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Issued by: Dark Reading

BEC Attacks Far More Lucrative than Ransomware over Past 3 Years

BEC fraud netted cyberthieves five times more profit than ransomware over a three-year period, according to Cisco’s midyear report released today. Despite all the recent attention paid to ransomware, cybercriminals walked away with $5.3 billion from business email compromise (BEC) attacks compared with $1 billion for ransomware over a three-year stretch, according to Cisco’s 2017…

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Issued by: Security Week

Stepping Up Cybersecurity This Summer

It’s summertime, and everyone’s on vacation. What could possibly go wrong? For the security team, the answer is “plenty.” Summer brings a set of new challenges to security organizations including employees taking more time off, often with their corporate laptops. Our own security personnel are taking vacation time, too, which makes staffing the security operations…

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Issued by: CSO

Kaspersky Lab denies leaked emails prove it has been working with Russia’s FSB

While the Trump administration is deciding whether to remove Kaspersky Lab from the General Services Administration’s list of vendors whose products government agencies are allowed to use, Bloomberg Businessweek declared Kaspersky Lab “has been working with Russian intelligence.” The news report alleges that the relationship between Kaspersky Lab and the Kremlin is closer than the cybersecurity firm…

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Issued by: Help Net Security

Five crucial ways to help keep a system safe from harm

We’re living in an incredible age of technology, invention and innovation. It’s hard to imagine that just a short time ago we couldn’t order groceries for delivery from our phones, or ask into the air any question, to be answered immediately by a robot sitting on a countertop. “Okay, Google — what do I have…

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Issued by: Help Net Security

Security’s blind spot: The long-term state of exception

It seems every major hack is accompanied by the pointing of fingers. And there are plenty of places to point them: the servers that weren’t patched, the retailer who hadn’t finished setting up an intrusion detection system, the high-ranking official who used his personal email to store secrets, the critical application with unfixed security holes…

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Issued by: Security Intelligence

How Hotel Cybersecurity Keeps Guests and Data Secure

Hotels need cybersecurity: Although they don’t have the volume of transactions that big box retail stores do, their transactions are generally larger, and their guests have more at stake than just their groceries. But the personal information hotels store is only part of what’s at risk. Hospitality organizations need to understand their vulnerabilities, as well…

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Issued by: Help Net Security

Week in review: Evaluating AI-based cyber security systems, how CIA hit air-gapped computers

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: How the CIA gained access to air-gapped computers A new WikiLeaks release of documents believed to have been stolen from the CIA show the intelligence agency’s capability to infect air-gapped computers and networks via booby-trapped USB sticks. Hackers extorted a cool $1…

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Issued by: Security Week

Configuration Error Embarrasses UK’s Cyber Essentials

The UK government’s Cyber Essentials scheme has suffered an embarrassing incident; but one that can hardly be called a breach and certainly not a cyber-attack. A configuration error in the underlying software platform exposed the email addresses of consultancies registered with the scheme — nothing more. Cyber Essentials is a UK government-backed certification scheme designed…