Warwick Ashford, security editor at ComputerWeekly had an interesting observation after reading CyberArk's latest cyber threat report: "Organisations are failing to learn from cyber ...
Antivirus companies are not going to like this. Microsoft blogged that their Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) security service soon will be coming to Win7 and Win8.1 ...
A new ransomware variant called Annabelle has been discovered, which seems to have been designed to ‘show off the skills’ of the developer who created it, by being as difficult to deal ...
Zeljika at HelpnetSecurity had a great summary of Wombat's latest State of the Phish report: "Training employees to spot phishing emails, messages and phone calls can’t be done just once ...
Sunil Shenoi, Seth Traxler and Gianni Cutri are partners at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and advise clients on a variety of data security issues, including responding to data security ...
February 22, the attack hit CDOT’s computers, encrypted files and demanded to pay the ransom in Bitcoins. Security officials shut down more than 2,000 employee computers while they ...
Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Jay Clayton warned today insider trading by executives from undisclosed hacks and weak protections can pose cyber security risks to the reputation ...
The Register in the UK reported: "An extraordinary 43 per cent of all attempted online account logins are malicious, Akamai claims in its latest internet security report. "Credential ...
Someone on Reddit described how he was the victim of a very sophisticated social engineering attack. Wow, this is crafty. This is the story!: "I have different passwords for every website ...
IBM has uncovered sophisticated CEO Fraud campaigns—aka Business Email Compromise—which are successfully targeting Fortune 500 companies. On Wednesday, researchers from IBM's X-Force ...
Let's open that doc file and watch the Matrix again. Catalin Cimpanu at Bleepingcomputer had the scoop on this concerning news: "Cryptojacking scripts that mine Monero via JavaScript code ...
Trend Micro has released its annual security roundup, and it shows several interesting trends that will likely continue into 2018. There is bad news and worse news, with a little bit of ...
Few organizations are highly confident in their ability to manage the risk of a cyber-attack, despite viewing cybersecurity as a top risk management priority, according to a survey ...
Just when you think they cannot sink any lower, criminal internet scum are now exploiting the Parkland tragedy in Florida. Unfortunately, from this spot I have been warning about these ...
Bradley Barth at SCMedia nailed it when he wrote: "No, NSA whistleblower and U.S. fugitive Edward Snowden did not just purchase a 2 terabyte storage plan for iCloud, nor has he moved back ...
Ray Schultz at MediaPost had a great summary of some troublesome news: "Some of the world’s most popular websites are also the most dangerous when in comes to phishing attacks, according ...
The number of Microsoft vulnerabilities has more than doubled in the last five years, according to the fifth annual Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report from Avecto. The global security ...
Spam distributors are using a new technique to infect users with malware, and while this phishing attack relies on having users open Word documents, it does not involve social engineering ...
