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Cybersecurity is everyone’s responsibility. In a world where the cyberthreat landscape continues growing rapidly in size and sophistication, that’s the key message driving the focus of 2019’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) this October. Held every October, NCSAM is a collaborative effort between government and the private sector to promote cybersecurity awareness and the need…

Cryptojacking Fluctuates Along with Cryptocurrency Values

It’s hard to know who tracks the value of cryptocurrencies more closely. Is it the investors who own the virtual coins, or the criminals who hijack computing power to mine them? For their part, the criminals clearly do follow cryptocurrency values. Symantec, as detailed in its annual Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR), tracked a decline…

Surge in Blended Attacks Stirs New Cyber Worries

Symantec, NH-ISAC partner on blended threat workshop series as healthcare industry deals with alarming rise in number of incidents. It sounds like a nightmare: A targeted piece of malware infects computers and devices, temporarily shutting down critical technologies used in the healthcare community. As the malware begins to become contained, a natural disaster hits the…

PowerShell Threats Grow Further and Operate in Plain Sight

The preinstalled and versatile Windows PowerShell has become one of the most popular choices in cyber criminals’ arsenals. We have observed an increase of 661 percent in computers where malicious PowerShell activity was blocked from the second half of 2017 to the first half of 2018—a clear indication that attackers are still growing the use…

Cloud-Delivered Network Security No Longer Optional

The adoption of the public cloud is driving a fundamental change in the way organizations connect remote users and distributed sites to their networks and applications. But as we’ve seen during other great times of change, tech transitions are tricky and always raise new security concerns. These are the security concerns of the Cloud Generation….

Keys to Crafting a Winning Mobile Security: Customers Weigh In

Experience is a valuable teacher, especially when you’re able to learn lessons from others who have taken similar journeys. That’s why we recently polled some of our most successful mobile security customers. They had valuable stories to share about the process they underwent evaluating and implementing mobile security solutions. We wanted to know the backstory:…