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Automated fraud attacks against e-commerce retailers have increased in volume, frequency and sophistication, according to new research published today. The Automated Fraud Benchmark Report: E-commerce Edition by PerimeterX is a new comprehensive annual report based on e-commerce cyber-attack activity over the past year. Findings draw upon anonymous data collected during live online interactions by millions of consumers and hundreds of millions of bots in 2020. Analysis of the data revealed traffic and threat patterns across hundreds of the world’s largest websites,…

The United States Coast Guard is to establish a Cyber Operational Assessments Branch this summer and create its first ever red team. The planned restructuring, first reported by Federal News Network, will support the cybersecurity work currently being undertaken by the Coast Guard’s blue team. Acting as a cyber adversary, the red team will emulate the behavior of threat actors and perform penetration tests to identify any weaknesses in the Coast Guard’s cyber-defenses.  Cyber blue team…

Cybersecurity expert says it all starts with process. The regulations will make it easier for companies to report breaches. TechRepublic’s Karen Roby spoke with Jennifer Bisceglie, CEO of Interos, about President Joe Biden’s executive order on cybersecurity. The following is an edited version of their conversation. SEE: Security incident response policy (TechRepublic Premium) Karen Roby: Go ahead and go over a couple of the main points of the president’s executive order. What really sticks out…

Some cybersecurity weak spots will be strengthened by Biden’s executive order, expert says Length: 11:36 | May 25, 2021 There’s still a lot of work to be done, but it will help companies feel better about reporting breaches and sharing information. Source link

In response to the latest MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluation 3, McAfee noted five capabilities that are must-haves for Sec Ops and displayed in the evaluation.  This blog will speak to the alert actionability capability which is essential. This critical ability to react in the fastest possible way, as early as possible on the attack chain, while correlating, aggregating and summarizing all subsequent activity while reducing alert fatigue to allow Sec Ops to uphold efficient actionability.   As a Sec Ops practitioner and former analyst, I can remember the days of painstakingly sifting through countless alerts to determine if any of them could be classified as an incident….