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Will cryptocurrency mining soon saturate AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud?

The Last Watchdog

There’s a temptation to dismiss it as a mere nuisance; companies deep into ‘digital transformation,’ in particular, might be lulled into this sort of apathy. You can mine them, if you have a powerful CPU. Or you can steal them from a digital wallet. Or you can hijack other people’s computers to do the mining.

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NEW TECH: LogicHub introduces ‘virtualized’ security analysts to help elevate SOAR

The Last Watchdog

One of the promising cybersecurity trends that I’ve been keeping an eye on is this: SOAR continues to steadily mature. Security orchestration, automation and response, or SOAR, is a fledgling security technology stack that first entered the cybersecurity lexicon about six years ago. But that hasn’t been enough.

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Q&A: Why SOAR startup Syncurity is bringing a ‘case-management’ approach to threat detection

The Last Watchdog

There’s a frantic scramble going on among those responsible for network security at organizations across all sectors. Enterprises have dumped small fortunes into stocking their SOCs (security operations centers) with the best firewalls, anti-malware suites, intrusion detection, data loss prevention and sandbox detonators money can buy.

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MY TAKE: Poorly protected local government networks cast shadow on midterm elections

The Last Watchdog

The attack also brought cybersecurity to the local level. It’s easy to think of it as a problem the federal government must address or something that enterprises deal with, but cybersecurity has to be addressed closer to home, as well. Consequently, the security of these kinds of systems has become paramount.”. I spoke to A.N.

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Zero Trust Speeds Ransomware Response, Illumio-Bishop Fox Test Finds

eSecurity Planet

From mass production of cheap malware to ransomware as a service (RaaS) , cyber criminals have industrialized cybercrime, and a new HP Wolf Security report warns that cybercriminals are adapting advanced persistent threat (APT) tactics too. The results were announced today at the Black Hat USA 2022 cybersecurity conference.

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Q&A: How emulating attacks in a live environment can more pervasively protect complex networks

The Last Watchdog

There’s no doubt that monitoring and continually updating all parts of a multi-tiered security system is a must-do best practice. Tweaking one system can open fresh, unforeseen security holes in another. DeSanto: When you think about it, security and performance are usually hooked at the hip. LW: How has CyberFlood worked out?

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Knock-Knock Docker!! Will you let me in? Open API Abuse in Docker Containers

Security Affairs

Today, every organization in the industry is keen to embrace this Digital Transformation journey to leverage the benefits provided by DevOps by adopting it. At the same time, the cyber security industry is also moving very quickly to keep pace with the technology disruptions. Docker has both community and enterprise editions.

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