Ransomware protection guarantee is offered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne is offering a to pay customers $1,000 per endpoint for customers’ machines that get infected by ransomware and that its products don’t either block or remediate.
Stories by Tim Greene
At Black Hat: A free tool for spear phishing Twitter
A spear phishing tool to automate the creation of phony tweets - complete with malicious URLs – with messages victims are likely to click on will be released at Black Hat by researchers from ZeroFOX.
Called SNAP_R (for social network automated phisher with reconnaissance), the tool runs through a target Twitter account to gather data on what topics seem to interest the subscriber. Then it writes a tweet loaded up with a link to a site containing malware and sends it.
Carbon Black buys Confer for next-gen anti-virus
Carbon Black has bought Confer to boost its protection for network endpoints using a behavioral form of antivirus combined with cloud analysis of threats rather than traditional signature-based software.
MIT researchers: Network pros could learn a lot from ants
How ants decide where to move their nests can help computer scientists seeking efficient ways to gather data from distributed networks of sensors, according to an algorithm developbed by MIT researchers.
Shlomo Kramer: a security investor looking for smart entrepreneurs to disrupt markets
Israeli investor and entrepreneur Shlomo Kramer talks about how to spot a good company to invest in.
Bay Dynamics lands another $23 million to speed expansion
Security-analytics firm Bay Dynamics has pulled down $23 million more in venture funding to help the company speed up its international expansion and execution of its action plan to reach customers and differentiate itself from competitors.
Cisco Live: Cisco bolsters, integrates security products and services
Cisco enhances products from Lancope, OpenDNS, Meraki deals.
Stuxnet the movie: The U.S. has pwned Iran
The new documentary about Stuxnet, ‘Zero Days’, says the U.S. had a far larger cyber operation against Iran called Nitro Zeus that has compromised the country’s infrastructure and could be used as a weapon in any future war.
Brown University offers Ivy League CISO creds
Freshly minted CISOs as well as other mid-career professionals with a need for a broad grounding in cybersecurity can get an advanced degree in the topic through a new program at Brown University.
Kaspersky: Ransomware that encrypts is booming
Over the past year the number of machines hit by ransomware that encrypts all or part of the hard drive is five-and-a-half times what it was the year before, according to Kaspersky Lab.
DHS wants to predict how malware will morph
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants to be able to predict what form malware will take so it can plan how to block it when it becomes reality.
Gartner’s top 10 security predictions
Gartner has taken a look at five key areas of security concern that businesses face this year and issued predictions on and recommendations about protecting networks and data from threats that will likely arise in each.
Startup Preempt detects, blocks bad users, devices
Preempt is a startup whose virtual appliance acts as a behavioral firewall that ranks the risk a user or device represents and responds automatically based on policies set by corporate security pros.
FireEye: China still spies on U.S. companies, but maybe less
Cyber espionage based in China isn’t all run by the government, report says.
Gartner on doing business in China: Privacy? What’s that?
Jie Zhang says that as a child in China she played a game picking up marbles with chopsticks and performing the delicate task of carrying them to another room without dropping them. That’s what doing business in China is like for Westerners, she told a breakfast gathering today at Gartner’s Security and Risk Management Summit.