Leon Ravenna, CISO of KAR Global, starts each day on the job with the expectation that this could be his last. That's how urgent cybersecurity has become, and it's in part why he's driven to dispatch the image of the CISO as the bureaucratic "Dr. No."
Gigamon has promoted Shane Buckley to CEO and tasked him with expanding the company's ability to protect customer data in the cloud. Buckley plans to broaden Gigamon's portfolio and add more functionality to guard data in motion regardless of if it resides in a physical, virtual or cloud network.
The Conti ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the March 31 cyberattack on German wind turbine manufacturer Nordex, which was forced to turn off its IT systems at multiple locations across several business units. The Russia-linked threat group has added Nordex as a victim on its leak site.
The U.S. government is offering up to $5 million for information that helps disrupt the illicit flow of funds to North Korea, including via cryptocurrency exchange hacks and ransomware. The expanded reward comes as the FBI has attributed a $620 million cryptocurrency heist to North Korean hackers.
Mimecast has released its latest State of Email Security Report, and it finds that 75% of companies were hurt by ransomware attacks in 2021 - up from 60% in 2020. Thom Bailey analyzes these results and discusses the role of emerging technology in building cyber resilience.
Ransomware and nation-state threats are daunting. But the threat that concerns Mustapha Kebbeh the most is supply chain risk. The Brinks CISO discusses how he has tackled this, as well as the challenges of tool complexity and peer collaboration.
Identity experts urge the Biden administration to accelerate the deployment of mobile driver's licenses and ensure identity theft victims get direct assistance. These are among the four items experts say must be added to an upcoming executive order focused on preventing and detecting identity theft.
A surprising improvement in loss ratios for cyber insurance providers in 2021 means the rapid rise in premiums might at last subside later this year. The loss ratio declined for the first time since 2018 despite the frequency and severity of claims filed for cyberattacks increasing again in 2021.
Darrell Bateman, the CISO of City Bank Texas, explains why governance and compliance issues are critical for security leaders in the banking industry and how success can help cement a CISO's relations with the board of directors.
A branch of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security says that it stopped an international hacking group from launching a major cyberattack on an underground cable system's servers. If the attackers had been successful, the incident could have become a national security threat, security experts say.
Obsidian Security has closed a Series C funding round to prevent session hijacking on more platforms and increase the number of SaaS applications being defended. Obsidian wants to go from protecting 25 major SaaS applications today to safeguarding hundreds of SaaS applications in a year or two.
Ronin Network, which powers the popular NFT game Axie Infinity, announced it had been the victim of a security breach that amounted to about $615 million in stolen funds. The company tweeted that the attacker's wallet had been connected to Binance and that an investigation is currently underway.
A lawsuit filed alleges, among other claims, that respiratory care provider SuperCare Health Inc. was negligent in failing to protect sensitive health information from a 2021 hacking incident affecting more than 300,000 patients. Experts say the litigation follows an increasingly familiar trend.
Researchers discovered a new social engineering-heavy malware campaign focused on defrauding employees in West Africa's banking sector. Although this campaign is not exactly new, it shows a detailed account of what social engineering looks like, according to cybersecurity veteran Tari Schreider.
Microsoft says it has seized control of 65 domains that the ZLoader gang has been using to grow, control and communicate with its botnet. ZLoader, a descendant of the ubiquitous Zeus banking malware, is run by a global, internet-based, organized crime gang operating malware as a service.
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