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Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like.shop,top and.xyz

Krebs on Security

Currently, there are around 2,500 registrars authorized to sell domains by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the California nonprofit that oversees the domain industry. ICANN’s proposed next round envisions accepting applications for new gTLDs in 2026. “But they act a lot more like the latter.”

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MY TAKE: ‘Network Detection and Response’ emerges as an Internet of Things security stopgap

The Last Watchdog

There’s no stopping the Internet of Things now. trillion by 2026, up from $190 billion in 2018. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW Related: The promise, pitfalls of IoT Companies have commenced the dispersal of IoT systems far and wide.

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Thousands of Data Center Management Apps Exposed to Internet

eSecurity Planet

Tens of thousands of applications that are critical to the operations of data centers around the globe are exposed to the internet, with many secured with default factory passwords, posing a significant cyber risk to enterprises worldwide. percent a year through 2026, when it will hit $4.4 This is laziness at its worst.”.

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RSAC Fireside Chat: Turning full attention to locking down the security of ‘open source’

The Last Watchdog

Open source coding has come to dominate business software applications; rising to comprise 75 percent of audited code bases and putting open source on a trajectory to become a $50 billion subsector of technology by 2026. Mend and other SCA solution vendors are stepping up their game to counter this trend. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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NEW TECH SNAPSHOT: The role of ‘MSSPs’ in helping businesses manage cybersecurity

The Last Watchdog

The global market for managed security services is estimated to be growing at a compound annual rate of 14 percent and should climb to $44 billion by 2026 , up from $23 billion in 2021, says research firm MarketsandMarkets. A drill-down on MSSPs is coming tomorrow (Sept. 7) in a LW news analysis column and podcast. Stay tuned.

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Demand, CyberInsurance, and Automation/AI Are the Future of InfoSec

Daniel Miessler

2026-) Cyberinsurance will ascend as the primary mechanism for making cybersecurity-related product and service decisions within companies. Every country will have massive collections of internet and internal-facing systems that are continuously scanning and monitoring everything it owns.

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Black Hat insights: WAFs are getting much more dynamic making them well-suited to protect SMBs

The Last Watchdog

And, indeed, the global WAF market is growing annually at an estimated 17 percent clip ; companies are projected to spend $8 billion on WAF services by 2026, up from $3.2 Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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