The Good | Law Enforcement Set New IoT Device Protections, Charge Ex-NSA Spy, and Sentence REvil Affiliate to Prison Global law enforcement agencies made significant strides this week, improving the minimum safety standards to protect tech consumers and officially sentencing two major cybersecurity criminals. Tech manufacturers in the U.K. are now legally required to protect […]

It’s been little more than a week since Apple rolled out an unprecedented 74 new rules to its XProtect malware signature list in version 2192. A further 10 rules were appended in version 2193 on April 30th. Cupertino’s security team were clearly hoping that a concerted effort would serve to disrupt prolific adware distributor Adload’s

In an expanding collaboration between Chubb, one of the largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance companies, and SentinelOne, a cybersecurity leader, clients of SentinelOne who are also Chubb policyholders can now share their enterprise cyber health assessment data with Chubb. This facilitates a more efficient and precise underwriting process. With the increasing emphasis on

We are thrilled to announce our latest S Ventures investment in Guardz, a unified cybersecurity platform built to empower MSPs to secure and insure small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). A Modern Approach to Cybersecurity for SMBs SMBs today face a unique set of challenges when it comes to protecting against the evolving cybersecurity threat landscape.

On Mar 29, 2024 details emerged about CVE-2024-3094, a vulnerability impacting the xz compression libraries used by Linux distributions. The backdoor code was distributed to all rolling distributions. However, it was tailored to target distributions such as Debian and Fedora, which patch their SSH daemon with liblzma. Further, the backdoor scripts included system checks to

Last week, PinnacleOne detailed how geopolitical dynamics and cyber threats drive risk for firms investing in or building strategic technologies. This week, we focus on how emerging generative AI tools are accelerating cybersecurity defensive capabilities, with a deep dive on SentinelOne’s newly released Purple AI. Please subscribe to read future issues — and forward this

Imagine if hunting for emerging threats was as straightforward as asking a colleague a simple question in plain language. Today, I’m excited to announce that SentinelOne has turned this into a reality with the launch of Purple AI. Last April, we unveiled a first-of-its-kind AI-assisted platform that fuses data from SentinelOne’s real-time, embedded neural networks

Let’s talk about the modern complexities of device management. It’s hectic out there, and the Cisco Meraki Systems Manager (SM) mobile device management (MDM) team is in the trenches, working hard to keep things under control with security and management across the evolving tech terrain. In fact, we’re amping up our game to stay ahead

The Good | Developer Uncovers Backdoor Planted in XZ Utils Over the Easter weekend, software developer Andres Freund uncovered a backdoor hidden within XZ Utils, an open-source data compressor ubiquitous in nearly all Linux-based systems. Currently, the supply chain flaw is tracked as CVE-2024-3094 (CVSS score: 10.0) and is being described as what could have

The Good | U.S. Treasury Cracks Down on Russian & Chinese State-Backed Threats In back-to-back announcements this week, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned cryptocurrency exchanges leveraged by Russian dark markets and a Chinese-based company linked to APT31 threat actors (aka Zirconium and Violet Typhoon). Thirteen entities and two individuals now face sanctions