July 24, 2023
Via: Dark ReadingThe average cost per data breach for business in 2023 jumped to $4.45 million, a 15% increase over three years. But instead of investing in cybersecurity, 57% of breached organizations told IBM they were inclined to just pass those costs […]
October 21, 2022
Via: Help Net SecurityIBM is extending its portfolio of data resilience solutions with the introduction of the IBM Diamondback Tape Library, a high-density archival storage solution that is physically air-gapped to help protect against ransomware and other cyber threats in hybrid cloud environments. […]
Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware
May 23, 2022
Via: Security WeekThe use of crypters to obfuscate malware in order to evade antivirus detection is not new, but TrickBot’s operators – which are known as Wizard Spider, ITG23, or the Trickbot Group – took this practice to a new level, by […]
Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware
October 27, 2021
Via: Security WeekThe company says ransomware has been by far the top attack type launched against OT organizations to date in 2021, accounting for 32% of attacks. The Ryuk ransomware has been involved in many of these attacks and IBM says there […]
Threats & Malware, Vulnerabilities
October 14, 2021
Via: Help Net SecurityContinuity issued a research report which provided an analysis of the vulnerabilities and misconfigurations of enterprise storage systems. The findings revealed that storage systems have a significantly weaker security posture than the other two layers of IT infrastructure: compute or […]
August 26, 2021
Via: Computer WeeklyAmazon, Apple, Google, IBM and Microsoft have collectively made a series of commitments to support US president Joe Biden’s “whole-of-nation” effort to address cyber security threats against US citizens, organisations and critical infrastructure operators. The undertakings were detailed following a […]
Threats & Malware, Vulnerabilities
April 2, 2021
Via: Security WeekManufacturing and energy became the second and third most targeted industries last year, respectively. Retail and professional services rounded up the top five most targeted sectors, IBM says. In the latest installment of their annual X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, IBM […]
December 3, 2020
Via: Security IntelligenceAt the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, IBM Security X-Force created a threat intelligence task force dedicated to tracking down COVID-19 cyber threats against organizations that are keeping the vaccine supply chain moving. As part of these efforts, our team […]
July 14, 2020
Via: Security IntelligenceBefore the coronavirus pandemic hit, working from home used to be a novelty for many employees. According to a June 2020 IBM Security and Morning Consult “Work From Home Survey,” 80% of respondents say they worked from home either rarely […]
June 16, 2020
Via: Security WeekFounded in 2017, the Santa Clara, California-based Spanugo aims to help organizations protect IT assets across the enterprise hybrid cloud, through automating resource discovery, configuration analysis and management, and the implementation of security best practices. Spanugo’s technology allows organizations to […]
Threats & Malware, Vulnerabilities
June 9, 2020
Via: Security WeekA security researcher who uses the online moniker tint0 discovered in April that WebSphere Application Server, IBM’s Java EE-based runtime environment, is affected by three potentially serious deserialization issues. Two of the flaws have been rated critical and they can […]
Cyber-crime, Mobile, Mobile security, Phishing
April 9, 2020
Via: Security IntelligenceIBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) researchers recently went down the rabbit hole of a physical iPhone theft that was followed by a SMiShing campaign designed to unlock the phone for resale on the black market. As we […]
February 28, 2020
Via: Help Net Security73% of government employees are concerned about impending ransomware threats to cities across the country, and more employees fear of cyberattacks to their community than natural disasters and terrorist attacks, an IBM survey has revealed. More than 100 cities across […]
February 11, 2020
Via: Security WeekIBM’s 2020 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index summarizes the most prominent threats observed by the company’s researchers last year, including OT threats. Based on data derived from network event logs, IBM saw an increase of over 2000 percent in attacks targeting […]
December 12, 2019
Via: Help Net SecurityIBM Security announced it is extending its artificial intelligence (AI) technology originally developed to protect users in the financial services industry, to clients in all industries via the company’s identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) offering. IBM Cloud Identity now features AI-based adaptive access […]
November 21, 2019
Via: Help Net SecurityIBM announced Cloud Pak for Security, featuring industry-first innovations to connect with any security tool, cloud or on-premise system, without moving data from its original source. The platform includes open-source technology for hunting threats, automation capabilities to help speed response […]
November 18, 2019
Via: Help Net SecurityThere are notable network performance and connectivity differences between the five major public cloud providers – Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud and IBM Cloud, ThousandEyes reveals. A look at public cloud performance While […]
September 12, 2019
Via: Help Net SecurityIBM announced z15, a new enterprise platform delivering the ability to manage the privacy of customer data across hybrid multicloud environments. With z15, clients can manage who gets access to data via policy-based controls, with an industry-first capability to instantly […]
Malware, Phishing, Vulnerabilities
December 20, 2018
Via: Security IntelligenceTaking a look back at 2018, it amazes me that the cybercrime threat landscape continues to top itself year after year. Over the past year, we’ve seen historic breaches, the discovery of large-scale vulnerabilities, the emergence of the trust economy […]
October 30, 2018
Via: Help Net SecurityIBM and Red Hat announced have reached a definitive agreement under which IBM will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Red Hat for $190.00 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $34 […]