Despite high-profile, large-scale data breaches dominating the news cycle – and repeated recommendations from experts to use strong passwords – consumers have yet to adjust their own behavior when it comes to password reuse. A Lab42 survey, which polled consumers across the United States, Germany, France, New Zealand, Australia and …
We’re all familiar with the cartoon image of a character stopping a water leak by plugging a finger into the hole, only for another leak to start, needing another finger, and so on, until the character is soaked by a wave of water. It’s a little like the current, fragmented state of mobile security – the range of threats is growing fast, …
All organizations are impacted by a security breach at some point. As the joke goes in the security industry, businesses fall into two categories: those that have been breached and those that don’t know they have been breached. Some organizations don’t know they have had a security incident until the FBI informs them. A breach can have …
Cybercriminal networks are increasingly taking advantage of lax Internet of Things device security to spread malware and create zombie networks, or botnets, unbeknownst to their device owners. When lax security becomes a huge problem Symantec’s Security Response team has discovered that cybercriminals are hijacking home networks and everyday …
The massive 2014 Yahoo breach isn’t the work of state-sponsored hackers as the company …
One of the new features in iOS 10 offers the possibility of deploying specially crafted …
Security researcher Pierre Kim has unearthed a bucketload of vulnerabilities affecting the LTE router/portable wireless hotspot D-Link DWR-932. Among these are backdoor accounts, weak default PINs, and hardcoded passwords. Kim went searching for …
Almost half (46 percent) of board members believe compliance regulations help establish stronger security, but nearly 60 percent struggle with meeting increased mandates—a nearly 20 percent jump over the past two years, according to a nationwide …
82 percent of IT decision makers admit they are hoarders of data and digital files, according to research conducted by Wakefield Research among 10,022 global office professionals and IT decision makers to look into how individuals manage data. …
One of the new features in iOS 10 offers the possibility of deploying specially crafted applications within iMessage. Most users will probably (ab)use this new functionality for sending tiresome animations and gestures, but some applications can …
Despite high-profile, large-scale data breaches dominating the news cycle – and repeated recommendations from experts to use strong passwords – consumers have yet to adjust their own behavior when it comes to password reuse. A Lab42 …
BitSight analyzed the security ratings of nearly 20,000 companies to identify common forms of ransomware and to determine which industries (amongst Finance, Healthcare, Education, Energy/Utilities, Retail, and Government) are most likely to …
The massive 2014 Yahoo breach isn’t the work of state-sponsored hackers as the company has claimed to believe, say researchers from identity protection and threat intelligence firm InfoArmor. Instead, the breach was effected by a group of …
