As cyber-crime evolves, attacks are complex and creative, and often tailored to the targeted industries and organizations. Therefore, to respond appropriately, one must engage in advanced threat hunting that takes the human factor in consideration.
Today, most of the cyber security community focuses on technical...
Uber's tardy data breach notification - one year after the incident occurred - has trigged fresh questions about how quickly companies should come clean after they suffer a cybersecurity incident.
A presentation on new models to battle email phishing leads the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also, did Uber mishandle ransomware response?
Britain's data privacy watchdog has launched a probe of the massive 2016 data breach suffered by Uber. More than 12 months after the breach, the ride-hailing service is scrambling to notify 57 million individuals across multiple countries that their personal details were exposed.
Uber paid hackers $100,000 to keep quiet about a 2016 breach that exposed 57 million accounts belonging to customers and drivers, Bloomberg reports. But was the payment a bug bounty, as Uber has suggested, or really an extortion payoff and hush money?
U.S. prosecutors have unsealed an indictment against an Iranian man charged with trying to extort entertainment company HBO for $6 million in bitcoins. The case marks a rare public naming of someone accused of cyber extortion, which poses an increasing risk for all organizations.
Move over Equifax. There's a massive new data breach notification in town. And Uber is still struggling to come clean about why it waited for one year to notify data breach victims and regulators.
HealthcareInfoSecurity Executive Editor Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reflects on the just-concluded Healthcare Security Summit in New York in the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also, PCI Security Standards Council CTO Troy Leach addresses ransomware risks.
A British man who was initially arrested on suspicion of hacking English socialite Pippa Middleton's iCloud account has been sentenced to serve a three-year prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to unrelated fraud and blackmail crimes. But he may also have ties to The Dark Overlord extortion gang.
It's frightening what criminals can buy on the dark web. But it's even scarier that they may be buying your own security certificates to use against you. Venafi recently sponsored a six-month investigation into the sale of digital code signing certificates on the dark web. Conducted with the Cyber Security Research...
Our increased dependence on machines is so profound that even the definition of machine is undergoing radical change. The number and type of physical devices on enterprise networks has been rising rapidly, but this is outstripped by the number of applications and services they host.
At the same time, cloud adoption...
Is your organization exposed to an attack that misuses SSH keys?
You know that your organization is using SSH to safeguard privileged access. But you may not realize that your SSH keys could be vulnerable to insider and cyber threats.
The majority of those we surveyed didn't. Results from a 2017 study show that...
Kaspersky Lab says it "inadvertently" scooped up classified U.S. documents and code from an NSA analyst's home computer, but suggests it wasn't the conduit by which the material ended up in Russian hands. It claims that the computer was riddled with malware.
A report on new White House rules on when to disclose cybersecurity vulnerabilities to software vendors leads the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also, storing passcodes in clothing.
Dozens of lively discussions sprung up among the healthcare CISOs, legal experts and leaders from government agencies and technology vendors at Information Security Media Group's Healthcare Security Summit in New York. So what are some of the key takeaways?
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