ICS-CERT releases new tools for securing industrial control systems
The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) has published newer versions of two tools that can help administrators with securing industrial control …
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Which celebrities generate the most dangerous search results?
Female comedian Amy Schumer knocked DJ Armin van Buuren off of the list to become the most dangerous celebrity to search for online, according to Intel Security. Now in its …
Mobile security stripped bare: Why we need to start again
We’re all familiar with the cartoon image of a character stopping a water leak by plugging a finger into the hole, only for another leak to start, needing another finger, and …
Incident response survival guide
All organizations are impacted by a security breach at some point. As the joke goes in the security industry, businesses fall into two categories: those that have been …
Top five GDPR myths
At this moment, there are many misunderstandings surrounding the new GDPR legislation. These rules will affect any business that handles personal data, and therefore the …
UK: Financial fraud soars
More than 1 million incidents of financial fraud – payment card, remote banking and cheque fraud – occurred in the first six months of 2016, according to official …
Why DNS shouldn’t be used for data transport
Malicious DNS tunnelling is a big problem in cybersecurity. The technique involves the use of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol to smuggle sensitive corporate or personal …
Students unaware about ransomware costs, impact
A new Webroot survey reveals a disconnect between what college students say they would pay to access personal data being held for ransom and the reality of actual ransomware …
Improve SecOps by making collaboration easier
There’s one word that we’ve consistently been hearing from information security pundits year after year: Collaboration. More often than not, they were talking …
Five ways to respond to the ransomware threat
The ransomware threat has taken a sharp upturn this year. In fact, a recent industry study found that nearly half of all U.S. businesses have experienced at least one …
