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.
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.
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.
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.
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.