Biometric data such as fingerprint scans is being collected too widely and too casually, according to security company Protegrity USA.”Today, many of the major banks are using biometrics to log into your accounts on your mobile devices,” said Proteg…
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Between 5 and 15 percent of all visitors to some banking websites see ads there that don’t belong, according to some cybersecurity surveys. Some of those ads are barely legal browser plugins and extensions or ads placed by mobile carriers trying to make more money from abusing their users’ trust. However, increasingly such ads are
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Companies that create tools for “rooting” Android phones may be within the law, but they may be inadvertently paving the way for malware developers.According to a paper presented this week by University of California professor Zhiyun Qian, the devel…
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Non-technical health care employees are too complacent about the possibility of a data breach, and few are aware that it has happened to their organizations, according to a survey released today of employees at large and mid-sized health care organi…
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In the war between malvertisers and legitimate advertising networks, the bad guys seems to be winning. Attackers use real-time bidding platforms to place malicious ads on otherwise reputable sites, infect target users and disappear — often before a…
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Application attacks against clouds jumped 45 percent last year, according to a new report from Houston-based cloud security firm Alert Logic, Inc.The report was based on an analysis of one billion security events in the IT environments of more than …
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The majority of large companies have experienced a breach over the past twelve months, but almost a quarter, 23 percent, of firms do not know how the hackers got in, according to a new survey.
“That was pretty eye-opening,” said Tim Helming, direct…
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The average U.S. company of 1,000 employees or more spends $15 million a year battling cybercrime, up 20 percent compared to last year, according to a report released today.Attacks involving malicious code, malware, viruses, worms, trojans and botne…
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The average global 5,000 company spends about $15 million to recover from the loss of business due to a certificate outage — and faces another $25 million in potential compliance impact.
These estimates, based on a Ponemon survey of about 2,400 gl…
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The other day, I was in a room full of CIOs, CTOs and CISOs who — as an ice-breaking activity — were asked to share a bad security habit. One after the other admitted to bad password hygiene, such as reusing passwords.I was the only one in the roo…
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Companies in the healthcare sector are three times more likely to encounter data theft than the average firm, according to a report released this morning.The industry also sees 340 percent more security incidents and attacks than usual, said Carl Le…
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Three times as many credit cards will be chip-enabled by the end of the year as debit cards, making the slower banks bigger targets for cybercriminals.According to Deborah Baxley, principal for cards and payments at Capgemini Financial Services, an …
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Members of the Russian military have been receiving well-crafted phishing emails since mid-summer from attackers that use Chinese-language tools and Chinese command-and-control installations, according to a report released yesterday.The campaign als…
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Containers offer a quick and easy way to package up applications and all their dependencies, and are popular with testing and development.According to a recent survey sponsored by container data management company Cluster HQ, 73 percent of enterpris…
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Containers offer a quick and easy way to package up applications and all their dependencies, and are popular with testing and development.According to a recent survey sponsored by container data management company Cluster HQ, 73 percent of enterpris…
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