YL Ventures expands advisory board with 24 cybersecurity executives
YL Ventures, the Silicon Valley headquartered seed-stage venture capital firm focusing on Israeli cybersecurity innovation, announced a major expansion of its Venture Advisory …
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Major websites still fail to steer users towards better passwords
The death of passwords is predicted with regular frequency, but we’re still to see it actually happen. It’s possible that it will happen one day but, in the …
Diffy: A triage tool for cloud-centric incident response
The Netflix Security Intelligence and Response Team (SIRT) has released Diffy, an open source triage tool that allows digital forensics and incident response teams to quickly …
Microsoft tops list of brands impersonated by phishers
The number one brand spoofed by phishers in Q2 2018 in North America was Microsoft, says email security company Vade Secure. The company credits the surging of adoption of …
Netflix, Dropbox promise not to sue security researchers, with caveats
Netflix and Dropbox have both noted recently that they won’t sue security researchers who find and disclose vulnerabilities in their products. The only caveat is: the …
Phishers target Netflix users, ask for info and photo of their ID
Should you send Netflix a selfie in which you hold your ID card to get your account reinstated? The answer is an emphatic no, but each one of us knows at least one person who …
Artful Netflix-themed phishing campaign can fool many
A recently spotted Netflix-themed phishing email campaign is so well crafted that it’s difficult for many less tech-savvy users to spot the scam. Extremely convincing …
Stethoscope spurs employees to implement better security practices
Every now and then, Netflix open sources some of the security tools created by its coders. The latest example of this is Stethoscope, a web application that collects …
Picky ransomware targets specific subset of would-be Netflix users
Aspiring Netflix users who don’t want to actually pay for the popular video on demand service are being targeted with a new type of ransomware. Detected as Netix by …
Use Chaos Monkey to push engineers to build resilient cloud services
Netflix’s engineering team is good at sharing the tools they create, and keeping them updated to serve different needs. Chaos Monkey is the latest offering that received …
