Recruiting the best cybersecurity talent is an especially difficult task. Good people are very hard to find in a tight labor market where demand effortlessly outstrips supply.
Overcoming Cybersecurity Recruiting Challenges
A Chilling Russian Cyber Aim in Ukraine: Digital Dossiers
Russia’s relentless digital assaults on Ukraine may have caused less damage than many anticipated. But most of its hacking is focused on a different goal that gets less attention but has chilling potential consequences: data collection.
IETF Publishes RFC 9116 for ‘security.txt’ File
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has published RFC 9116 for the security.txt file, whose goal is to make it easier for researchers to responsibly disclose the vulnerabilities they find.
Over 300,000 Internet-Exposed Databases Identified in 2021
Cybersecurity firm Group-IB identified more than 91,000 publicly-exposed databases in the first quarter of 2022, significantly more than in the previous year.
Russia Coordinating Cyberattacks With Military Strikes in Ukraine: Microsoft
A handful of hacker groups aligned with the Russian government have carried out hundreds of cyberattacks against Ukraine since Moscow invaded, US tech giant Microsoft said in a report Wednesday.
It added that in “hybrid” warfare tactics, Russia often matches cyberattacks with military assaults on the battlefield.
Privacy Enhancing Tech Startup Enveil Bags $25 Million Investment
Enveil, an early-stage startup tackling the ‘holy grail’ of data encryption, has banked another $25 million in funding as investors continue to pour money into the privacy enhancing technology space.
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Risk Intelligence Company Strider Raises $45 Million
Risk intelligence startup Strider Technologies today announced that it has raised $45 million in Series B funding, which brings the total investment in the company to $57 million.
The new funding round was led by Valor Equity Partners, with additional investment from DataTribe, One9 Ventures, and Koch Disruptive Technologies.
Internet Outages in French Cities After Cable ‘Attacks’: Operator
Internet and phone services were down or running slowly in several French cities on Wednesday after fibre optic cables were cut overnight in suspected attacks on the crucial data infrastructure, telecom operators said.
