Banks in West Africa have been targeted by at least four hacking campaigns since mid-2017, with online attackers wielding commoditized attack tools and "living off the land" tactics to disguise their efforts, Symantec warns.
Venture capitalists invested $5.3 billion in cybersecurity companies in 2018, about 20 percent more than in 2017 and twice as much as 2016, according to research from Strategic Cyber Ventures. What's ahead for 2019 and beyond?
Airline booking system provider Amadeus - whose system is used by 500 airlines - is investigating a software vulnerability that exposed passenger name records, which is the bundle of personal and travel data that gets collected when booking a flight.
Most companies have huge gaps in their cyber security defenses, and can be compromised at will by a determined hacker. The industry even has a term for it: "Assume Breach".
Join Roger A. Grimes, a 30-year computer security consultant, for this webinar where he explores the latest research on what's wrong with current...
The recent exposure of customer data on the website of Singapore Airlines as a result of a software bug is further evidence of the persistent challenge of adequately addressing security during the development stage.
The recent Black Hat Europe conference in London touched on topics ranging from combating "deep fake" videos and information security career challenges to hands-on lock-picking tutorials and the dearth of research proposals centered on deception technology.
The Trump administration has launched a public awareness campaign, spearheaded by the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, urging the U.S. private sector to better defend itself against nation-state hackers and others who may be trying to steal their sensitive data or wage supply chain attacks.
Recent analysis by F5 Labs shows that 68% of malware installed through phishing is hiding in encryption. Security inspection tools such as next-generation firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, data loss prevention systems, and others are increasingly blind to SSL/TLS traffic. In some cases, they introduce latency...
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Most companies have huge gaps in their computer security defenses, and can be compromised at will by a determined hacker. The industry even has a term for it: "Assume Breach".
But it doesn't have to be that way!
Join Roger A. Grimes, a 30-year computer security consultant and author of 10 books, for this webinar...
The digital revolution has given healthcare organizations new tools to increase team efficiency and improve their customer experience. But it's also opened up new vectors that cybercriminals can use to attack. As your attack surface expands to web infrastructure that you don't own or control, it becomes increasingly...
Organizations looking to migrate to a next-generation security operations center must first carefully assess any problems they are facing with current security technology, says Vikram Mehta, associate director of information security at MakeMyTrip, an India-based online ticketing portal.
Where is the greatest potential for the implementation of blockchain in healthcare? Attorney Steven Teppler discusses the possibilities for the distributed ledger technology as well as its security pros and cons.
Encrypting and decrypting traffic consumes a lot of computational power, so many security inspection solutions either don't decrypt at all or take such a huge performance hit that they pass along encrypted traffic just to keep up. Whether its traffic coming into your application or internal traffic going out to the...
The increase of SSL/TLS traffic indicates that organizations are more and more focused on safeguarding the integrity of the data that flows through their Internet-facing applications.
However, the concurrent growth of malware hidden within that encrypted traffic is cause for concern. Without visibility into your...
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