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The Visibility Challenge Nobody Asked For
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (621+ words) Encryption is the bedrock of digital trust. It protects our financial transactions, secures our private conversations, and ensures data integrity across the web." For security professionals, encryption creates a different challenge. The very technology designed to protect users and data…...
8 XDR Questions From the Show Floor
2+ week, 9+ hour ago (655+ words) Whether I'm working the booth at Black Hat or speaking at BSides, the same questions seem to come up. Everyone wants to know about Extended Detection and Response (XDR). So let me take a chance to answer some of the…...
Another Year, Another Win: SE Labs" Recognizes Symantec" Endpoint Security
2+ week, 2+ day ago (411+ words) We're nearly halfway through 2026, but it's already been a busy year for us at Broadcom. The'announcement of Symantec" CBX'brewed up a storm of industry attention around a key idea: enterprise-grade security should be available for all, proven in the real…...
Hidden in Teams: Dragon Force Attackers Weaponize Microsoft Teams Relays to Stay Hidden
2+ week, 3+ day ago (423+ words) The attackers also weaponized DLL hijacking against the Virtual Box application. By forcing a legitimate, signed executable to load their malicious DLL, they bypassed security monitoring and achieved code execution with the high privileges of the trusted Virtual Box process....
Locking Down the Server
3+ week, 1+ day ago (815+ words) For years, security teams benefited from one critical advantage: time. Even when vulnerabilities existed, attackers needed to find, validate, and weaponize them before they could cause damage. That window of time, however small, gave defenders a chance to patch, compensate,…...
Threats Rise on a Tide of Global Unrest
3+ week, 4+ day ago (309+ words) Not only do these breaches decimate the bottom line for enterprises trying to stay afloat in a time of great change, they also destroy trust'a pillar even more valuable than money. Without it, institutions die. Lost trust is especially grave…...
When Nation-States Stop Caring About Size
3+ week, 6+ day ago (629+ words) Many organizations run on a quiet assumption: nation-state attackers go after governments and global enterprises, not companies their size. At the RSAC 2026 Conference, Symantec Fellow Eric Chien delivered a reality check: "There isn't a sector out there that isn't being…...
Espionage Campaign Targeted Stock Exchange Executive for Five Months
1+ mon, 8+ hour ago (602+ words) We do not normally publish on single-victim incidents, but the focus and operational discipline on display here, and the central role mailbox theft plays in espionage operations more broadly, makes this a useful illustration of what a targeted intrusion against…...
Data Security Is Having A Moment
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (455+ words) You can't explore cybersecurity lately without diving into a surge of conversations around AI governance, encrypted traffic, cloud-managed DLP, and data sovereignty. At first glance, these trends might look disconnected. Well, they're not. In fact, the way security professionals are…...
The Maximalism Trap: When More Becomes Too Much
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (195+ words) That's because maximalism without intention is just messy: It's easy to see how stack maximalism overburdens security teams, driving up cost and labor. More comes at a cost in time, money, and SOC morale. When a room goes from maximalist…...