MSG Dodges Data-Breach Suits, Lawyer Warns Fight Isn’t Over
Lawmakers in both houses of Congress are demanding answers from the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) after KrebsOnSecurity reported this week that a CISA contractor intentionally published AWS GovCloud keys and a vast trove of other agency secrets on a public GitHub account. The inquiry comes as CISA is still struggling to contain…
This blog post is part 1 of a 2-part series. The second part sets out recommendations for companies and policymakers. Six years ago—one month into a global pandemic—we argued that the automated moderation processes many platforms were rapidly adopting should be highly transparent, easily appealable, and temporary. We warned that “protocols adopted in times of crisis…
For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. This week, researchers from multiple security firms concluded that the Popa botnet is linked to NetNut, a “residential proxy” provider operated by the…
I keep hearing the same frustration when I talk with security leaders. The real problem sitting on their desk isn’t finding vulnerabilities. It’s deciding which ones actually matter. The industry has spent billions on better visibility. We’ve convinced ourselves that if we could just discover more vulnerabilities, collect more data, and ingest more threat intelligence,…
By Yogesh Ranade from Palo Alto Networks, and Senthil Ramakrishnan from AT&T The digital world is currently navigating a dual-speed revolution. Acceleration of AI and hyperconnectivity is unlocking unprecedented economic value. The silent but rapid progress of quantum computing is fundamentally threatening the cryptographic foundation upon which that value is built. As leaders in global…
Palo Alto Networks is pleased to announce the successful completion of a new Cloud Medium security assessment conducted by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre), significantly expanding the number of Palo Alto Networks cloud services assessed for Protected B / Medium Integrity / Medium Availability (PBMM) environments. This assessment includes a broad range…