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New DDoS attacks misuse NetBIOS name server, RPC portmap, and Sentinel licensing servers
Akamai has observed three new reflection DDoS attacks in recent months: NetBIOS name server reflection, RPC portmap reflection, and Sentinel reflection.In a reflection DDoS …
Are IT security pros optimistic or naïve?
Half of IT security practitioners in the U.S. view their organization as an unlikely target for attack, according to a Ponemon Institute survey of 614 IT security …
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 …
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