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Proofpoint Sues Facebook to Keep Using Lookalike Domains

Proofpoint and Facebook are in court fighting over how to handle the problem of domains that impersonate well-known brands, highlighting the difficulty in differentiating malicious activity and security awareness.

Phishing, Security Awareness

Decipher Podcast: Neil Daswani

Neil Daswani, co-director of the advanced security program at Stanford University and a former engineer at Twitter and Google, joins Dennis Fisher to discuss his new book, Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone, and the common root causes and effects of major data breaches.

Podcast

Keeping Dependencies Straight in the Software Supply Chain

The nature of modern software development is that development teams have to rely on "blind trust" for some of the code components written by someone else. A new attack method showed how build systems could be tricked into pulling code from the wrong projects.

Software Development, Supply Chain, Open Source

‘Stop Acting Like These Attacks are Special or Rare’

National security experts and policy makers say the U.S. needs to act now to raise the cost of doing business for state-backed attackers.

CISA, Government

Email Attackers Target Victims Based on Demographics

Criminals pay attention to user demographics to target specific types of users when crafting email-based attacks, a joint study from Google and Stanford found.

Phishing