Why MTTR is Bad for SecOps
Kerry Matre, senior director at Mandiant, discusses the appropriate metrics to use to measure SOC and analyst performance, and how MTTR leads to bad behavior.
Critical Infrastructure
5G Security Vulnerabilities Fluster Mobile Operators
A survey from GSMA and Trend Micro shows a concerning lack of security capabilities for private 5G networks (think factories, smart cities, industrial IoT, utilities and more).
Faux ‘DarkSide’ Gang Takes Aim at Global Energy, Food Sectors
A DarkSide doppelganger mounts a fraud campaign aimed at extorting nearly $4 million from each target.
An hour-long outage hit airlines, banks and the Hong Kong Stock exchange. It’s thought to have been caused by a DDoS mitigation service.
“We hereby keep a right (sic) to forward all of the relevant documentation and data to military agencies of our choise (sic)” REvil reportedly wrote.
Joseph Carson, chief security scientist and advisory CISO at ThycoticCentrify, discusses best practices for securing healthcare data against the modern threat landscape.
Pandemic and evolving IT demands are having a major, negative impact on CISOs’ mental health, a survey found.
According to news reports, Colonial Pipeline paid the cybergang known as DarkSide the ransom it demanded in return for a decryption key.
Paper ballots and source-code transparency are recommended to improve election security.
Security researchers mull possible perpetrators of the attack, and warned that the incident could be a harbinger of things to come.
