Tag: Report

November 22, 2018

Bitglass has released its 2018 BYOD Security Report. The analysis is based on a survey of nearly 400 enterprise IT experts who revealed the state of BYOD and mobile device security in their organizations. According to the study, 85 percent […]

November 12, 2018

Google last week added a quarterly Android Ecosystem Security Transparency Report to its Transparency Report site. The new report aims to provide users with additional insights into how often it detects devices with potentially harmful applications (PHAs) installed, based on […]

November 6, 2018

Hackers have attempted to breach U.S. election systems more than 160 times since August, according to a federal election threats report viewed by The Boston Globe. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reports show that foreign hackers have made dozens of […]

October 31, 2018

States have stepped up their cybersecurity protections ahead of the Nov. 6 midterms, but are still lacking in some areas, according to a report released Tuesday by cyber experts. The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) found that 40 […]

October 19, 2018

Facebook believes that the hack it discovered last month that affected nearly 30 million users was not conducted by a foreign state but rather spammers hoping to profit off deceptive advertising, according to The Wall Street Journal. The Journal, citing […]

October 5, 2018

Apple and Amazon are strongly refuting a report claiming that Chinese spies infiltrated third-party motherboards used on servers by U.S. companies. If true, the incident would be the largest supply chain attack to have been launched against American corporations, say […]

September 21, 2018

More than three-quarters of ATOs resulted in a phishing email, a new report shows. Why spoof an email address for phishing messages when you can hijack an account and send them from the real one? That’s the theory behind account […]

August 8, 2018

A cybersecurity firm says it uncovered the methods and tools hackers use to target critical infrastructure organizations, activity it observed by creating a website that masqueraded as a major electricity provider. Cybereason on Monday released a report on its “Honeypot […]

August 1, 2018

The security experts from Sophos have published a report on the multimillion-dollar black market business for crooks, they analyzed the SamSam ransomware case as a case study. The researchers that have tracked Bitcoin addresses managed by the crime gang discovered […]

June 1, 2018

A report from the Departments of Commerce and Homeland Security provides five goals for protecting infrastructure from botnets and other automated threats. In May 2017, the Trump administration issued Executive Order 13800, “Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical […]

April 12, 2018

The rate at which users are receiving and clicking on phishing URLs on their mobile devices has increased at an average rate of 85% per year since 2011, mobile security firm Lookout reports. What’s more worrisome is the fact that […]

March 23, 2018

The cost of having an organization targeted by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack for an hour is as low as $10, cybersecurity firm Armor says. The low cost of launching such attacks results from the proliferation of cybercrime-as-a-service, […]

February 19, 2018

A record-breaking number of vulnerabilities were disclosed in 2017, with a total of 20,832 such security flaws, a new report from Risk Based Security shows. According to the company’s VulnDB QuickView report, last year saw a 31.0% year-on-year increase in […]

February 15, 2018

The launch and growth of new operating systems is mirrored by an increase in reported vulnerabilities. The number of critical vulnerabilities reported for Windows 10 increased 64% between 2016 and 2017. In total, 587 vulnerabilities were reported across Windows Vista, […]

January 19, 2018

Companies have become more open in the past year to receiving vulnerability reports from security researchers, according to ethical hackers surveyed by bug bounty platform HackerOne. According to HackerOne’s 2018 Hacker Report, which surveyed nearly 2,000 white hat hackers across […]

October 25, 2017

Thirty percent of CEOs from the world’s largest organizations have had their company email address and password stolen from a breached service. Given the continuing tendency for users to employ simple passwords and reuse the same passwords across multiple accounts, […]

October 9, 2017

Forrester, one of the world’s most influential market research and advisory firms, informed customers late on Friday that its main website had been breached. According to Forrester Chief Business Technology Officer Steven Peltzman, a hacker accessed information provided to customers […]

March 16, 2017

20 percent of global organizations rank cyber espionage as the most serious threat to their business, with 26 percent struggling to keep up with the rapidly evolving threat landscape. In addition, one in five U.S. organizations have suffered a cyber […]

March 3, 2017

Cloudflare investigated the mass leaking of encrypted browsing sessions Google’s experts discovered, but found no evidence of exploitation, despite the huge vulnerability the bug brought to the table. The company admits that this vulnerability had the potential to be much worse, […]

February 28, 2017

Approximately 26% of Americans have been compromised by healthcare data breaches, according to a new survey from Accenture. The global professional services company also found that half of the victims of data breaches had suffered from medical identity theft – […]