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Week in review: ZuoRAT targeting SOHO routers, trends affecting your security strategy

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: OT security: Helping under-resourced critical infrastructure organizations In this Help Net Security interview, Dawn Cappelli, Director of OT-CERT at the industrial cybersecurity company Dragos, talks about the OT security risks critical infrastructure organizations are facing, offers advice on how they can overcome obstacles that prevent them improving their cybersecurity posture, and explains how the recently set up OT-CERT she’s heading … More → The post Week in review: ZuoRAT targeting SOHO routers, trends affecting your security strategy appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Inspectiv raises $8.6 million to help companies protect against security threats

Inspectiv announced the closing of an $8.6 million Series A funding round that will accelerate its use of artificial intelligence to revolutionize how businesses safeguard their operations. Inspectiv is a vulnerability detection platform that combines intelligence from crowdsourced security testing and proprietary vulnerability scanning to help companies continuously identify, remediate, and protect against security threats. The new Series A funding round, led by StepStone Group with Fika Ventures, Freestyle and Mucker Capital, brings Inspectiv’s total … More → The post Inspectiv raises $8.6 million to help companies protect against security threats appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Sourcepoint hires Chris Chapman as CTO and promotes Chloe Grutchfield to CPO

Sourcepoint announces a key new hire in the US. With 25 years of experience in the programmatic advertising industry, Chris Chapman takes on the role of Chief Technology Officer, and Chloe Grutchfield has been promoted to Chief Product Officer from Senior Vice President, Product. Chris has held senior roles at Adsafe Media and Integral Ad Science, as well as co-founding Sailthru and his own company Saferoute in 2006. His experience in the ad verification space … More → The post Sourcepoint hires Chris Chapman as CTO and promotes Chloe Grutchfield to CPO appeared first on Help Net Security.
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YARA 4.2.2 Released, (Sat, Jul 2nd)

Version 4.2.2 of YARA was released.
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Fun stuff: celebrate the land of the free

Federal News Network’s Jory Heckman speaks with Recreation News Publisher Karl Teel about interesting things to do in and near the nation’s capital.
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The role of health care in the pillars of national security

Moshe Schwartz, president of Etherton and Associates, dug deeper into the three pillars that make up national security, and how the COVID-19 pandemic and inflation have reshaped our nation’s thinking about them.
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Algorithm predicts crime a week in advance, but reveals bias in police response

A new computer model uses publicly available data to predict crime accurately in eight U.S. cities, while revealing increased police response in wealthy neighborhoods at the expense of less advantaged areas.
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Navigating New Personnel Issues in the Pandemic Era

This week’s FEDtalk show features attorneys from the law firm of Shaw Bransford & Roth (SBR) to discuss personnel issues and trends emerging from the pandemic era.
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Abortion bans cause privacy, financial issues for service members, despite DoD’s efforts

Pregnant service members will need permission from commanders to take leave to get medical care.
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The challenges and advantages of building behavior-based threat detection

In this video for Help Net Security, Scott Sutherland, Senior Director, Adversary Simulation and Infrastructure Testing, NetSPI, discusses how, in order to stay ahead of malicious actors, organizations must shift their gaze to detect attackers before something bad happens. The post The challenges and advantages of building behavior-based threat detection appeared first on Help Net Security.
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