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McAfee Acquires Light Point for Browser Isolation Tech

02/25/2020
Company plans to integrate Light Point Security's technology into the McAfee Secure Web Gateway and its Mvision UCE platform.

Solving the Cloud Data Security Conundrum

02/24/2020
Trusting the cloud involves a change in mindset. You must be ready to use runtime encryption in the cloud.

Latest Security News from RSAC 2020

02/24/2020
Check out Dark Reading's updated, exclusive coverage of the news and security themes that are dominating RSA Conference 2020 in San Francisco.

7 Tips to Improve Your Employees' Mobile Security

02/24/2020
Security experts discuss the threats putting mobile devices at risk and how businesses can better defend against them.

Security Now Merges With Dark Reading

02/21/2020
Readers of Security Now will join the Dark Reading community, gaining access to a wide range of cybersecurity content.

10 Tough Questions CEOs Are Asking CISOs

02/20/2020
CEOs today are prepared with better questions than 'Are we secure,' and chief information security officers had better be ready to answer.

Firms Improve Threat Detection but Face Increasingly Disruptive Attacks

02/20/2020
In addition, more third parties are discovering the attacks rather than the companies themselves.

The Road(s) to Riches

02/18/2020
You could be making millions in just two years!

Staircase to the Cloud: Dark Reading Caption Contest Winners

02/18/2020
A humorous nod to the lack of gender equity in cybersecurity hiring was our judges' unanimous choice. And the winners are ...

8 Things Users Do That Make Security Pros Miserable

02/18/2020
When a user interacts with an enterprise system, the result can be productivity or disaster. Here are eight opportunities for the disaster side to win out over the productive.

Martin and Dorothie Hellman on Love, Crypto & Saving the World

02/15/2020
Martin Hellman, co-creator of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange, and his wife of 53 years, Dorothie, talk about the current state of cryptography and what making peace at home taught them about making peace on Earth.

To Avoid Disruption, Ransomware Victims Continue to Pay Up

01/22/2020
For all the cautions against doing so, one-third of organizations in a Proofpoint survey said they paid their attackers after getting infected with ransomware.

Las Vegas Suffers Cyberattack on First Day of CES

01/08/2020
The attack, still under investigation, hit early in the morning of Jan. 7.

Developers Still Don't Properly Handle Sensitive Data

01/08/2020
The top classes of vulnerabilities for 2019 indicate that developers still don't correctly sanitize inputs, nor protect passwords and keys as they should.

DHS Warns of Potential Iranian Cyberattacks

01/07/2020
Recent US military action in Baghdad could prompt retaliatory attacks against US organizations, it says.

Widely Known Flaw in Pulse Secure VPN Being Used in Ransomware Attacks

01/06/2020
New Year's Eve attack on currency exchange service Travelex may have involved use of the flaw.

Time for Insider-Threat Programs to Grow Up

01/02/2020
Immature programs attempting to protect against damaging attacks by insiders run the risk of alienating employees.

CCPA Kickoff: What Businesses Need to Know

01/02/2020
The California Consumer Privacy Act is in full effect, prompting organizations to think about how they'll remain compliant.

Ransomware Scuttles Coast Guard Facility for 30+ Hours

01/02/2020
The attack on the unnamed facility began with a malicious email link.

Santa and the Zero-Trust Model: A Christmas Story

12/23/2019
How would the world's most generous elf operate in a world of zero-trust security? A group of cybersecurity experts lets us know.