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What can we expect from 2016? A growth in online extortion, hacktivism and mobile malware
Next year, continued growth in online extortion, hacktivism and mobile malware is expected, as well as a shift to an offensive cybersecurity posture for government entities …
The security community’s reaction as CISA passes US Senate
On Tuesday, the US Senate has passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), a legislation that will allow companies to share information about the cyber attacks …
Social experiment: 200 USB flash drives left in public locations
Nearly one in five people who found a random USB stick in a public setting proceeded to use the drive in ways that posed cybersecurity risks to their personal devices and …
One in 20 apps on private PCs are end-of-life
Secunia Research revealed the state of security for PC users in a total of 14 countries, including the US. One in 20 applications on private US PCs are end-of-life and 12 …
The average organization experiences 9 insider threats each month
After analyzing actual cloud usage across over 23 million employees, Skyhigh Networks uncovered how user behaviours put companies at risk and how catching and managing this …
WhatsApp collects phone numbers, call duration, and more!
A recent network forensic examination of popular messaging service WhatsApp is offering new details on the data that can be collected from the app’s network from its new …
IT admits obstacles to user mobility due to security concerns
Organizations are challenged to meet demands for greater mobility as 92% of IT departments worldwide still restrict users from accessing sensitive corporate data and resources …
W3C to make payments easier and more secure
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) launched the Web Payments Working Group to help streamline the online “check-out” process and make payments easier and more …
The top 6 scariest cloud security mistakes and how to avoid them
As Halloween approaches, the only thing more frightening than a house of horrors is a security threat to your enterprise cloud system. One slip-up could not only be …
Cloud-based vulnerability management: Top vendors in the field
With an increasingly fast-paced threat landscape threatening even the most complex network security infrastructures, vulnerability management has become essential.Many vendors …
What should companies do after a wide-scale data breach?
It is not always possible to prevent such attacks, however, it is possible to make them highly unlikely to succeed. It is also possible to limit the extent of possible damage …
Nine arrested in UK investigation of criminal network defrauding bank customers
Detectives investigating an organized criminal network responsible for defrauding bank customers across the UK out of approximately £60 million have arrested nine …
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