Privacy groups claim FBI hacking operation went too far
Privacy advocates are claiming in court that an FBI hacking operation to take down a child pornography site was unconstitutional and violated international law. That’s because the operation involved the FBI hacking 8,700 computers in 120 countries, based on a single warrant, they said.
Are companies doing enough on the IoT security front?
We continue to hear dire warnings about the inherent security risks of the Internet of Things (IoT), and indeed IoT-related incidents are happening. With many companies beginning to capture IoT data from connected devices, a key question is are they doing enough to ensure that data and networks are secure? If security executives thought they…
Keep Employees Secure, Wherever They Are
As workers grow more dispersed, organizations need to focus on three areas to maintain security. Nearly 80% of professionals work remotely at least one day a week, and 1.55 billion others are expected to work outside the boundaries of the corporate office by 2020, according to Frost & Sullivan research. This shift to a mobile…
Gmail Delivers Spoofed Messages Without Warning, Researchers Find
Spoofed emails could easily land in user’s Gmail inboxes without even warning them of suspicious activity, security researchers have discovered. While spam is normally used to deliver malicious documents or links to unsuspecting users, spoofed emails have a bigger chance of luring potential victims, because they are likely to click on a link or open…
How AI is stopping criminal hacking in real time
Almost every day, there’s news about a massive data leak — a breach at Yahoo that reveals millions of user accounts, a compromise involving Gmail phishing scams. Security professionals are constantly moving the chess pieces around, but it can be a losing battle. Yet, there is one ally that has emerged in recent years. Artificial…
The Role of the Network in Preventing Dyn 2.0
Much has been said about the DDoS attacks on Dyn and the subsequent security issues surrounding IoT devices. In late 2016, hackers exploited hundreds of thousands of IoT devices, such as security cameras and DVRs, to cause massive internet outages over a prolonged period of time. While this attack has resulted in an uproar of…
Why do I care about someone else’s data breach?
Because as the size of your organization increases, the probability that an individual employee’s company email is in that breach rises to 1. That lone employee is going to be suffering some unfortunate impacts, from identity theft, financial scams, blackmail, and even death threats (as seen in the Ashley Madison breach). There’s an organizational impact…
A New Mantra For Cybersecurity: ‘Simulate, Simulate, Simulate!’
What security teams can learn from the Apollo 13 space program, a global pandemic, and major infrastructure disruptions to identify their best responses to attacks. Over the long holidays in December (and thanks to the massive California storms) I had the chance to re-watch some great movies, including Apollo 13 – one of my all-time…
Threat Actors will come up with new Targeted Attack Tactics that Circumvent Current Anti-evasion Solutions
In the Trend Micro 2017 Security Predictions report, we cover many of the threats that organizations will have to deal with this year and none could be more challenging that a targeted attack. We recently saw a report from the Identity Theft Resource Center which said 2016 had the most data breaches in US history….
IDG Contributor Network: What football teaches us about cybersecurity
This idea of football practice and cybersecurity practice came to me via a conversation with one of my co-workers at Verodin, an SE in Texas named Critt Golden. Critt said it very simply in true Texas succinctness, “In football if you don’t practice you don’t win and in cybersecurity if you don’t practice you don’t…