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Verizon's 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)

Verizon's 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)

Chuck Davis
Cybersecurity News

Reports released annually by cybersecurity companies are rich resources for cybersecurity professionals, academics, journalists and really anyone who is interested in cybersecurity. Among the dozens that are released each year, arguably the most famous of these is the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, also known as the DBIR. This week, Between The Hacks eagerly reviewed the newly released 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. At 119-pages, this is the 13th edition of the DBIR and it is the most extensive with more than 32,000 incidents, 3,950 of which were confirmed breaches. If you’re strapped for time, or if you’re more of a TL;DR person and the thought of 119 pages of security stats turns your eyelids into weighted blankets, fear not, there is also a 19-page DBIR Executive Summary available for download.

Obsolete Computers Used in U.S. Elections: Kill Chain-The Cyber War on America's Elections

Obsolete Computers Used in U.S. Elections: Kill Chain-The Cyber War on America's Elections

Chuck Davis
Reviews

“Voting is our capability to have a peaceful transfer of power. If you don’t have that, the alternatives are revolutions.” - Harri Hursti

Last week, HBO released Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections , a documentary that covers a 15-year analysis of voting machines in the United States. Many of the voting machines used in U.S. elections are vulnerable to attack and they are being targeted by nation states and other threat actors. Follow cybersecurity expert Harri Hursti in the HBO Documentary Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections , as he explains and demonstrates the weaknesses in many voting machines. In the documentary, Hursti is described as, “one of the world’s top experts on hacking techniques and voting security. For decades, he has been investigating vulnerabilities in U.S. election systems.” states the documentary. In addition to Hursti, the film features an impressive roster of cybersecurity experts including, Jeff Moss, Matt Blaze, Sandy Clark, and Mikko Hypponen, to name a few.