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A majority of companies don’t have the technology in place to keep employees from sharing confidential documents, according to a study released today.In particular, only 36 percent of over 600 IT practitioners at large companies said that their comp…

Shaming carriers and smartphone manufacturers into applying patches faster is a step forward, but a lot more needs to be done to improve security of the Android platform, security experts say.Last month, Bloomberg, citing unnamed sources, is conside…

As of the end of March, 93 percent of all phishing emails contained encryption ransomware, according to a report released today by PhishMe.That was up from 56 percent in December, and less than 10 percent every other month of last year.And the numbe…

In theory, nobody should be paying any money to the ransomware extortionists. Doesn’t everyone have backups these days? Even consumer has access to a wide variety of free or low-cost backup services.
But the headlines are full of reports about inst…

A recent test of pre-installed updater software on 10 laptops showed that every single one had security problems.”We went and bought about 10 laptops,” said Darren Kemp, security researcher at Duo Security. “And every single vendor had their own pie…

Last week, the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission called cybersecurity the biggest risk facing the global financial industry.”Cyber risks can produce far-reaching impacts,” said SEC chair Mary Jo White.For example, cybercriminals recent…

Cybercrime may be booming but its business model is vulnerable on many fronts, according to a new report.”We’ve been observing that they’ve been acting like a business for a while,” said Shogo Cottrell, security strategist at Hewlett Packard Enterpr…

Although cybercriminals have been turning out specialized hacking and attack tools at a rapid pace, terrorists are often using legitimate, consumer-focused technologies, according to a new Trend Micro report.”They’re abusing legitimate technology fo…

According to the most recent Verizon data breach report, a phishing email is often the first phase of an attack. That’s because it works well, with 30 percent of phishing messages opened, but only 3 percent reported to management.But when employees …

Peak-time distributed denial-of-service attacks cost organizations more than $100,000 per hour, said half of the respondents to a new survey of mid-sized and large corporations in the U.S. and Europe.And for a third of respondents, the average peak …

Peak-time distributed denial-of-service attacks cost organizations more than $100,000 per hour, said half of the respondents to a new survey of mid-sized and large corporations in the U.S. and Europe.And for a third of respondents, the average peak …

The ninth annual Verizon Data Breach Report came out this morning with bad news on multiple fronts, including click-through rates on phishing messages, how long it takes companies to detect breaches, and even whether companies spot the breaches at a…

Every couple of weeks or so, Tom Kemp’s company gets hit by ever-more-sophisticated attempts to trick them out of large sums of money.It started two years ago, before business email compromise — also known as CEO fraud — became as widely-known as …

Fifty-four zero-day vulnerabilities were discovered last year, according to a report released this morning by Symantec, more than double that of 2014, and the number of mega-breaches of more than 10 million records also hit a record high.In fact, th…

In early February, a thief broke into several offices in Olympia, Washington to steal anything he could grab that was worth selling. In one locked drawer, the thief found a couple of external hard drives that he added to his haul of cash, cameras, e…