Yahoo has announced on Thursday that they have suffered a breach and that account information of at least half a billion users has been exfiltrated from the company’s network in late 2014. The stolen data “may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords (the vast majority with bcrypt) …
The complaint that security is broken isn’t new and even industry insiders are joining the chorus. Companies spent an estimated $75 billion last year on security products and yet cyber attacks and data breaches are still a common occurrence. Now, we’re finding that security tools themselves have vulnerabilities that are putting organizations …
Malicious DNS tunnelling is a big problem in cybersecurity. The technique involves the use of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol to smuggle sensitive corporate or personal information out of a network, and to enable malware command and control communications in and out. Indeed, as the Infoblox Security Assessment Report revealed recently, …
There’s one word that we’ve consistently been hearing from information security pundits year after year: Collaboration. More often than not, they were talking about collaboration between governments, law enforcement agencies, and businesses, but collaboration is also crucial within an enterprise, especially when you take into …
Kaspersky Lab experts investigated how cybercriminals could exploit new biometric ATM …
While 82 percent of respondents believe the IT security industry is making progress against …
The use of information and communication technologies in the public sector, specifically online government services, is a key factor for being targeted by cybercriminals. Technological advances have made it possible to store personal data in …
As the day when US citizens cast a vote for their preferred presidential nominee quickly approaches, the issue of whether the actual voting process can be tampered with is a topic that interests many. It is widely believed, but never officially …
The release of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 sparked something positive – iris scanning. ABI Research forecasts global shipments of smartphones equipped with iris scanners will reach almost 300 million in 2021. “As the iris is an …
The use of improper data removal methods and the poor enforcement of data retention policies have created the perfect storm for confidential, oftentimes sensitive data to be lost or stolen, according to Blancco Technology Group. The study, which …
Organizations know how to improve security. However, due to pressures caused by the rate of business change, including the adoption of new technologies and applications, organizations are sacrificing security for the speed of business, according …
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 …
Yahoo has announced on Thursday that they have suffered a breach and that account information of at least half a billion users has been exfiltrated from the company’s network in late 2014. The stolen data “may have included names, …
