Cyber Security News & Trends – 05-25-18

Each week, SonicWall collects the cyber security industry’s most compelling, trending and important interviews, media and news stories — just for you.

SonicWall Spotlight

Real-Time Cyber Threat Intelligence Is More Critical Than Ever — Forbes

• SonicWall CEO Bill Conner discusses the importance of organizations utilizing real-time cyber threat intelligence as the cybersecurity landscape grows increasingly dangerous.

SonicWall Splits from Quest, Surpasses Financial Objectives — Dark Reading

• Dark Reading breaks down SonicWall’s recent momentum announcement, touching on the company’s newfound financial and operational independence, as well as innovations on the partner and customer front

SonicWall Boasts 60% YOY Partner Deal-Registration Increase — Channel Partners

• Due to SonicWall’s recent announcement, the company is featured for its success in the channel with the SecureFirst program which enabled partner deal registrations to hit a year-over-year increase of 60 percent.

Cyber Security News

VPNFilter Malware With Bricking Capabilities Poses Major Threat After Infecting 500,000+ Networking Devices — SC Magazine

• A potentially highly-destructive malware is estimated to have infected at least 500,000 networking devices in at least 54 countries since as far back as 2016, in what could be the prelude to a massive attack potentially capable of cutting off the internet from hundreds of thousands around the world.

U.S. Launches Criminal Probe into Bitcoin Price Manipulation — Bloomberg

• The Justice Department has opened a criminal probe into whether traders are manipulating the price of Bitcoin and other digital currencies, dramatically ratcheting up U.S. scrutiny of red-hot markets that critics say are rife with misconduct, according to four people familiar with the matter.

UK Threatens to Name and Shame State Backers of Cyber-attacks — The Guardian

• In a speech referring to Russian and North Korean “campaigns of intrusion”, Jeremy Wright QC called for international sanctions to be applied against countries that exploit cyberspace for illegal purposes.

Cyber Amendments to Watch in the House’s Defense Authorization Bill — Nextgov

• The House Rules Committee is considering more than a dozen cyber-focused amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act, a must-pass policy bill.

Intel Responds to Spectre-Like Flaw in CPUs — Threat Post

• Intel acknowledged that its processors are vulnerable to another dangerous speculative execution side channel flaw that could give attackers unauthorized read access to memory.

In Case You Missed It

• How SonicWall Adheres to GDPR Requirements — Bob Honour
• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): Background, Context & FAQs — Bob Honour
• Michele Campbell, Dawn Ringstaff Named to CRN’s 2018 Women of the Channel List — Terri O’Leary
• The E-rate ‘Fear Less’ Technology Infrastructure — John Mullen
• What is MU-MIMO wireless technology? — Srudi Dineshan

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