Today's ISMG Security Report leads off with House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul and DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson lamenting about the congressional bureaucracy that hinders passage of needed cybersecurity legislation.
From headline-making data breaches to hacktivist attacks, there never have been so many high-profile incidents, which in turn have sparked greater public awareness of information security risks.
Now, more than ever, regulators, board members and even customers are asking smart questions about information security,...
Cyber espionage and other increasingly sophisticated nation-state cyberattacks will escalate into what amounts to "cyberwar" in 2017, predicts security expert Michael Bruemmer of Experian Data Breach Resolution.
Ransomware has grown, evolved, and come into widespread use among hackers - and as we head into 2017, it has fully come of age. Hundreds of new variations have sprung up this year alone.
Join three security experts, Sam Kumarsamy, Rod Rasmussen and Sean Tierney, as they cut through the headlines and horror stories...
Upgrading endpoint protection is an important step toward mitigating the risk of sophisticated ransomware and other malware attacks, says George Kaminski of Palo Alto Networks.
Synchronoss' Tracy Hulver on New Identity Strategies for Connected Healthcare Threats
Attackers have healthcare entities in their crosshairs, and their favorite targets are easily compromised credentials. Tracy Hulver of Synchronoss Technologies offers new ideas for how security leaders can reduce risk and protect...
Deutsche Telekom says 900,000 customers were unable to access the internet after their routers were infected with malware. Researchers say it's a modified version of Mirai - code for building an internet-of-things botnet.
Facebook says it hasn't seen ransomware spreading through its Messenger instant messaging platform despite recent reports from researchers saying that the file-encrypting Locky may have slipped through.
The latest ISMG Security Report leads with a look at the ransomware attack against San Francisco's light rail agency. Also featured is an analysis of the ongoing fallout from Australia's online census project.
Score one for preparation: In the wake of a ransomware attack that infected 900 workstations, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency says it's restoring affected systems, vowing to not give the attackers a single bitcoin of their ransom demand.
Over the past three decades, there have been a great number of technological changes in the financial services world and regulators have struggled to keep up with them. The following white paper discusses the evolution and consequences of the Payments Service Directive and how regulation has gotten more complicated as...
The malware industry supplies all the components cybercriminals need to easily perpetrate malware-driven financial fraud and data theft. In today's virtual world, the scope of organizations vulnerable to malware-driven cybercrime is quite broad. In addition to banks and credit unions that are subject to online banking...
When evaluating and implementing fraud prevention technologies, most security professionals focus on only the fraud avoidance capabilities. They often overlook the potentially significant adverse impact on customers' experience and operational costs. Good fraud prevention solutions must be effective at identifying and...
If you're a fraudster, the tools required to initiate fraudulent transactions have never been more accessible. From well-established banking malware, such as Dyre, ZeuS and Kronos, to more recently discovered malware, such as Shifu and CoreBot, fraudsters have a host of advanced capabilities at their disposal to help...
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