Month: November 2016

Malware & Threats

Issued by: CIO Security

How to protect your marketing team amidst security threats

Unfortunately, businesses have never been more exposed to threats of cyber-attacks than now. As more and more information is shared online, hackers are enhancing their efforts and targeting vulnerable businesses. The good news is that there are also more security solutions available than ever before. By implementing them in the appropriate manner, you can keep…

Application Security

Issued by: CIO Security

Yahoo investigating if insiders knew of hack

Yahoo said investigators were looking into the possibility that some people within the company knew at the time about the late 2014 theft of information of at least 500 million user accounts. Law enforcement authorities on Monday also “began sharing certain data that they indicated was provided by a hacker who claimed the information was…

Software Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

The 7 Types Of Security Jobs, According To NIST

Making sense of the complex. That’s what NIST’s National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) aims to do in developing the draft NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NCWF). Bill Newhouse, NICE deputy director and lead author of the draft document, said in developing the NCWF, NIST synthesized the diverse field of cybersecurity by identifying seven categories of…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Help Net Security

Increasing number of financial institutions falling prey to cyber attacks

66.2 percent of financial organizations faced at least one cyber-security attack in the last year, according to MetricStream Research. The report, based on a survey conducted in July 2016, features the perspectives of C-level information security professionals in over 60 banking and financial services firms across the globe. The respondents represented financial enterprises of multiple…

Application Security

Issued by: Trend Micro Blog

The November 2016 Security Update Review

Adobe released two updates this month. The more critical of the two patches addresses nine CVEs in the Flash player. This comes just two weeks after Adobe issued an emergency Flash update to fix an issue currently being exploited. We’ll see this exploit later in a Windows update, too. Today’s Flash update is not being…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: CSO

7 steps to start a bug bounty program

Vulnerability assessment and identification strategies have evolved to include the concept of crowd sourced security testing through bug bounty programs. While bug bounty programs have been used for over 20 years, widespread adoption by enterprise organizations has just begun to take off within the last few. The bug bounty path, paved by tech giants, is…

Software Security

Issued by: Security Intelligence

Getting Primed to Adopt Cognitive Security Solutions

President Barack Obama recently sat down for an interview on emerging technologies with Wired Magazine. “Traditionally, when we think about security and protecting ourselves, we think in terms of armor or walls,” he said. “Increasingly, I find myself looking to medicine and thinking about viruses, antibodies … It means that we’ve got to think differently…