Curated Daily News for August 18, 2020

Today’s topics include: A new Struts attack PoC on GitHub, Understanding rootkits, Vulnerability prioritization is a major issue, Container threat modeling, and Security’s data accuracy problem.

• PoC Exploit Targeting Apache Struts Surfaces on GitHub
• DEF CON 28 Safe Mode – Bill Demirkapi’s ‘Demystifying Modern Windows Rootkits’
• The IT Backbone of Cybercrime
• Establishing a Secure Long-Term Workforce Outside the Four Walls
• Firms Still Struggle to Prioritize Security Vulnerabilities
• New Ponemon Report: A Programmatic Approach to Vulnerability Management for Hybrid Multicloud
• Reported Breach Count for H1 2020 Lowest in Five Years
• Researcher Discloses 9 Leaky GitHub Repos Affecting 200K U.S. Residents – ‘And Possibly Many More’
• Threat Modeling in a Container Environment
• New Report Examines the Pandemic’s Impact on Cyber Security
• How to Ensure Secure and Complete Data Destruction
• Garbage In, Gospel Out: The Security Problem of Data Accuracy