February 20, 2020

Organizations are more quickly detecting attackers in their networks and systems, but the majority of attacks are still being found by third parties and not by internal security groups. In 2019, companies needed 56 days, on average, to detect an […]

February 20, 2020

Personal information from over 10 million people who stayed at MGM Resorts was posted to a hacking forum earlier this week, NBC News reported. According to the network, no financial data was posted, but full names, birthdates, addresses, email addresses […]

February 20, 2020

History of ransomware Ransomware, a type of malware that holds data for ransom, has been around for years. In 1991, a biologist spread PC Cyborg, the first ransomware, by sending floppy disks via surface mail to other AIDS researchers, for […]

February 19, 2020

The targeted organization has not been named and it’s unclear exactly when the incident occured. According to CISA, the cyberattack affected control and communication assets on the victim’s operational technology (OT) network. A compression facility helps transport natural gas from […]

February 19, 2020

Data. Your business and computers are full of it. While much of that data is useless to anyone else, every firm has key assets that any attacker or other competitor would love to access. Data can leave your organization in […]

February 19, 2020

New data from security and content delivery company Akamai shows that one in every five attempts to gain unauthorized access to user accounts is now done through application programming interfaces (APIs) instead of user-facing login pages. This trend is even […]

February 19, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an immensely helpful tool for businesses and consumers alike. By processing data quickly and predicting analytics, AI can do everything from automating systems to protecting information. In fact, keeping data secure is a significant part of […]

February 18, 2020

Ten days after a suspected ransomware attack, residents of the English borough of Redcar and Cleveland must be starting to wonder when their Council’s IT systems will return. The first public sign of trouble appeared on the morning of Saturday, […]

February 18, 2020

Introduced in May 2019, the free software development kit (SDK) was created in collaboration with Galois, aiming to provide end-to-end verification of elections. Moreover, the tool opens election results to third-party organizations for secure validation. Made available last year to […]

February 18, 2020

The financial malware arena became a mainstream issue a little over a decade ago with the rise of malware like the Zeus Trojan, which at the time was the first commercial banking Trojan available to the cybercrime world. We have […]