A report released today by PhishMe based on the results of 8 million phishing simulations shows that employees can dramatically improve their ability to detect phishing emails with practice, and can be trained to forward them to security staff.
Whi…
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Due to reporting guidelines, lost and stolen devices account for 45 percent of all breaches in Verizon’s new health care data breach report, accounting for 45 percent of around 2,000 incidents with total losses of more than 392 million records.Misce…
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IT budgets are expected to see a rumble of activity in the wake of the Safe Harbor earthquake.In a new Ovum survey of IT decision makers at international companies, 70 percent said they expect to increase spending next year, 66 percent expect to hav…
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Last summer, law enforcement agencies from 20 countries joined forces to shut down the notorious Darkode hacking forum. Organizers said they would be back, stronger than ever.Security researchers have been keeping an eye out for its resurgence ever …
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Last summer, law enforcement agencies from 20 countries joined forces to shut down the notorious Darkode hacking forum. Organizers said they would be back, stronger than ever.Security researchers have been keeping an eye out for its resurgence ever …
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According to a new report by Trend Micro, the North American cyber criminal underground isn’t buried as deep as in other geographies.
“It doesn’t exist in the dark web as much as other undergrounds do, or practice as much security,” said Tom Keller…
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According to a new report by Trend Micro, the North American cyber criminal underground isn’t buried as deep as in other geographies.
“It doesn’t exist in the dark web as much as other undergrounds do, or practice as much security,” said Tom Keller…
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According to an analysis of over 200,000 applications, PHP is the programming language with the most vulnerabilities, mobile apps suffer from cryptography problems, and developers are more likely to fix errors found with static instead of dynamic an…
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According to an analysis of over 200,000 applications, PHP is the programming language with the most vulnerabilities, mobile apps suffer from cryptography problems, and developers are more likely to fix errors found with static instead of dynamic an…
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There are now more than 3 billion connected devices in use by consumers, according to Gartner, and this number will increase to 4 billion next year.
A big chunk of that increase will come as a result of the holiday season, when 65 percent of Americans say they plan to buy consumer electronics gifts, according to an October report by the Consumer Electronics Association. The amount of spending on tech will reach $34.2 billion, making the the biggest tech shopping season on record, according to Shawn DuBravac, CEA’s chief economist and senior director of research.
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The ModPOS malware has already hit multiple national retailers and compromised millions of cards, according to new research released this morning, but there are likely to be more infections still out there since this particular malware is extremely …
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Much like Pandora identifies patterns in music to come up with new songs that its users might like, OpenDNS is listening to the traffic patterns of the Internet as a whole in order to spot patterns of malicious activity.The company processes more th…
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A new botnet is specifically targeting large corporations, taking over user machines to generate high-value ad fraud, according to a new report from Pixalate.The Xindi botnet first appeared last fall, but has really taken off since August. It has al…
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In a sign of the increasing professionalization of the space, exploit kit activity increased 75 percent in the third quarter of this year compared to the same period last year, based on DNS activity, according to the latest edition of the Infoblox DNS Threat Index.
The index measures the creation of malicious DNS infrastructure, including exploit kits. Four exploit kits—Angler, Magnitude, Neutrino, and Nuclear—accounted for 96 percent of total activity in the category for the third quarter, reported IID, the company providing data for the index.
Criminals use DNS infrastructure in three ways, according to Rod Rasmussen, president and CTO at IID.
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Layered security is currently considered a best practice for enterprises, since a single layer of defense against attackers is no longer enough. Sometimes, however, these layers can have unintended consequences and even make a company less secure th…
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