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90% of directors believe regulators should hold firms liable for hacks
A new Veracode and NYSE Governance Services survey of 276 board members reveals how cybersecurity-related corporate liability is being prioritized in the boardroom.Nine out of …
Four ways organizations can prevent PII from becoming black market public record
Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is worth 10 times more than credit card information on the black market, making it imperative to have strong policies and safeguards …
Business leaders increasingly drive cloud migration
Vanson Bourne polled 500 UK IT and business decision-makers who have either been through or are currently planning a cloud migration project. They found that the decision to …
10% of enterprises have at least one compromised device
As the future of work evolves toward mobility, so will the future of data breaches and cybercrime. Recent attacks targeted mobile apps and operating systems to exfiltrate …
Raw threat data is not effective, it’s time for threat intelligence
A new Ponemon Institute survey includes insight from 692 IT and IT security professionals from both global businesses and government agencies, who answered more than …
XcodeGhost gets updated, now hits also US users
The XcodeGhost threat is far from over, and iOS users are still in danger of unknowingly using apps infected with it, FireEye researchers have warned.“After monitoring …
Hard-hitting insights into global attacks targeting organizations
After collecting and analyzing data, based on a comprehensive review of incident response investigations conducted over the past three years on behalf of organizations across …
Open source tool checks for vulnerabilities on Android devices
OEMs like Samsung and HTC run heavily customized versions of Android. Unfortunately, the OEM patch deployment infrastructure is disorganized and too often end users are left …
Understanding a new security market: User behavior analytics
We know that tracking enterprise log data to discover suspicious activity from hackers or malicious insider threats is not a new idea. Five to 10 years ago, we saw the SIEM …
Stanford researchers identify potential security hole in genomic data-sharing network
Sharing genomic information among researchers is critical to the advance of biomedical research. Yet genomic data contains identifiable information and, in the wrong hands, …
The value in vulnerability management platforms
A study conducted by Forrester Consulting assessed IT decision makers’ satisfaction with their current vulnerability management platforms and the challenges companies …
The growth of mobile malware and online banking attacks
Kaspersky Lab explored the increase in mobile threats, malware attempts to steal from consumer online bank accounts and targeted cyberattacks in the evolving threat …
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