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Seizing cyber resilience mastery in financial services
Despite the volume of cyberattacks doubling in 2017, financial services firms are closing the gap on cyberattacks, having stopped four in five of all breach attempts last …

Awareness and tendency towards risky online behavior
Spanning Cloud Apps announced the results of a survey of over 400 full-time U.S. employees on their awareness of and tendency towards risky online behavior. The study …

Break out of malware myopia by focusing on the fundamentals
Organizations today suffer from malware myopia, a condition characterized by threat-centric security programs caused by the ease of imagining a takedown by malicious code. …

How to gain visibility with global IT asset inventory
In this podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2018, Pablo Quiroga, Director of Product Management at Qualys, talks about how to gain unprecedented visibility with global IT asset …

Data privacy automation: Unlock your most valuable asset
In years past, data privacy was the purview of the chief privacy officer. However, increasingly, CTOs are being tasked with operationalizing a data privacy solution for the …

Week in review: API security, malware-less email attacks, reversing the cybersecurity skills shortage
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: What can we do to reverse the cybersecurity skills shortage? Having a strong pipeline …

Hackers wage a new Cold War
The Cold War of the mid-twentieth century played out as a truly epic conflict. The U.S. and the Soviet Union mobilized spies across the globe, supported proxy armies from the …

Analysis of half-a-billion emails reveals malware-less email attacks are on the rise
FireEye analyzed over half-a-billion emails from 1H 2018, and found that 32% of email traffic seen in the first half of 2018 was considered ‘clean’ and actually delivered to …

Researchers exploring how IoT apps can imitate human decisions
CA Technologies announced its participation in scientific research to discover how Internet of Things (IoT) applications can use a type of AI known as ‘deep learning’ to …

DDoS attack frequency grows 40%, low volume attacks dominate
The frequency of DDoS attacks have once again risen, this time by 40% year on year, according to Corero Network Security. While frequency has increased, the duration of …

Mobile fraud is increasing, attack rates rising 24% year-over-year
ThreatMetrix released new cybercrime insights from the first half of 2018, revealing a sharp rise in fraud attack levels on mobile transactions. As consumer behavior …

Phished credentials caused twice as many breaches than malware in the past year
Personal device use for remote work poses the biggest security risk to organisations safeguarding their increasingly mobile and cloud-based IT environment, according to a new …
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