BEC scammers actively targeting Fortune 500 companies

Nigerian scammers are targeting Fortune 500 companies, and have already stolen millions of dollars from some of them, IBM Security researchers have found. Their strategy is well known: they take over or impersonate a trusted user’s email account to target companies that conduct international wire transfers, and trick accounts payable personnel into wiring money into…

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…

IKANOW 2.0 Delivers First Customizable Information Security Analytics Platform

Reston, VA — IKANOW today announced the first fully customizable information security analytics platform with enterprise scalability and multi-tenancy. There are many packaged solutions that claim big data analytics capabilities but simply don’t meet the scalability requirements of large enterprises nor do they allow for easy customization that companies need. Built on open sources technologies,…