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BEC-as-a-Service: Hacked accounts available from $150
Digital Shadows has announced the findings of new research revealing the diversity of methods used to infiltrate company emails. The FBI has estimated that scams resulting …

Most enterprises highly vulnerable to security events caused by cloud misconfiguration
Fugue released the results of its Cloud Infrastructure Misconfiguration Report. The survey of more than 300 IT professionals revealed that most enterprises are highly …

Identity fraudsters are getting better and better at what they do
Socure, a provider of predictive analytics for digital identity verification, found that fraudsters have virtually eliminated reliable indicators for detecting fake identities …

Can we trust digital forensic evidence?
Research carried out at the University of York has suggested that more work is needed to show that digital forensic methods are robust enough to stand-up to interrogation in a …

Even with internal focus, most companies utilize external resources for cybersecurity
A greater reliance on metrics to measure success combined with enhancing skills across security teams can help organizations boost their cybersecurity effectiveness, according …

Bridging the priority gap between IT and security in DevOps
Let’s start with a test. Suppose that you manage a corporate network gateway across which a critical programmed transaction is scheduled to occur in exactly one hour. Suppose …

Most organizations believe hackers can penetrate their network
Radware released findings from its second annual web application security report, Radware 2018 State of Web Application Security. The report shares an in-depth view of the …

For some cloud services more than 75% of accounts are utilized by hackers
Researchers found that 21.57% percent of accounts originating from cloud service IP ranges appear to be fraudulent. Malicious accounts are eight times more likely to originate …

Emerging technologies lag in criticality while key skills remain a barrier
TEKsystems released the results of its 2018 Forecast Reality Check. The survey is designed to measure the current impact of market conditions on IT initiatives, hiring, …

You gotta fight, for your right, to erasure
According to Article 17 of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), all personal data that is no longer necessary must be removed and deleted. This …

Latest Building Security In Maturity Model reflects software security initiatives of 120 firms
Synopsys released BSIMM9, the latest version of the Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM) designed to help organizations plan, execute, and measure their software …

In terms of main threat actors, expectation rarely matches reality
Netwrix conducted a study of the major IT risks that are significant for most organizations and assessed respondents’ readiness to withstand cyber threats. The report is based …
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