August 2022 – Page 19 – PossibleThreat Articles

Corporate Governance scoring is increasingly important to boards of directors, executive leadership, and the investment community. Governance frameworks now incorporate aspects of IT security. Communicating the security message in ways that impact a company’s governance score is important to getting attention and investment from corporate leadership. This post examines a leading governance framework from Institutional Shareholder Services, Governance QualityScore, and the specifics of how IT security can increase a company’s score.

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Security Sophos

SophosAI presentations at Black Hat, BSides LV and DEF CON AI Village

August 8, 2022 0 Comments ai research, blackhat, bsideslv, DEF CON, sophos x-ops

Credit to Author: gallagherseanm| Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 11:30:11 +0000

Six presentations in Las Vegas this week cover multiple cybersecurity applications of machine learning

MalwareBytes Security

A week in security (August 1 – 7)

August 8, 2022 0 Comments A week in security, arris, blog recap, blog roundup, cisco vpn, FCC, justalk, lock and code, lock and code podcast, malwarebytes edr, managed service providers, mick foley, msp, netstandard, ps5 scam, Ransomware, rat, robotext, sextortion, smishing, sms phishing, twitter, twitter compromise, vmware, week in security, weekly blog roundup, woody rat

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 11:38:31 +0000

The most important and interesting computer security stories from the last week.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Banks face a WhatsApp reckoning as regulators clamp down on messaging apps

August 8, 2022 0 Comments Data privacy, Financial Services Industry, mobile apps

Credit to Author: Matthew Finnegan| Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 03:01:00 -0700

As regulators hand out hundreds of millions of dollars in fines for record-keeping failures related to the use of social messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, the finance industry faces a choice: properly enforce bans on the use of these apps or find ways to make them compliant.

“The explosion of new electronic communications channels — and the pervasive use of these — raises lots of red flags for the regulators,” said Anthony Diana, a partner at law firm Reed Smith’s Tech & Data Group. “The fear is that, if bad things are happening, they’re happening on these personal apps, not on the sanctioned communication channels that are surveilled.”