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One proven path to improving any organization’s security posture is to embrace the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s risk management framework set forth in its …

Intel Security released a global report advocating the need for technology vendors to help businesses, governments and consumers understand the implications surrounding …

About a quarter of American adults reported that they were notified about their personal information being part of a data breach in the previous year, but only 11 percent of …

The Edge in Amsterdam is one of the smartest office buildings in the world. The state-of-the-art offices include 28,000 connected sensors for motion, light, temperature, …

With high profile breaches becoming almost a daily occurrence in the media, many organizations are now turning to the ISO 27001 information security standard to help them stay …

In 2015, the number of zero-day vulnerabilities discovered more than doubled to a record-breaking 54, a 125 percent increase from the year before, reaffirming the critical …

A new strain of Qbot, malicious software that steals user credentials and creates backdoors on targeted devices, has infected over 54,000 PCs in thousands of organisations …

Attacks on industrial control systems (ICSs) are increasing in frequency – and have become a reality we can no longer ignore. Securing these networks poses unique …

In 2005, the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) began monitoring and tallying the ever-growing number of US security breaches. Since then, the organization has seen a 397 …

The Panama Papers security breach is a juicy, made-for-the-Internet scandal. It has all the elements – secret off-shore accounts; involvement by international politicians, …

Netwrix released Netwrix Auditor 8.0. The new version of the IT auditing platform simplifies detection of security threats and enables organizations to gain control over …

Microsoft just released several security bulletins, with six marked as critical and seven categorized as important. The biggest surprise (or disguise) came in the patch marked …