security awareness
Education is the key to increasing mobile security
The swathes of high-profile security breaches in recent months have only served to highlight the need to educate the public on the inadequacies of the security systems …
FBI warns of malicious insider threats increase
The FBI and DHS have issued a warning to businesses about the increase in security incidents involving malicious insiders (current or former employees, contractors, or other …
Mounting evidence points towards Home Depot breach
Still officially unconfirmed, a Home Depot hack looks increasingly likely to have happened. As Nicole Perlroth noted, the source of stolen card information can be discovered …
5 tips for security behavior management programs
Security awareness has long been a point of frustration for information security professionals. While many organizations conduct awareness training of some kind, they have …
Heartbleed still a critical threat
Cyber attackers have been quick to exploit the Hearbleed OpenSSL bug, to the tune of hundreds of thousand attacks per day in the week after the public revelation of its …
Coder tries shaming apps and site owners into using HTTPS
How can we force website owners and software developers to start using HTTPS? Coder Tony Webster believes shaming might be the right answer. To that point, he created a …
Five steps to take to protect your passwords
A report issued this week claimed that a Russian cybercrime group stole 1.2 billion usernames and passwords from 420,000 websites. While some security experts question the …
CrowdStrike launches Intelligence Exchange Program
At Black Hat, CrowdStrike announced the launch of the CrowdStrike Intelligence Exchange Program (CSIX). The exchange enables vendor partners to access and share threat …
DDoS attack volumes plummet as NTP servers got patched
Wise to attackers’ exploitation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) vulnerability to create distributed reflection denial of service (DrDoS) attacks, information security …
New game sharpens secure coding skills
Today at Black Hat, Checkmarx launched Game of Hacks, a challenging game for software developers and security professionals to test their application hacking skills, improve …
IT security training: Be proactive
Security is a fast paced industry. You only need to use the Internet for a short time to understand how and why the activities of digital criminals pose a real and significant …
Why security awareness matters
In this interview, Paulo Pagliusi, CEO at MPSafe Cybersecurity Awareness, talks about the value of security awareness and how it influences the overall security posture of an …