Fraudulent tax returns net nearly $4 billion for cybercriminals
ThreatMetrix announced the risks consumers face during tax season and strategies to protect taxpayer identities, especially when filing online returns. Of all potentially …
European IT pros reveal top reasons to monitor privileged users
BalaBit IT Security announced results of a recent survey of IT security professionals about use of privileged identity management (PIM) and privileged activity monitoring …
Cybersecurity concerns becoming a boardroom issue
The increasing frequency, sophistication, and business impact of cyber-attacks have pushed cybersecurity planning and protection from an operational concern of IT departments …
Major gaps found in the governance of emerging technologies
SailPoint published an infographic which outlines recent research results that indicate that while global enterprises are embracing – and in some instances mandating …
73% of companies are unprepared for disaster recovery
The Disaster Recovery Preparedness (DRP) Council announced findings from its benchmark study which show that 73% of respondent organizations worldwide are not taking adequate …
Scammers turn to Facebook for targeting
Scammers are increasingly taking advantage of Facebook targeting tools and user trust to push cheap pharmaceuticals, designer replicas and other products in a trend …
Trends shaping mobile forensics in 2014
Mobile forensic provider Cellebrite surveyed its customer base and conducted interviews with leading mobile forensic experts and analysts spanning the industry, asking their …
RSA Conference attendees ambivalent about NSA tactics
Thycotic Software announced the results of a survey of 341 RSA Conference USA 2014 attendees, which found that fewer than half (48%) of pollees feel the NSA overstepped its …
Third-party programs responsible for 76% of vulnerabilities in popular software
Third-party programs are responsible for 76% of the vulnerabilities discovered in the 50 most popular programs in 2013, say the results of Secunia’s Vulnerability Review …
Consumers want privacy, but don’t take advantage of opt-out technologies
A majority of consumers worry about how marketers use their personal data, but 79 percent are more likely to provide personal information to what they consider a …
97% of SaaS vendors use SAML-based single sign-on
OneLogin and the Cloud Security Alliance today announced findings from their OneLogin 2014 State of SaaS Identity Management survey, which was conducted to better understand …
Nearly half of companies assume they have been compromised
A majority of organizations are operating under the assumption that their network has already been compromised, or will be, according to a survey conducted by the SANS …
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