Last week, Visa, MasterCard and American Expressed delayed the EMV migration deadline for gas stations from October 2017 to October 2020 — but that doesn’t mean that gas stations can now relax their EMV upgrade plans.According to Gray Taylor, execu…
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In the wake of reports about Russian involvement in fake news and hacks against political targets leading up to the recent presidential election, scholars and security experts are calling for federal action.As of Sunday, 158 scholars have signed an …
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In a study of 1 million corporate domains, only 60,000 had made any attempt at DMARC email authentication, and of those, only a quarter actually had enforcement mechanisms in place, according to a report released today by ValiMail.DMARC — domain-ba…
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The city of Lewiston, in north central Idaho, has a population of around 32,000 and an information systems budget of around $800,000 a year.But it wasn’t too small for attackers. For example, the city council meetings, streamed online, were being wa…
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Most cybercriminals make between $1,000 and $3,000 a month, but 20 percent earn $20,000 a month or more, according to a recent report.The data is based on a survey conducted by a closed underground community, said report author Andrei Barysevich, di…
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There’s more to the Internet than most people are aware of.
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The vast majority of companies hit by ransomware attacks were able to stop the attacks by either preventing the malware from getting to their files, by successfully decrypting the files, or by restoring the files from backups, according to a report …
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Service providers that run the backbone of the internet need to have a coordinated response to deal with a global distributed denial of service attack, security experts say.
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Networked security cameras are the most likely to have vulnerabilities when it comes to securing Internet of Things devices in the enterprise, according to a new report by Zscaler.”I would consider the entire video camera category as particularly da…
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Last week, Facebook CSO Alex Stamos told conference attendees in Lisbon that the company buys stolen passwords on the black market, and some security experts are questioning the ethics and benefits of this approach.
“Paying for stolen passwords only reinforces the criminal business model and further encourages hackers to steal passwords,” said Amichai Shulman, founder and CTO at Redwood Shores, Calif.-based security vendor Imperva, Inc.
Paying off hackers has other consequences as well.
“You don’t know where that money’s going to go,” said Javvad Malik, security advocate at San Mateo, Calif.-based AlienVault, Inc.. “That money is likely to go towards funding more criminal activity.”
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