Don’t Leave Home Without These Five Travel Security Tips
It’s vacation time for many of us, and that means it’s Christmas for criminals. In their eagerness to experience all the wonders of leisure destinations, travelers are prone to overlooking risks to their physical and digital security. Crooks know this, which is why they target people carrying cameras, sporting backpacks or exhibiting other signs of…
APT3 hackers linked to Chinese intelligence
The APT3 hacker group, which has been attacking government and defense industry targets since 2010, has been linked to the Chinese Ministry of State Security, according to a report by Recorded Future. Other attackers have been linked to the Chinese military, but this is the first time a group has been connected to Chinese intelligence,…
Protecting your cloud from ransomware
For enterprises that use the cloud, the key to being protected starts with understanding the layers that make up the components of their cloud stack. These different layers create multiple potential targets, and for the informed, they each represent a piece of the cloud environment that can be secured against potential threats. Ransomware doesn’t have…
BrandPost: Countering the risks of cyberattacks posed by mobile apps
We’ve all become somewhat jaded when hearing about the billions of mobile devices being used by corporate employees and individual consumers (with individual devices increasingly used across both business and personal settings). Somewhat less well known – and still surprising – is the number of mobile apps active in the typical corporation. One recent assessment by Skyhigh Networks found that the average organization uses 1,427 cloud services, each represented…
What modern cyber attacks actually look like
Sometimes, your data protection tools may actually be providing a false sense of security. A Venafi survey of 500 CIOs found that they were wasting millions of dollars on cyber security solutions that couldn’t differentiate between malicious and authorized keys and certificates, Information Age reported. As a result, 90 percent of respondents said they expect their organization to…
3 overlooked endpoints for cyber attacks and how to protect them
You probably think you have endpoint security covered. After all, organizations have been securing end-user desktop and laptop computers for decades with anti-virus software and other cyber security programs. Because of these steps, you think you’re not at risk of an endpoint-initiated attack. However, NTT Security’s 2015 Global Threat Intelligence Report found that 70 percent…
Data breaches: Playing by a new set of rules?
The regulator can come in and fine your organization. In fact, it could get even worst because you will become the victim of abnormal churn rate. You know that term to describe the number of customers that will leave you because they just don’t trust you anymore. Within the last year we have seen examples…
HackerOne Offers Free Service for Open Source Projects
Service aims to provide efficient security programs but projects must meet certain rules to qualify for it. HackerOne has announced free professional service for open-source projects aimed at providing support to project developers for running efficient and productive security programs. Called HackerOne Community Edition, this service will help open-source projects with “vulnerability submission, coordination, dupe…
Survey Finds Disconnect Between Security Strategy and Execution
Report from Intel Security and CSIS discovers 93% of businesses have cybersecurity strategies, but only 49% fully implement them.
Attackers thrive in a fluid market, while bureaucracy constrains defenders
A new global report from Intel Security and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) reveals three categories of misaligned incentives: corporate structures versus the free flow of criminal enterprises; strategy versus implementation; and senior executives versus those in implementation roles. Based on interviews and a global survey of 800 cybersecurity professionals from five…