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Key threats and trends SMB IT teams deal with
MSPs are significantly more concerned with internal data breaches and rapidly evolving technology practices, whereas internal IT teams are more concerned with employee …

Old Magecart domains are finding new life in fresh threat campaigns
Magecart has so radically changed the threat landscape, victimizing hundreds of thousands of sites and millions of users, that other cybercriminals are building campaigns to …

Researchers analyzed 16.4 billion requests to see how bots affect e-commerce
The sophistication level of bots attacking e-commerce sites is on the rise, with nearly four-fifths (79.2 percent) classified as moderate or sophisticated, up from 75.8 …

Some IT teams move to the cloud without business oversight or direction
27% of IT teams in the financial industry migrated data to the cloud for no specific reason, and none of them received financial support from management for their cloud …

How organizations view and manage cyber risk
Amid a wider range of issues to handle, a majority of board members and senior executives responsible for their organization’s cyber risk management had less than a day in the …

(IN)SECURE Magazine issue 63 released
(IN)SECURE Magazine is a free digital security publication discussing some of the hottest information security topics. Issue 63 has been released today. It’s a free …

SLAs: What your cybersecurity vendor isn’t telling you
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) have been used in the IT world for many years as a contractual mechanism for holding service providers accountable and extracting defined …

Businesses need to treat cybersecurity as something that crosses organizational boundaries
Companies are working to balance their desire for new innovations with their need for strong cyber-defenses, according to a new report from CompTIA. CompTIA’s …

The use of open source software in DevOps has become strategic for organizations of all sizes
A higher percentage of top performing teams in enterprise organizations are using open source software, according to a survey conducted by DevOps Research and Assessment …

Improving the security, privacy and safety of future connected vehicles
The security, privacy and safety of connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) has been improved thanks to testing at WMG, University of Warwick. CAVs can now connect to each other, …

World’s top 25 CTF teams to battle for $100,000 at HITB PRO CTF
In less than a month, Hack In The Box is launching its biggest global event: HITB+CyberWeek 2019. It is a week-long gathering (October 12-17, 2019, at Emirates Palace, Abu …

DNSSEC fueling new wave of DNS amplification attacks
DNS amplification attacks swelled in the second quarter of this year, with the amplified attacks spiking more than 1,000% compared with Q2 2018, according to Nexusguard. …