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How to ensure your IT and security teams stay aligned amid digital transformation
Even for sensitive industries, the movement to cloud-based technologies is generally accepted as a cost-effective and efficient infrastructure strategy and immediate priority. …
Cybercrime shifts: Rise of Russian cybercrime, attacks on cryptocurrency marketplaces
Cryptocurrency marketplaces, designed to facilitate trading on the full range of digital currencies, are experiencing a range of fraudulent activity. The world of …
Worldwide spending on blockchain services to reach $8.1 billion in 2021
Interest and investment in blockchain as an emerging technology is accelerating as firms seek secure, sequential, and immutable solutions to improve business processes, enable …
February Patch Tuesday forecast: Key updates to act on
Love is in the air! Can’t you feel it? This Patch Tuesday falls the day before the most romantic day of the year – Valentine’s Day! We’ve been hearing …
Week in review: Crypto-mining malware hits SCADA network, server-side exploits dominate threat landscape
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: When crypto-mining malware hits a SCADA network Radiflow has recently discovered …
Server-side exploits dominate the threat landscape
Skybox Security released its inaugural Vulnerability and Threat Trends Report, which analyzes vulnerabilities, exploits and threats in play in 2017. Cybercrime is a …
Integrated IT: The changing role of technology across organizations
The role that IT is playing in business is changing: 85% of the IT professionals surveyed by Insight noted that their executives view the organization as an IT company at …
Most remain dissatisfied with threat intelligence quality and accuracy
While security professionals are increasingly recognizing the importance of threat intelligence, the majority remain dissatisfied with its accuracy and quality, according to a …
Credential phishing kits target victims differently depending on location
There is a new attack vector in town – the customization of phishing kits. In a recent case uncovered by PhishMe Intelligence, a phishing kit was crafted to target …
99 percent of domains are not protected by DMARC
Essentially every global domain is vulnerable to phishing and domain name spoofing. A new report incorporates data from Agari, revealing that 90 percent of its customers have …
IT ops and engineering are embracing automation to increase business agility
Based on a survey of nearly 700 engineering and operations individuals globally, a report by Indeni and GNS3 reveals a programming knowledge gap that is having an impact on …
2017 was extraordinary: 5,200 breaches exposed 7.8 billion records
Once again, the record has been broken for both the most breaches and the most data compromised in a year. There were 5,207 breaches recorded last year, surpassing 2015’s …