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Help Net Security: Kevin Weiss brings over 25 years of strategy and leadership experience in the technology space and joins Sectigo from Spireon, where he served as CEO for more than six years.
Axios: Heading into 2023, cybersecurity companies are starting to see the first signs of the economic downturn hitting their businesses. The big picture: More companies are starting to see their customers prioritize services like incident response over more costly, proactive IT investments like transitions to the cloud.
CBC: Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children says it has been hit with a ransomware attack affecting some of its phone lines, web pages and clinical systems.
CNBC: Imagine this situation: your CEO just resigned and as CFO, you’re the acting chief. After returning to the office from an exhausting overseas trip, your CIO informs you that malware was deployed within your customer databases.
Bleeping Computer: Sports betting company DraftKings revealed last week that more than 67,000 customers had their personal information exposed following a credential attack in November.
The Target: Uber, a U.S based ride-service company.
The Take: Exposure of sensitive company information including: IT Asset reports, Windows domain login names and email addresses, and Active Directory information.
The Vector: The data was stolen through a breach in a third-party provider, Teqtivity, using compromised employee credentials. These were used to gain access to an AWS backup server.
This breach is a stark reminder of how authentication controls are in an overall robust cybersecurity posture, and more critically, ensuring these controls are in place on all third-party vendors which have access to a firm’s data. The information stolen in this attack could lead to highly targeted phishing campaigns against Uber. Regular vendor assessments are a key component in cybersecurity.
ITPro: The US' Department of Justice (DoJ) has begun the seizure of 48 DDoS-for-hire services and brought criminal charges against six individuals involved.
Business Wire: Public sector organizations are more likely to struggle with leveraging data to detect and prevent threats than their private sector counterparts (63% to 49%), ultimately affecting their cybersecurity readiness. That’s according to a survey commissioned by Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), the data platform leader for security and observability.
Dark Reading: Around the world, employees have been experiencing extreme stress due to the ongoing pandemic, business disruption, and the faster pace of work.
Reuters: Cybersecurity start-up Snyk Ltd said it had raised $196.5 million in Series G funding, led by Qatar Investment Authority, which is at a lower valuation of $7.4 billion.
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