As the threat landscape evolves, it becomes a game of survival of the fittest. Only the best attacks and attackers remain standing, and the result is a series of targeted ransomware attacks that now cost global enterprises millions of dollars per year. This is among the important findings of the Sophos 2019 Threat...
Google is investigating an unorthodox routing of internet traffic that on Monday sent traffic bound for its cloud services instead to internet service providers in Nigeria, Russia and China. Security experts say border gateway protocol is to blame and no easy fix is in sight.
French film production and distribution company Pathe fired the two senior managers overseeing its Dutch operations after they fell victim to a business email compromise scam and approved $21 million in transfers to fraudsters. Many organizations remain at high risk from such scams.
A vulnerability is only as bad as the threat exploiting it and the impact on the organization. Security and risk management leaders should rate vulnerabilities on the basis of risk in order to improve vulnerability management program effectiveness.
Gartner receives frequent inquiries from clients who are...
Hackers behind the FASTCash ATM cash-out attack campaign - tied by the U.S. government to North Korea - use Trojan code designed to exploit bank networks running outdated versions of IBM's AIX Unix operating system, Symantec warns.
The days of effective CISOs being pure-play technologists are long gone. Instead, CISO Paul Swarbrick says the role demands someone who is expert "in people, and management and risk," and who is skilled at bringing to bear the right experts for every strategic challenge they identify.
How can organizations get the most out of partnering with managed security services providers and avoid common pitfalls? Cybersecurity consultant Vito Sardanopoli, an experienced CISO, offers top tips.
Join our expert as we look into some of the most effective and crippling threat trends from the last quarter, including a rise in the use of cryptojacking with refined sophistication, making it harder to detect.
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The current threat landscape and future trends to watch out...
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned on Thursday at the request of President Donald Trump. While long expected, the move raises questions about the fate of an ongoing investigation into Russia's election hacking.
This research report examines the difference in time between when a public exploit for a vulnerability is published
and when users actively assess it. These two events represent the first move the attacker and defender make.
The premise of this paper is that this delta is an indicative metric in determining Cyber...
In this report we analyze real-world end-user vulnerability assessment (VA) behavior using a machine learning (ML)
algorithm to identify four distinct strategies, or "styles." These are based on five VA key performance indicators (KPIs)
which correlate to VA maturity characteristics.
This study specifically focuses...
As the modern attack surface rapidly expands, companies must get the basics right. Yet each time a data security breach hits the news, there are reactionary questions are what could have been done to avoid the problem. More often than not these incidents occur because organizations commonly overlook basic security...
This 2018 Osterman Research Survey Report focused on understanding current security processes and how organizations are working to improve and automate them.
The research was conducted in the US, EMEA and APAC regions with 465 professional respondents who were knowledgeable about security policy management in their...
The challenge when designing technology for critical national infrastructure sectors is that it must be securable today and remain resilient to cyberattacks for decades to come, says cybersecurity Professor Prashant Pillai.
Georgia quietly fixed two flaws in its voter registration website that could have exposed personal information. How the secretary of state's office discovered the flaws and reacted suggests it may have erred when making a sensational accusation against the Democrats on the eve of the U.S. midterm elections.
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