Tag: cyber security

December 20, 2017

Data centers aren’t exactly going extinct, but given the massive shift to public clouds, you need to make some significant adjustments if your mindset doesn’t already include or understand the cloud. The problem is that not every organization knows how […]

December 20, 2017

The National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday published an analysis report on a piece of malware designed to target industrial safety systems. FireEye and Dragos reported last week that […]

December 20, 2017

The cyberthreat landscape has evolved over time, and 2017 saw an increase in attacks over the 90 million intrusions recorded in 2016. While threats such as ransomware are not new, this year saw a major paradigm shift in which malicious […]

December 19, 2017

Security conferences offer great opportunities to learn about the latest innovations and trends in the industry. They allow practitioners to interact directly with vendors and to network with their peers, putting a human spin on the technology-driven, often impersonal business […]

December 18, 2017

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Keylogger found in Synaptics driver on HP laptops For the second time this year, a security researcher unearthed a keylogger in a driver used on a number […]

December 15, 2017

A proposed new law could make it legal for companies to hack back against attacker. But will it work? Destruction, loss of data, intellectual property theft, fraud, embezzlement, disruption to business, restoration—globally, the costs of dealing with hacking are staggering. […]

December 15, 2017

A hacker used a new type of malware targeting industrial control systems against a critical infrastructure organization in an attack that resulted in operations shutting down, according to cybersecurity experts. Cybersecurity firm FireEye, which has dubbed the malware “Triton,” saidThursday that its […]

December 14, 2017

Research revealed massive increases in scripting attacks and overall malware attempts against midsize companies throughout Q3 2017. In fact, WatchGuard Technologies found that scripting threats accounted for 68 percent of all malware during the period. The findings reinforce expectations of […]

October 31, 2017

A security researcher was able to view some of Google’s most severe vulnerabilities due to flaws in the company’s internal bug tracking system, he said. The Issue Tracker, or Buganizer, as it’s known internally, is used among researchers and bug […]

October 31, 2017

As a security team, you are what you measure. The problem is that too many security teams are counting vulnerabilities, not measuring risk. It’s time we examine how vital it is for security teams to establish risk-based metrics, while offering […]