CSO Data Protection News Feed

• Improved incident response planning is a business necessity
  Chief information security officers (CISOs) understand the importance of having an incident response plan in place to help decrease the impact of a cyberattack. That’s because despite increased awareness and evolving security technology and practices, cyber threats continue to grow in both volume and sophistication. Microsoft security researchers have seen a […]
• Windows path conversion weirdness enables unprivileged rootkit behavior
  Attackers can take advantage of how Windows converts file paths between the traditional DOS format to the more modern NT format in order to achieve rootkit-based capabilities such as hiding files and processes without any special privileges, a security researcher has discovered. The security implications of this DOS-to-NT path conversion were found by Or Yai […]