Cybersecurity News

Palo Alto Networks has found that suspected foreign threat actors have compromised nine organizations across the defense, technology, health care, education and energy industries, CNN reported Sunday. Ryan Olson, vice president of the Unit 42 division at Palo Alto Networks, said the hackers sought to maintain persistent access to the targeted entities’ networks by stealing […] More

The U.S. Space Force could begin to implement rules next year for commercial satellite communications service providers to comply with the same cybersecurity standards being followed by federal civilian agencies, Air Force Magazine reported Friday. Jared Reece, manager of the U.S. Space Force’s Infrastructure Asset Pre-Assessment Program, said that the branch’s new policy will be […] More

Twenty-six more Fortinet Security Fabric products were added to the Department of Defense Information Network Approved Products List as they passed a Defense Information Systems Agency evaluation. The DoDIN APL certification allows FortiGate firewall products to be used across DOD agencies and reflects the offerings’ compliance with DISA’s Security Technical Implementation Guide, Fortinet said Wednesday. […] More

Microsoft has initiated a national campaign aimed at expanding the cybersecurity workforce to 250,000 professionals by 2025 in an effort to address the current shortage of employees in the said field. Brad Smith, president and vice chair at Microsoft, wrote on a blog post published Thursday that the initiative is done in collaboration with U.S. […] More

A new survey by Guidehouse and the Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management has found that cybersecurity and privacy concerns top the list of risks that federal agencies consider to have the most significant impact on their organizations’ current and future strategic objectives. The 2021 Federal Enterprise Risk Management Survey also found that 31 percent […] More

Microsoft has found that a threat actor called Nobelium with ties to Russia’s foreign intelligence service SVR is targeting cloud service resellers, technology service providers and their customers to secure privileged access and steal legitimate credentials using phishing, password spray and other common techniques. Tom Burt, corporate vice president for customer security and trust at […] More

Unisys has released a hybrid workplace security-focused study that shows increased internet security concerns and lack of cybersecurity threat awareness among Americans as well as more cases of employees leveraging software not authorized for work and bypassing security processes of their companies. The company said Tuesday it surveyed 1,000 consumers in the U.S. and 10,000 […] More

BAE Systems will serve as a research sponsor to help a Mitre Engenuity-operated center develop resources to help organizations protect and defend their networks from cyberattacks. Mitre Engenuity launched the Center for Threat-Informed Defense in 2019 in response to the cybersecurity community’s call for a nonprofit, noncommercial center that would help advance the development of […] More

A team at Lockheed Martin plans to build an application-specific integrated circuit with security capabilities using an approach developed through a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that seeks to protect electronic systems from vulnerabilities that are being exploited through software. DARPA’s System Security Integration Through Hardware and Firmware program intends to develop hardware security […] More

Dean Hullings, Global Defense Solutions Strategist at Forescout, spoke about the cybersecurity firm’s efforts to support a Department of Defense program that seeks to provide cyber capabilities for management of all Pentagon network assets to enable enterprisewide zero trust security. In an interview with Breaking Defense, Hullings said Forescout was awarded a follow-on contract from […] More