“T-Mobile has been a favorite target of hackers over the past few years, and they really need a complete rethink of security,” ZK Research principal analyst Zeus Kerravala said.

T-Mobile confirms "unauthorized access to some T-Mobile data occurred, however we have not yet determined that there is any personal customer data involved."

Microsoft bought RiskIQ; Sysdig acquired Apolicy; and the US Defense Department canceled its $10B JEDI contract with Microsoft.

Unit 42 researchers also detail a new trend they call “quadruple extortion,” as if double extortion ransomware attacks weren’t disturbing enough.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas talks cyber defense; Cisco expands its SD-WAN offerings; and Gartner says SASE has reached adolescence.

Tom Corn joined Open Systems as CPO; GitHub appointed Jacop DePriest as VP of security operations; and former IBM exec George Khatchadourian joined Kaloom as EVP of strategic partnerships.

The “Great Game” now is competing for the future of cyberspace between democratic and authoritarian governments, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said.

CISA director Jen Easterly announced the launch of the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) at Black Hat 2021.

Marvell acquired Innovium; Cisco security execs laid out five real-world tips enterprise IR teams should use to combat cyberattacks.

Businesses are “realizing that this is the nature of the game today that [I will get breached],” Trend Micro's Jon Clay said.

The vulnerability exploits a flaw in the FDM On-Box’s REST API, which enabled attackers to run arbitrary code on Cisco Firepower firewalls.

The great debate over “open” versus “closed” XDR has reached a fever pitch, but even vendors that claim an open XDR platform can’t seem to agree on what open

Cisco goes all hybrid with its "no return to office" policy, confronts unequal internet access; and VMware's former SVP of security Tom Corn joins Open Systems.

Juniper Networks posted strong Q2 revenues; Cisco goes all-in on hybrid work; and the supply-chain squeeze will limit Nokia’s growth through 2021.

Cisco’s current annual research and development budget is about $6 billion, and the bulk of this investment will help support hybrid work-related technologies.

As Google works to gain cloud market share and unseat Microsoft, Google CEO Sundar Pichai pointed to security as a competitive differentiator and “our strongest product portfolio.”

GitHub recruits Jacob DePriest as VP of security operations; Intel’s Rob Perez says confidential computing is all about “trust, but verify.”

“It’s time for Cyber Command to take the gloves off and proportionately disrupt and degrade the infrastructure and capabilities associated with the attackers,” VMware’s Tom Kellermann said.

Intel is rumored to be buying GlobalFoundries; T-Mobile and Lumen Technologies paired assets; and STIX and TAXII are approved as OASIS standards.

“We developed our own kill chain that’s fully compatible with MITRE ATT&CK, but also extends it,” Stellar Cyber VP Sam Jones said.

STIX powers the Cyber Threat Alliance’s threat-intelligence sharing platform and plays an important role in Open Cybersecurity Alliance’s push for security product interoperability.

“Organizations that fail to take appropriate actions to mitigate these vulnerabilities are at imminent risk of a targeted ransomware attack,” the security alert said.

Hackers, which Microsoft says in high confidence are based in China and have been dubbed DEV-0322, exploited the zero-day CVE-2021-35211 vulnerability.

'Just because you turn off the lights doesn’t mean the cockroaches aren’t there. You just can’t see them,' Cisco's Bob Everson said