security awareness

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 …

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 …

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 …

Security awareness has long been a point of frustration for information security professionals. While many organizations conduct awareness training of some kind, they have …

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 …

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 …

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 …

At Black Hat, CrowdStrike announced the launch of the CrowdStrike Intelligence Exchange Program (CSIX). The exchange enables vendor partners to access and share threat …

Wise to attackers’ exploitation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) vulnerability to create distributed reflection denial of service (DrDoS) attacks, information security …

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 …

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 …

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 …