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Lessons learned from the many crypto hacks

March 29, 2019 9:02 am

Advertisement The one poignant lesson that crypto investors globally have learned over the years is that despite the immutable, impenetrable nature of the technology behind cryptocurrencies and blockchain, their crypto investments and transactions are not secure. 2018, for example, witnessed some of the largest crypto exchange hacks globally. Not to mention, the alarming volatility in...

Average DDoS attack sizes decrease 85% due to FBI’s shutdown of DDoS-for-hire websites

March 21, 2019 7:45 am

Advertisement The FBI’s shutdown of the 15 largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) for hire vendors (booters) reduced the overall number of attacks worldwide by nearly 11 percent compared to the same period last year. Along with the fewer total attacks, the average size decreased by 85 percent as did the maximum attack size by 24 percent,...

Data breach reports delayed as organizations struggle to achieve GDPR compliance

March 15, 2019 8:37 am

Advertisement Businesses routinely delayed data breach disclosure and failed to provide important details to the ICO in the year prior to the GDPR’s enactment. On average, businesses waited three weeks after discovery to report a breach to the ICO, while the worst offending organization waited 142 days. The vast majority (91%) of reports to the...

Framing supply chain attacks

Issued by: Help Net Security

The increase in the demand for innovative software has effectively reshaped the software development industry itself. Today, speed and agility are paramount and development teams are pushed to deliver highly advanced applications in record time — which means that writing every single line of code...

Backdoors inevitably create vulnerabilities that can be exploited by malicious actors

Issued by: Help Net Security

73 percent of IT security professionals believe countries with government-mandated encryption backdoors are more susceptible to nation-state attacks. The Venafi survey on government-mandated encryption backdoors evaluated the opinions of 517 IT security professionals attending the RSA Conference 2019. “This is a tense moment for industry...

79% of organizations want a federal privacy law amid lack of compliance

Issued by: Help Net Security

There is a significant enthusiasm for a federal privacy law amid organizations’ lack of ability to comply with data privacy rules stemming from both mushrooming government regulations and complex data sharing agreements between companies. Organizations are also overconfident in knowing where private data resides, and...

Encryption deployment increases as organizations struggle to address compliance requirements

Issued by: Help Net Security

As organizations embrace the cloud and new digital initiatives such as the IoT, blockchain and digital payments the use of trusted cryptography to protect their applications and sensitive information is at an all-time high. With corporate data breaches making the headlines on an almost daily...

Organizations investing in security analytics and machine learning to tackle cyberthreats

Issued by: Help Net Security

IT security’s greatest inhibitor to success is contending with too much security data. To address this challenge, 47 percent of IT security professionals acknowledged their organization’s intent to acquire advanced security analytics solutions that incorporate machine learning (ML) technology within the next 12 months. Such...

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How to build an effective vulnerability management program

Worldwide spending on security solutions expected to continue growing

90% of consumers value additional security measures to verify mobile-based transactions

IoT devices using CoAP increasingly used in DDoS attacks

92% of organizations rank users as their primary security concern

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