Manipulation tactics that you fall for in phishing attacks
It’s 6 p.m. on a Friday. Just as you finish packing up for the day, an email from your boss pops up on your phone asking why an urgent payment didn’t go out earlier in the week. He’s tied up in a business dinner, so he needs you to wire payment to a specific vendor…
Better security needed to harness the positive potential of AI, mitigate risks of attacks
Despite heightened interest in enterprise deployment of artificial intelligence, only 40 percent of respondents to ISACA’s second annual Digital Transformation Barometer express confidence that their organizations can accurately assess the security of systems based on AI and machine learning. This becomes especially striking given the potential for serious consequences from maliciously trained AI; survey respondents…
Websites Attack Attempts Rose in Q2
New data shows attackers are trying to sneak past malware scanners on websites using stealthy hacks such as cryptojacking and malicious JavaScript. Website security service provider SiteLock analyzed data from 6 million customer websites for the second quarter of 2018 and found that a website, on average, suffers 58 attack attempts per day – or…
83% of SMB owners have no cash put aside to deal with the fallout from a cyber attack
Small businesses are leaving themselves exposed to significant financial risk from cybercrime by not having adequate measures in place to recover in the event of a cyber attack. That’s according to the findings of InsuranceBee’s Cyber Survey, which asked more than 1,000 SMBs how prepared they are to deal with cybercrime. Although the average cost…
Why humans are necessary to the threat hunting process
For thousands of years, humans have worked to collect intelligence on their enemies. Intelligence gathering is not a new practice; in fact, it is one of the oldest war tactics dating back to biblical times, when warlords and army commanders used it to gain advantages over their rivals. However, the methods have changed as new…
Google’s Android Team Finds Serious Flaw in Honeywell Devices
Honeywell’s handheld computers are advertised as devices that combine the advantages provided by consumer PDAs with high-end industrial mobile computers. These rugged devices run Android or Windows operating systems and they provide a wide range of useful functions and connectivity features, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and compatibility with Cisco products. The devices are used worldwide in…
Data privacy automation: Unlock your most valuable asset
In years past, data privacy was the purview of the chief privacy officer. However, increasingly, CTOs are being tasked with operationalizing a data privacy solution for the company. That’s because data privacy is fundamentally a data issue, with privacy being an outcome of a comprehensive data protection strategy. In a world of exploding data, it’s…
Analysis of half-a-billion emails reveals malware-less email attacks are on the rise
FireEye analyzed over half-a-billion emails from 1H 2018, and found that 32% of email traffic seen in the first half of 2018 was considered ‘clean’ and actually delivered to an inbox. Their report also found that 1 in every 101 emails had malicious intent. When compared to the previous six-month period, the changes in both…
Enhancing cloud security for AWS deployments
So many organizations are migrating their entire IT infrastructure to the cloud and adopting a “cloud first” approach. With this approach, organizations cut down on overall IT business costs, while increasing scalability, modernizing their IT infrastructure and enabling collaboration among development teams to help solve complex challenges. The most popular cloud computing platform on the…
Phished credentials caused twice as many breaches than malware in the past year
Personal device use for remote work poses the biggest security risk to organisations safeguarding their increasingly mobile and cloud-based IT environment, according to a new survey of 100 UK-based senior IT security professionals. Conducted from March to May by Rant, the survey found 58 percent of respondents believe that network access from non-corporate and personally-owned…