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Image: enzozo/Adobe Stock Mandiant is a companies whose business centers around digital forensics and incident response as well as cyber threat intelligence. The company recently released a CTI analyst core competencies framework to answer a question they often get from their customers: What is the optimal team composition for starting and maturing a CTI capability inside their corporate environment? Mandiant’s framework groups competencies into four foundational pillars (Figure A). Those can be used to identify…

Cybersecurity company Akamai has found one of their clients has suffered a DDoS attack at the hands of a group claiming to be REvil. Image: Adobe Stock According to a report released by cybersecurity company Akamai, one of its customers is currently experiencing a DDoS attack being carried out by Russian-affiliated hacking group REvil. REvil was thought to have been taken offline after several members were arrested earlier this year, leading some to believe the…

ServiceNow is using its Knowledge customer conference in Las Vegas to relaunch a feature of its latest software release that it feels did not get enough attention first time around: Procurement Service Management. This is fresh territory for the Now Platform, which has so far been used to automate workflows in IT (such as service management or operations management), HR, or order management. With the chaos surrounding supply chains these days, though, the procurement function…

Zoom, the videoconferencing platform that has become a staple for connection and communication since the onset of COVID-19, has revealed four recent security vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities could be exploited to compromise users over chat by sending specially crafted Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) messages and executing malicious code. The four vulnerabilities, ranging from 5.9 to 8.1 in severity, were discovered by Ivan Fratric, Google Project Zero. Fratric tracked the flaws from CVE-2022-22784 through CVE-2022-22787…

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which is led by the U.S. government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in conjunction with the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA)—a national non-profit focused on cybersecurity education & awareness. McAfee is pleased to announce that we’re a proud participant. Fitness trackers worn on the wrist, glucose monitors that test blood sugar without a prick, and connected toothbrushes that let you know when you’ve missed a spot—welcome to internet-connected healthcare….