insider threat

CERT updates insider threat guidebook
The CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University released the fifth edition of the Common Sense Guide to Mitigating Insider Threats. …

Corporate insiders sell secrets and access on dark web
Dark web marketplaces have witnessed an increase of employees offering insider traders, fraudsters and hackers information, help or outright access to their company’s …

82% of executives experienced a fraud incident in the past year
Fraud, cyber, and security incidents are now the “new normal” for companies across the world, according to the executives surveyed for a new Kroll report. The …

Mitigating internal risk: Three steps to educate employees
IT security is usually focused on how to prevent outsiders with malicious intent from causing harm to your IT systems and data. While this is a valid concern, people within …

12 tips for implementing secure business practices
Optiv Security shared a list of a dozen tips for implementing secure business practices during the 2016 holiday season. Security experts developed these recommendations to …

Former Expedia IT support worker spied on company executives
A computer support technician formerly employed at Expedia offices in San Francisco pleaded guilty to securities fraud. Jonathan Ly, 28, admitted he used his position in tech …

Intentional or not, insider threats are real
Despite the perception that hackers are a company’s biggest cybersecurity threat, insiders, including careless or naive employees, are now viewed as an equally important …

Was your data breach an inside job?
Kaspersky Lab revealed the current state of security threats among businesses and how their perception of threats compares to the reality of cybersecurity incidents …

The transformative impact of cloud adoption
Despite the average company using 1,427 cloud services to upload an average of 18.5 TB of data to cloud applications each month, less than 9 percent of cloud providers are …

Fraudsters accessed Three UK customer database with authorised credentials
Three UK, a telecom and ISP operating in the United Kingdom, has suffered a data breach. According to Three’s status report on the investigation, the attackers were able …

The decline of cyber resilience: Organizations unprepared to face attacks
Only 32 percent of IT and security professionals say their organisation has a high level of cyber resilience – down slightly from 35 percent in 2015, according to a global …

Tesco Bank hack shows that attackers continue to follow easy money
What happens when nearly 9,000 accounts at a financial institution experience fraudulent activity and clients have nearly £2.5 million stolen? People notice. The bank notices …
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