Monthly Archives: May 2019

Checkers and Rally’s, one of the largest chains of double drive-thru restaurants in the United States, disclosed a credit card breach. “We recently became aware of a data security issue […]

By Greg Mosher, Avast’s VP of Engineering As fast as cybercriminals adapt to work their way around security defenses, new techniques and tactics for preventing hacks, infections and data breaches […]

By Milica D. Djekic What is in common to the DDoS and any ransomware attacks? We could confidently say it’s their ability to get used as the sabotage weapons. If […]

Tim Sadler comments on the alarming statistic released by the Information Commissioner’s office stating that misaddressed emails were the number form of data loss in 2017. Tim Sadler is CEO […]

Social engineering, sextortion campaigns and retail attacks are on the rise as enterprises strengthen security efforts and increase incident response time A new research report from Trustwave highlights an interesting […]

The news aggregator Flipboard announced that it suffered a breach, unauthorized users had access to some databases storing user account information. The news and social media aggregator Flipboard disclosed on […]

By Jerry Thompson The cybersecurity threat landscape is now more fraught than ever. New revelations on the scope and severity of 2017’s Equifax hack seem to roll out by the […]

By Tim Bedard, Director of Security Product Marketing, OneSpan E-signatures have been helping enterprises transform their operations for 25 years. Companies in both the public and private sectors deploy e-signatures […]

EXECUTIVES SAY SECURITY IS TOP OF MIND, BUT SEARCH DATA PROVES OTHERWISE By Ben Lorica, Chief Data Scientist, O’Reilly From media headlines to industry surveys, most business executives across industries […]

Why measurement is at the core of Analogue Network Security, and why Cybersecurity without metrics is a fool’s errand by Winn Schwartau, Founder & CVO, The Security Awareness Company The […]

GreyNoise experts detected scans for systems vulnerable to the BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708) vulnerability from exclusively Tor exit nodes. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 address nearly 80 vulnerabilities, including an RDS […]

by Stewart Kantor, CEO, and co-founder of Full Spectrum Inc. Interconnectivity has become a norm in today’s society, with everything from your smartphone to your increasingly automated home and vehicle. […]

by Dr. Eric Cole I’ve been talking about insider threat for nearly 10 years and advocating the position that compromising an insider is a lot easier for an adversary than […]

By Hugh Njemanze, CEO, Anomali According to a recent report from the Online Trust Alliance, 2017 marked another “worst year ever” for cyber attacks. Businesses across every sector experienced nearly […]

Your Guide to Encrypting Files in Linux If your organization is one of the many that uses Linux operating systems to run key business processes, it’s important to implement the […]

The US real-estate insurance biz, First American Financial, accidentally leaked customers’ highly personal files online, hundreds of millions of documents. The US real-estate insurance company First American Financial Corp. accidentally leaked […]

Among the cryptojacking-buzz, Facebook’s data breach saga, and nation-state attacks on companies like Nissan, you likely noticed a trend of high-profile cybercrime in 2018. However, after studying website attacks that […]

by James Smith, Bugsnag CEO Over the last three months, the media including Cyber Defense Magazine has reported what seems to be one computer bug after another, including the Meltdown […]

Yesterday SandboxEscaper publicly disclosed a Windows zero-day vulnerability, now she disclosed other two unknown issues in less than 24 hours. Just Yesterday, the popular developer SandboxEscaper publicly disclosed a Windows […]

Lack of  knowledge can cost you a lot By Charles Chipiliro Chioko, IT Security Compliance Officer, NICO Technologies Limited Gone are the days where people get worried about viruses which […]

By Brent Whitfield, CEO at DCG Technical Solutions Inc. Whether the attempts of foreign agents to affect the 2016 presidential election had a significant effect or not, many eyes have […]

Snapchat internal staff has allegedly abused their role in the company to spy on Snapchat users using and internal tools and steal data. Snapchat is a multimedia messaging app that makes pictures, videos, […]

A brief digest from the 2019 Thales Data Security Summit  Washington, D.C. – When my train pulled into Union Station, the weather forecast called for overcast, gray skies. Little did […]

A vendor-neutral framework for addressing the other 85% of vulnerabilities by Duncan McAlynn, Cybersecurity Consultant If your organization is like most, you likely have clearly defined processes in place for […]

What you don’t know can hurt you by Thomas MacIsaac, Cybersecurity Strategist, SSH Communications Security Cybercrime is as old as the internet, which means there has always been a need […]

by Aarij Khan, Vice President of Marketing, Securonix As businesses increasingly rely on digital systems, networks, and data for operations, the value of maintaining the integrity and availability of these […]

A new survey shows how companies in different regions and industries deal differently with cloud security risks by Michael Fimin, CEO and Co-Founder Netwrix Regardless of how long organizations have […]

By Tae Jin “TJ” Kang The Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC, adopted in 1995, was an attempt by the European Union to create a unified set of data privacy rules for […]

by David Nagrosst, Entrepreneurial Leader and CISSP Qualified Cyber Security Expert All three of the world’s largest hosting companies – Amazon, Alibaba Group, and Microsoft – have achieved their positions […]

by Uri Kreisman, COO, Bluechip Systems On August 15th, 2012, the Saudi Arabian group Saudi Aramco suffered a malware attack called “Shamoon” that damaged about thirty thousand computers. The state-owned […]