More data records were leaked or stolen by miscreants during the first half of 2017 (1.9 billion) than all of 2016 (1.37 billion). Digital security company Gemalto's Breach Level Index (PDF), published Wednesday, found that an average of 10.4 million records are exposed or swiped every day. During the...
Growth in digital channels and transactions has exponentially increased chances of security threats over the last decade. The recent security threats, WannaCry and Petya, quickly became major concerns for businesses globally. According to a recent report by Kaspersky, Petya affected over 2,000 organizations globally. Unlike WannaCry, which...
Many hacks, breaches and failures occur because of a series of bad decisions, poor strategy & a lack of enforcement of well-known security practices. by Forrester Research • Aug 21, 2017 After reading through some other blogs and strategy papers, (Don’t judge me. To some of us,...
Cyber-criminals start attacking servers newly set up online about an hour after they are switched on, suggests research. The servers were part of an experiment the BBC asked a security company to carry out to judge the scale and calibre of cyber-attacks that firms face every...
Nearly 90 percent of organizations have faith that the security techniques and technologies they have in place provide the protection they need. And almost 60 percent believe they are less vulnerable from a security threat than they were as recently as one year ago. These...
As the times change, the security community needs to adapt. We live in an imperfect world, as Alex Stamos, Chief Information Security Officer of Facebook pointed out in his recent BlackHat 2017 keynote address. Instead of trying to punish each other, hackers and innovators need to work...
There are a range of reasons why states engage in cyber-espionage targeting the private sector, but Alex Vaystikh explains that their methods are mostly the same as ordinary cyber-criminals, and defence is possible. As the recent Verizon Breach Report showed, cyber-espionage has risen significantly in the...
A new report suggests that Windows admins and users could mitigate 94% of all critical vulnerabilities automatically by running non-admin accounts. It is common sense that using standard user accounts on Windows, opposed to accounts with elevated privileges, is a good security practice. The main reason behind...
As devastating as the latest widespread ransomware attacks have been, it's a problem with a solution. If your copy of Windows is relatively current and you've kept it updated, your laptop is immune. It's only older unpatched systems on your computer that are vulnerable. Patching is...
Email remains the No. 1 threat vector for businesses, with a full 76% of ransomware attacks starting with a malicious message. According to a survey from Barracuda, phishing—and particularly spear phishing—has become a lucrative art. The attackers also do not discriminate based on company size. Email...