Mathew J. Schwartz

Executive Editor, DataBreachToday & Europe, ISMG

Schwartz is an award-winning journalist with two decades of experience in magazines, newspapers and electronic media. He has covered the information security and privacy sector throughout his career. Before joining Information Security Media Group in 2014, where he now serves as the executive editor, DataBreachToday and for European news coverage, Schwartz was the information security beat reporter for InformationWeek and a frequent contributor to DarkReading, among other publications. He lives in Scotland.

Zeus Banking Trojan Spawn: Alive and Kicking

Mathew J. Schwartz • November 24, 2017

Like its mythological namesake, the source code for Zeus malware appears to be immortal. New variants continue to surface, including the Terdot banking Trojan, which is also designed to steal email and social networking credentials while remaining hidden.

Drive-By Phishing Scams Race Toward Uber Users

Mathew J. Schwartz • November 23, 2017

Give crooks credit for topicality: They remain loathe to miss a trick. Indeed, hardly any time elapsed after Uber came clean about the year-old breach it had concealed before crack teams of social engineers unleashed appropriately themed phishing messages designed to bamboozle the masses.

Fast and Furious Data Breach Scandal Overtakes Uber

Mathew J. Schwartz • November 22, 2017

Move over Equifax. There's a massive new data breach notification in town. And Uber is still struggling to come clean about why it waited for one year to notify data breach victims and regulators.

Driving Privacy Regulators Crazy: UK Probes Uber Breach

Mathew J. Schwartz • November 22, 2017

Britain's data privacy watchdog has launched a probe of the massive 2016 data breach suffered by Uber. More than 12 months after the breach, the ride-hailing service is scrambling to notify 57 million individuals across multiple countries that their personal details were exposed.

Windows 10 Security Feature Broken, CERT/CC Warns

Mathew J. Schwartz • November 21, 2017

Recent versions of Windows have a security problem: They're not random enough, CERT/CC warns. The problem centers on certain uses of ASLR, which is designed to block return-oriented programming techniques and code reuse attacks.

Fraudster Tied to 'The Dark Overlord' Jailed for 3 Years

Mathew J. Schwartz • November 20, 2017

A British man who was initially arrested on suspicion of hacking English socialite Pippa Middleton's iCloud account has been sentenced to serve a three-year prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to unrelated fraud and blackmail crimes. But he may also have ties to The Dark Overlord extortion gang.

Business Case: Bug Hunters Need Better Financial Incentives

Mathew J. Schwartz • November 16, 2017

Businesses need to find more ways of incentivizing good researchers to find flaws in technology before bad actors discover them, says Rafael Narezzi, CIO of financial services firm TS Lombard. For every bug hunter with good intentions, how many more are developing weaponized exploits for sale on darknet markets?

Fraudster Repellant: How eBay's Gumtree Polices Classifieds

Mathew J. Schwartz • November 14, 2017

How can you battle scammers and fraudsters as well as foster trust and protect the brand? For Gumtree - Britain's largest online classifieds platform, owned by eBay - the answer is simple: trial and error, says fraud communications manager Fergus Campbell.

Hackers Claim to Defeat iPhone X 'Face ID' Authentication

Mathew J. Schwartz • November 13, 2017

The face-off between security researchers and biometric authentication continues, with a group from Vietnam claiming to have fooled the facial-recognition system, called Face ID, that's built into Apple's latest iPhone by using a handmade mask that includes 3D printouts and a silicone nose.

Report: SEC Plans Breach Reporting Guidance Refresh

Mathew J. Schwartz • November 10, 2017

All U.S. publicly traded companies should review how they internally disseminate breach information and expect to see revised cybersecurity guidance, says William Hinman, the director of corporation finance for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

After Outage, Hosting Giant OVH Promises Greater Paranoia

Mathew J. Schwartz • November 9, 2017

French cloud computing and hosting giant OVH has apologized to customers after it suffered an outage that left many individuals unable to access websites, email accounts, online databases and other infrastructure. In response, it's promised to be much more paranoid.

Financial Sector Under Increasing Cybercrime Threat

Mathew J. Schwartz • November 9, 2017

The financial sector is under increasing threat from cybercrime syndicates, and the distributed nature of today's predominantly Russian-speaking attackers is making them tough to disrupt, says Rob Wainwright, director of Europol.

Life After Yahoo: Mayer Forced to Testify Before Senate

Mathew J. Schwartz • November 8, 2017

Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer may have envisioned spending her post-Yahoo days seeking new work or experimenting with other search engines. Instead, she gets to sit in a Senate hot seat alongside former Equifax CEO Richard Smith, defending past data breach response decisions.

UK Cybersecurity Center Issues 'The Dark Overlord' Alert

Mathew J. Schwartz • November 7, 2017

Want to stop the latest cybercrime bogeyman? For the umpteenth time, put in place well-known and proven strategies for repelling online attacks, such as the Australian Signals Directorate's top 4 mitigation strategies for repelling targeted cyber intrusions.

Report: Attackers Hacked Nepalese Bank's SWIFT Server

Mathew J. Schwartz • November 6, 2017

Fraudulent SWIFT money-moving attacks continue, as one of Nepal's largest private-sector commercial banks, NIC Asia Bank, says attackers tried to steal $4.4 million after hacking its SWIFT server. Most of the funds have since been recovered.

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