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Week in review: Mass iPhone hacking, SSL VPNs under attack, SOC analysts overwhelmed
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and podcasts: Cybersecurity in the age of the remote workforce Users can be set up for a …
Cybersecurity in the age of the remote workforce
With the advent of cloud services and the proliferation of high end mobile devices (think iOS devices and Android phones), the workforce is moving inexorably to a mobile one …
Fileless attacks designed to disguise malicious activity up 265%
Trend Micro published its roundup report for the first half of 2019, revealing a surge in fileless attacks designed to disguise malicious activity. Detections of this threat …
Knowing what’s on your hybrid-IT environment is fundamental to security
In this Help Net Security podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2019, Shiva Mandalam, VP of Products, Visibility and Control at Qualys, talks about the importance of visibility. …
New ransomware grows 118% as cybercriminals adopt fresh tactics and code innovations
McAfee Labs saw an average of 504 new threats per minute in Q1 2019, and a resurgence of ransomware along with changes in campaign execution and code. More than 2.2 billion …
SOCs still overwhelmed by alert overload, struggle with false-positives
Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts continue to face an overwhelming number of alerts each day that are taking longer to investigate, leading five times as many SOC …
Product showcase: Stellar Repair for Exchange
Recovering from a corrupt Microsoft Exchange Server database or restoring a mailbox from an old Exchange database can be very tricky and, depending on the damage, an …
What the education industry must do to protect itself from cyber attacks
Data breaches show no signs of slowing down and companies across many industry verticals fall victim to what now seems to be a regular occurrence. Most attention around data …
How passwords paved the way for new technology
On July 15 we lost a major contributor to modern-day IT security – Dr. Fernando Corbato, the inventor of the password. Back in the early 1950s, computers could only do …
Cost of data breaches to surpass $5 trillion in 2024
A new report from Juniper Research found that the cost of data breaches will rise from $3 trillion each year to over $5 trillion in 2024, an average annual growth of 11%. This …
1 in 4 employees would steal company information to secure their next job
According to a survey of 476 IT security professionals at Black Hat USA 2019, nearly one in four (24%) said they would take company information to help apply for a position at …
Worried about cyber pirates hijacking autonomous ships? Focus on port cybersecurity first
On average, the U.S. Coast Guard issues between ten and twenty safety alerts annually. Alerts tend to function more as a public service announcement designed to raise …
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