How chaos engineering can help DevSecOps teams find vulnerabilities
The words “chaos” and “engineering” aren’t usually found together. After all, good engineers keep chaos at bay. Yet lately software developers are deploying what they loosely call “chaos” in...
A top Ukrainian security official on defending the nation against cyber attacks
Editor’s Note: In November 2020, The Record published an interview between Recorded Future expert threat intelligence analyst Dmitry Smilyanets and Serhii Demediuk, the Deputy Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security...
Take ‘Urgent’ Steps to Secure Systems From Damaging Attacks, CISA Says
The US Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) today published a bulletin for senior leaders of US organizations to "immediately implement" a list of specific...
Researchers Explore Hacking VirusTotal to Find Stolen Credentials
Security researchers have found a method to collect vast amounts of stolen user credentials by executing searches on VirusTotal, the online service used to analyze suspicious files and URLs.
With...
Microsoft Details Recent Damaging Malware Attacks on Ukrainian Organizations
Multiple organizations in Ukraine were hit last week in a destructive, likely nation-state-backed malware operation designed to render targeted systems completely inoperable.
The two-stage malware looks like ransomware on the...
Name That Toon: Nowhere to Hide
Who says you can't teach an old snowman new tricks? Now we need the perfect caption for the above cartoon. And for that we turn to you, Dark Reading...
US Search for Vulnerabilities Drives 10x Increase in Bug Reports
A September 2020 directive to US government agencies to create vulnerability disclosure policies has driven a surge in bug-reporting activities: The federal sector saw a 1,000% increase in valid...
