Month: December 2021

Network Security

Issued by: Help Net Security

The fraud detection and prevention (FDP) market is expected to surpass $100 billion by 2027, as reported in a research study by Global Market Insights. The growing adoption of mobile phones and digital banking applications is proliferating the market growth. The growing instances of cyberthreats and money laundering across sectors are driving the need for…

Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

I’d like to discuss the right to work. Security professionals have that right, and unfortunately, from time to time, certain individuals, organizations, or companies try to take that right away. In this piece specifically, I’d like to focus on the issue of non-competes. I understand that companies have employees sign non-competes. This is a common…

Application Security, Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

The State Auditor’s Office reassured 60,000 state employees on Monday that their pay would be deposited on Friday, WSAZ-TV reported. State officials learned two weeks ago that the attack took West Virginia’s payroll time and leave accounting system off line. Since then, the auditor’s staff has worked with payroll administrators in affected state agencies to…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

A file containing the personal identity card numbers, employment and salary data of some 637,000 people became public this week and was widely shared through messaging apps. Prime Minister Edi Rama said the leak is being investigated. “According to a preliminary analysis, it looks more like an internal infiltration rather than an outside … cyber-attack,”…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Help Net Security

On Thursday, December 9, 2021, my young, Minecraft-addicted kids were still completely oblivious of the Log4j vulnerabilities in their favorite game. Then again, so was every cybersecurity professional in the world. That all changed when the Apache Log4j project announced CVE-2021-44228 (aka Log4Shell) – a zero-day vulnerability in Log4j’s standardized method of handling log files…