Cyber Security News & Trends

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

SonicWall Spotlight

SonicWall Secures Hybrid Clouds by Simplifying, Enhancing Deployment for Enterprises, SMBs – SonicWall Press Release

• This week SonicWall announced a major expansion of their Capture Cloud Platform including secure SD-WAN, Zero-Touch Deployment, and personalized cyber threat intelligence.

Congress Passes Bill Creating Cybersecurity Agency at DHS – Security Week

• SonicWall CEO Bill Conner talks to Security Week with his thoughts on why the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Act is paramount for securing critical digital infrastructure.

Free SD-WAN Capability Highlights New SonicWall Capture Cloud Platform Announcements – Channel Buzz (Canada)

• SonicWall’s Lawrence Pingree talks to Channel Buzz about SonicWall’s recent product expansion announcement and how he sees SonicWall’s position now compared to 12 months ago.

13 Tech Experts Share What Facebook Should Do Post-Data Breach

• Bill Conner, CEO of SonicWall, is featured as a member of the Forbes Tech Council highlighting why good policy is important for a company like Facebook if they want to be able to recover from a data breach.

Cyber Security News

Researchers Discover Seven New Meltdown and Spectre Attacks – ZDNet

• A team of researchers have found that new variants of Meltdown and Spectre are being released. SonicWall confirmed that Capture ATP cloud sandbox with Real-Time Deep Memory Inspection will stop them.

Nordstrom Blames Breach of Employee Data on Contractor – BankInfoSecurity

• US department store Nordstrom suffered from an internal breach of employee data in October and have pinned the problem on a contractor.

Scare Force: Pakistan Military Hit by Operation Shaheen Malware – The Register (UK)

• The Pakistan Air Force and Government have been hit with a concentrated phishing and malware campaign according to new research by Cylance.

Mozilla: Firefox Will Start Alerting You to Recently Breached Sites – ZDNet

• Firefox Monitor, previously a separate website, is being expanded and integrated into the Firefox web browser and will inform users with an alert if a website being visited has had a breach reported in the previous 12 months.

2018 on Track to Be One of the Worst Ever for Data Breaches – Dark Reading

• A new report says that 2018 is currently only behind 2005 when it comes to data breaches, with up to 3.6 billion records compromised so far.

Ahead of Black Friday, Rash of Malware Families Takes Aim at Holiday Shoppers – Threat Post

• As many as fourteen types of malware are found to be readying themselves to take advantage of unsuspecting online shoppers.

A Leaky Database of SMS Text Messages Exposed Password Resets and Two-Factor Codes – Tech Crunch

• An exposed server was found with tens of millions of text messages, including password reset links, two-factor codes, shipping notifications and more all easily accessible.

In Case You Missed It

• Monitor & Optimize Your Cybersecurity Posture with Real-Time Risk Metering – Ken Dang
• Choosing a Firewall with PoE Integration – Scott Grebe
• What is Secure SD-WAN and How Can It Save Me Money? – Scott Grebe
• SonicWall’s Multi-Cloud Offering Extends to Hyper-V Private Clouds with Flexible Licensing – Srudi Dineshan
• Security for Multi-Cloud Strategies: How SonicWall Safely Guides Organizations to a Virtualized, Cloud-Connected World – David Chamberlin
• Cybersecurity for SMBs: Bundled Network Security Delivers Cost-Effective Protection – Steve Pataky

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