63% of orgs believe they can’t stop data theft
Websense released the first report of the Ponemon Institute survey, “Exposing the Cybersecurity Cracks: A Global Perspective,” which gives new insight into why …
Widespread uncertainty about cloud security
More and more organizations are transferring sensitive or confidential information to public cloud services even though more than a third expect a negative impact on security …
IoT is inevitable, but security and privacy is a top concern
The Internet of Things – everyday objects connected to the Web – currently seems like an inescapable future. There is a market for such things and devices, but …
Infosec problems create stress for IT departments
A new IT Admin Stress Survey from GFI Software revealed that 68% of IT staff are actively considering leaving their current role due to job-related stress, despite apparent …
How cybercriminals profit from money laundering through gambling sites
A new report by McAfee sheds light on the underground world of online gambling. It identifies the proliferation of online casinos, an industry set to grow nearly 30% over the …
DrDoS attacks to reach 800 Gbps in 2015
While the network time protocol (NTP) DrDoS threats that became prevalent in early 2014 have been contained, new distributed reflected denial of service threats will lead to …
Mobile bad bots running across most top mobile operators
During 2013, Distil Networks fingerprinted and catalogued 2.2 billion bad bots, or 31 percent of the bad bots that exist in Distil’s database of 7-billion bad bots. Bad …
Exchanging threat intelligence becoming essential
A new Ponemon Institute survey included more than 700 IT and IT security pros, across businesses and government agencies with an average of 12,000 employees, who answered more …
Dissecting the unpredictable DDoS landscape
DDoS attacks are now more unpredictable and damaging than ever, crippling websites, shutting down operations, and costing millions of dollars in downtime, customer support and …
Nine patterns make up 92 percent of security incidents
Verizon security researchers have found that 92 percent of the 100,000 security incidents analyzed over the past ten years can be traced to nine basic attack patterns that …
Insights from attack trends in the cloud
Drawing on data obtained from a customer base of 2,200, Alert Logic found a significant increase in activity across cloud and hosting environments compared to last …
Organizations remain vulnerable to SQL injection attacks
Privacy and information security research firm Ponemon Institute, along with DB Networks, an innovator of behavioral analysis in database security, today announced the results …
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