3 Things to Consider When Risk Ranking Your Applications
Almost every security lead I speak to would love to have more security resources. Whether it’s people to conduct threat modeling, manual code reviews, or simply someone who can scrub the false positives from the blizzard of information they receive each day, everyone seems to be in need of an extra hand. While more people…
Enhancing Enterprise Security for Ransomware Detection
Ransomware is a profitable business model for cyber criminals with 2016 payments closed at the billon dollar mark. According to a recent survey by IBM, nearly 70% of executives hit by ransomware have paid to get their data back. Those survey results do not include smaller organizations and consumers who are also paying to get their data…
Satan RaaS Promises Large Gains With Zero Coding Needed
A newly discovered family of ransomware is being offered via the Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) business model, allowing cybercriminals to easily customize their own versions of the malware, researchers explain. Dubbed Satan, the new ransomware family was discovered by security researcher Xylitol and is available for any wannabe criminal, as the service only requires the creation of…
JPMorgan Hack: One More Pleads Guilty For Operating Bitcoin Exchange
Ricardo Hill allegedly operated Coin.mx which exchanged millions of dollars into bitcoin to support the hack scheme. Ricardo Hill of Florida has pleaded guilty to being involved in an illegal bitcoin exchange to support a massive hacking scheme disclosed in 2014 that compromised over 83 million JPMorgan account, Reuters reports. Hill, who is one of…
Women in cybersecurity: Cisco, IBM, Symantec help pave the way
Women make up roughly half the world’s population, they hold around 50 percent of jobs in the U.S. workforce and fill 25 percent of IT jobs, yet they account for only 10 percent of the positions in cybersecurity. Females in the field are uniting to help move the needle on those numbers towards 50 percent…
Trump nominee suggests IRS cybersecurity and staffing boosts
Cybersecurity and staffing upgrades at the Internal Revenue Service appear to be in store, assuming Steven Mnuchin is confirmed as Treasury Secretary in the new Trump Administration. Mnuchin, a former CIO and executive vice president for Goldman Sachs, told senators in a five-hour confirmation hearing on Thursday that he is “very concerned about the lack…
Corporate Legal Counsels Fret Over Cybersecurity
A majority of in-house legal counsels at US corporations view data breaches and cross-border data privacy regulations as among their biggest e-discovery related legal risks. BDO Consulting, a company that provides financial, business, and technology advisory services, recently surveyed over 100 senior legal executives at organizations ranging in size from $100 million to over $5…
Verified Twitter accounts compromised, get busy spamming
Verified Twitter accounts tend to be a little more secure than those belonging to non-verified users due to the amount of extra hoop jumping required to get one of those ticks in the first place. A number of security requirements, including providing a phone number and setting up 2FA, are all things a would-be verified…
BrandPost: Threat Intelligence: How To Find The Real Threats In Time
Every day we are bombarded by mountains of threat data from a variety of sources. While most of this data is completely irrelevant and needs no attention, we can’t afford to miss the next attack that could be devastating to our business. According to a Ponemon Research Report, 70% of security professionals say there is simply…
Encrypted email service ProtonMail is now accessible over Tor
The creators of encrypted email service ProtonMail have set up a server that’s only accessible over the Tor anonymity network as a way to fight possible censorship attempts in some countries. ProtonMail was created by computer engineers who met while working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). The service provides end-to-end encrypted email…