Defense contractors, manufacturers targeted with malware-as-a-service infostealer
Information stealing FormBook malware is being lobbed at defense contractors, manufacturers and firms in the aerospace sector in the US and South Korea. Delivery methods The …
Do board members treat cybersecurity as a top priority?
Despite high profile cyberattacks continuing to occur, almost half of IT decision makers (ITDMs) at 250+ employee organizations around the world still believe that business …
Alleged cyberstalker unmasked by VPN logs
A Massachusetts man was arrested on cyberstalking charges after the online activities he tried to hide through VPN use were revealed by logs provided by PureVPN. “It is …
Hackers use organizations’ resources for stealthy cryptocurrency mining
Hackers lusting after cryptocurrency but not wanting to spend money to buy it or mine it are targeting users wallets, computers, popular Web sites and public cloud computing …
Patching discrepancy between supported Windows versions puts users at risk
Security improvements should be a welcome addition to all software, but if they are not also simultaneously backported into its older and still supported versions, they can …
Disqus, Forrester Research suffer data breach
Popular blog comment hosting service Disqus and market research company Forrester Research announced late on Friday that they’ve suffered a breach. While the latter was …
Cloud IT infrastructure revenue has almost tripled in the last four years
Vendor revenue from sales of infrastructure products (server, storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud IT, including public and private cloud, grew 25.8% year over year in the …
Week in review: Email tracking, DNS exfiltration, and secure coding in Java
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Leaving employees to manage their own password security is a mistake Despite the …
Leaving employees to manage their own password security is a mistake
Despite the clear and present danger that weak passwords pose to organizations, many remain focused on implementing technology based on policy, not the user, to address the …
New infosec products of the week: October 6, 2017
EclecticIQ Platform 2.0 gets intelligence reporting, new UI, and more To remove one of the biggest bottlenecks in threat investigation, EclecticIQ Platform 2.0 now includes …
Most decision makers expect ROI from artificial intelligence within two years
Cylance polled 652 IT decision makers in the U.S., UK, Germany and France, and found that optimism about the value of artificial intelligence-powered solutions in the …
Worldwide IT spending to reach $3.7 trillion in 2018
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.7 trillion in 2018, an increase of 4.3 percent from 2017 estimated spending of $3.5 trillion, according to the latest forecast …
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