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CISA's Krebs: 2016 US Elections Were Cyber 'Sputnik' Moment

Data Breach Today

Cybersecurity Agency Ranks Election Security and Ransomware as Biggest Threats The 2016 U.S. presidential election served as a wake-up call for lawmakers and the public about the threat that cyber attackers can pose to the country's democracy, CISA Director Christopher Krebs told the 2020 RSA Conference.

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IBM Sells Cybersecurity Group

Schneier on Security

In 2016, IBM bought Resilient Systems, the startup I was a part of. It became part if IBM’s cybersecurity offerings, mostly and weirdly subservient to QRadar. QRadar was IBM’s first acquisition in the cybersecurity space, and it saw everything through the lens of that SIEM system.

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NEWS ANALYSIS Q&A: The early going of Generative AI and LLMs impacting cybersecurity

The Last Watchdog

Related: GenAI’s impact on elections It turns out that the vast datasets churned out by cybersecurity toolsets happen to be tailor-made for ingestion by Generative AI ( GenAI ) engines and Large Language Models ( LLMs.) LW: We’re at a very early phase of GenAI and LLM getting integrated into cybersecurity; what’s taking shape?

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Telco service provider giant Syniverse had unauthorized access since 2016

Security Affairs

Syniverse service provider discloses a security breach, threat actors have had access to its databases since 2016 and gained some customers’ credentials. Syniverse discloses a security breach, threat actors have had access to its databases since 2016. It also offered services to tech giants and major financial institutions.

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Chinese state-sponsored hackers breached TeamViewer in 2016

Security Affairs

The German newspaper Der Spiegel revealed that the software company behind TeamViewer was compromised in 2016 by Chinese hackers. China-linked hackers breached German software company behind TeamViewer in 2016, this news was reported by the German newspaper Der Spiegel. “In autumn 2016, TeamViewer was target of a cyber-attack.

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Venture Capital Pours Into Cybersecurity

Data Breach Today

billion in cybersecurity companies in 2018, about 20 percent more than in 2017 and twice as much as 2016, according to research from Strategic Cyber Ventures. Venture capitalists invested $5.3 What's ahead for 2019 and beyond?

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White House Announces AI Cybersecurity Challenge

Schneier on Security

I was a big fan of DARPA’s AI capture-the-flag event in 2016 , and am happy to see that DARPA is again inciting research in this area. In other words: the government wants software that is capable of identifying and mitigating risks by itself. This is a great idea. China has been doing this every year since 2017.)