Capabilities in AWS Environments

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