Laws, regulations and contracts that infosec pros should be familiar with
If you’re a white hat and you want to continue being one, knowing what laws and industry regulations allow or not allow (or require or not require) you to do is of …
Disttrack wiper malware hits Saudi Arabia’s aviation agency
Shamoon attackers with their Disttrack wiper malware have hit Saudi Arabian entities again. The Saudi government confirmed the latest breaches on Thursday, and for now the …
The global decline of cybersecurity confidence
Tenable Network Security solicited insights from 700 security practitioners in nine countries and across seven industry verticals to calculate a global index score reflecting …
Intentional or not, insider threats are real
Despite the perception that hackers are a company’s biggest cybersecurity threat, insiders, including careless or naive employees, are now viewed as an equally important …
Most email authentication implementations fail
Most of the world’s largest businesses fail at attempts to use open industry standards to control which email is sent using their names. Three quarters of large …
50% of businesses not leveraging public cloud
While more than 50 percent of respondents are not currently leveraging public cloud, 80 percent plan on migrating more within the next year, according to TriCore Solutions. As …
Week in review: Sextortion, Firefox 0-day, and next level red teaming
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, podcasts and articles: McAfee Labs predicts 14 security developments for 2017 Ransomware attacks …
Did Tesco Bank attackers guess victims’ payment card details?
A group of researchers from Newcastle University have discovered a practical and easy way for attackers to quickly guess individuals’ Visa payment card info needed to …
AirDroid app opens millions of Android users to device compromise
Tens of millions of users of AirDroid, a remote management tool for Android, are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks that could lead to data theft and their devices being …
65% of social engineering attacks compromised employee credentials
Social engineering is having a notable impact on organizations across a range of industrial sectors in the US. In fact, 60 percent of surveyed security leaders say their …
New infosec products of the week: December 2, 2016
Trend Micro offers Deep Security as a Service on AWS Marketplace Trend Micro announced the availability of Trend Micro Deep Security as a Service on AWS Marketplace. This new …
Massive cybercrime infrastructure demolished
After more than four years of investigation, the Public Prosecutor’s Office Verden and the Lüneburg Police in cooperation with the US Attorney’s Office for the Western …
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