Becky Bracken

2 weeks ago | darkreading.com | Becky Bracken

A sprawling infostealer racket was just kneecapped, according to Interpol, which credits cooperative work done by the agency's Asia and South Pacific Joint Operations Against Cybercrime (ASPJOC) Project for the success. The coordinated, international effort, called Operation Secure, involved law enforcement across 26 countries working together to plan the takedown, which Interpol said has resulted in the the arrest of 32 suspects, as well as the seizure of 41 servers and more than 100GB of data.

2 weeks ago | iotworldtoday.com | Becky Bracken

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2 weeks ago | darkreading.com | Becky Bracken

A June 6 cybersecurity executive order from the Trump White House takes a couple of swipes at presidential predecessors Barack Obama and Joe Biden. But beyond petty politics, cybersecurity experts widely agree that there is plenty about the new approach that will help the US adapt to a new landscape riddled with threats from artificial intelligence, post-quantum computing, and a janky software supply chain.

1 month ago | darkreading.com | Becky Bracken

NEWS BRIEFSentinelOne said it has restored services to its endpoint detection and response (EDR) consoles across the world, which experienced a brief but widespread outage on May 29. In a message to customers, the cybersecurity vendor said that that initial indications do not point to a security incident. "Customer endpoints are still protected at this time, but managed response services will not have visibility," message sent to SentinelOne customers explained.

1 month ago | darkreading.com | Becky Bracken

HackerOne recently announced that over the past six years, the bug bounty platform has minted 50 fresh millionaires by providing them an easily accessible platform to help companies ferret out security vulnerabilities in software, for big cash payouts. But it wasn't always this easy to make a whole hustle out of ethical hacking. There's been a shift in the culture, from "fringe activity to financially viable profession," according to HackerOne. That change didn't happen by chance.