Google has warned Google Apps administrators that their private Whois contact information has been exposed. The leak affects more than 282,000 administrators, and places them at greater risk of ID theft and spam attacks, according to Cisco.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has passed a cyberthreat information sharing bill known as CISA, but it's unclear whether it provides liability protections for businesses and privacy safeguards for citizens that would receive White House approval.
Mattel will sell a cloud-connected $75 "Hello Barbie" doll that can "listen" to what kids are saying and talk back. But security experts warn that anything that connects to the Internet can - and will - be hacked.
In spite of the best efforts of the cyber security industry to protect computer networks, breaches still happen, causing millions of dollars in damage, tainting the reputation of corporations, and causing end users to lose confidence in the security of their personal information. Given that new reality, it's not...
Many organizations are not aware of the targeted attacks and advanced threats that readily breach existing security defenses. Today's attackers conduct advance reconnaissance on their targets, in order to custom-design advanced malware attack methods that are specifically designed to evade detection. To protect data,...
Today's security landscape is scarier than ever due to a dangerous new breed of targeted attacks. Organizations are blind to advanced threats that cloak themselves by using a variety of means and methods to escape detection. Targeted or spear-phishing email attacks have become the preferred method to gain a foothold...
Cybercriminals are increasingly using spear-phishing emails to get users to click malicious links or to open malicious file attachments, laterally moving across target networks, maintaining persistent access to breached networks, and using other techniques more typical of threat actors. While the concept of using...
Cybercrime now costs the average US enterprise $12.7 million annually. Increasing volume and complexity of compliance requirements is attracting executive attention, with 47% of companies increasing their compliance staff and 45% of companies increasing their compliance budget.
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Efficiently transmitting mission-critical modeling and design files between multiple teams in worldwide offices is instrumental to the success of today's architecture, construction and engineering professionals. But as projects span across the globe, a smarter set of secure data exchange tools are required to bridge...
Considering the massive scale and cost of payment system breaches that have made headlines in recent months, it is clear that - if there were ever a time to take short cuts or do the bare minimum in securing sensitive payment data - this is not it. While the need to secure payment transactions and data remains...
For the security teams tasked with safeguarding sensitive payment information, significant challenges and opportunities continue to arise. Once sensitive payment assets started being managed in digital format, those assets needed to be secured; that's one thing that hasn't changed over the past decade. However,...
Learn how threats like malware and various social engineering techniques are used to commit fraud and create data breaches in the financial services market. You will also gain an understanding of the differences between passive and active defenses and how to select and deploy an active defense - all to stop the bad...
The federal government plans to let businesses lead the way in creating standards for new cyberthreat information sharing and analysis organizations, much as it did when it created the cybersecurity framework.
Both Microsoft and Apple this week released patches to address the so-called "Freak" flaw in SSL/TLS. Microsoft also released a fix that addresses a failed 2010 patch for a vulnerability that was exploited by the Stuxnet malware.
A former customer service representative at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is among 11 individuals recently arrested in connection with an alleged identity theft scheme that resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars in credit fraud.
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