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The US Justice Department unsealed on Thursday an indictment charging seven Iranian computer specialists for conducting a coordinated campaign of distributed denial of service …

In my work as a penetration tester for SureCloud, I’m often asked to look at unusual, out-of-the-ordinary vulnerabilities. This was the case when a major UK financial …

The IRS is now taking up to 21 days to review a tax return. Last year, a similar tax return took seven days to review, according to iovation. This increase of taking up to …

Former US State Department employee Michael C. Ford has been sentenced to four years, and nine months in prison for perpetrating a widespread, international e-mail phishing, …

The amount of data being created, shared and stored is growing exponentially. With more people accessing and storing files in a multitude of network and cloud repositories, …

One hundred and fifty enterprise IT security professionals from a wide range of industries were surveyed by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) to gain a better understanding of …

To understand any businesses’ security posture, one must first understand the eight categories of cybersecurity that is impacted: security intelligence, fraud, people, …

Recent breaches demonstrate the urgent need to secure enterprise identities against cyberthreats that target today’s hybrid IT environment of cloud, mobile and on-premises. …

A surprising disconnect exists between employees’ growing concern over the security of their personal information and their attitudes toward data security practices in …

Amazon’s “Selfie Authentication” allows the site’s customers to user facial recognition to authenticate themselves to the website in order to make a purchase. While not …

Lynis is a popular open source security auditing tool, used to evaluate the security defenses of their Linux/Unix-based systems. It runs on the host itself, so it performs …

The increasing popularity of DDoS attacks as a tool to disrupt, harass, terrorize and sabotage online businesses is boosting demand for mitigation solutions. In the face of …