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Attackers have become more proficient at taking advantage of gaps in security to evade detection and conceal malicious activity, according to Cisco. Defenders, namely, …

UPDATE: Tuesday, 20 January 2015, 1:10 PT – Jericho from Attrition.org has written an insightful post that essentially debunks the data released by DB Networks. …

More than 770 million biometric authentication applications will be downloaded per annum by 2019, up from just 6 million this year. This will reduce dependence on alphanumeric …

By carrying out “white hat’ attacks to identify potential entry points in the externally facing parts of an organization’s IT network, such as its firewalls, …

ENISA publishes a good practice guide on Actionable Information for Security Incident Response, aiming to provide a picture of the challenges national CERTs and other security …

Although the Sony attack was loud, damaging and hugely embarrassing to the company, the bigger threat is from mercenary hacker crews who steal billions of dollars of valuable …

Enterprises spend $1.3 million a year dealing with false positive cyber security alerts, which equals nearly 21,000 hours in wasted time. The Ponemon Institute surveyed more …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: LizardSquad’s DDoS service is powered by hacked home routers The preponderance …

Officers from the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU) Cyber Crime Unit, supported by Titan ROCU (North West Regional Organised Crime Unit), have arrested a man …

The forthcoming Office of Civil Rights (OCR) audits for HIPAA compliance have seen some delays this fall – but that doesn’t mean covered organizations can delay …

A spam campaign revealing the 10 Hottest Snapchats is a new entry to the long list of Facebook scams flooding the social network. Bitdefender’s Labs have now blacklisted …

Over the past few months, AdaptiveMobile has tracked an increase of spam complexity on messaging apps, such as WhatsApp, in the United States, Europe and India, and expects …