cybersecurity

Four wireless standards hackers will target after Wi-Fi
When any new communication medium for sharing information emerges, it’s often quickly followed by those committed to hacking it. This natural progression is …

Healthcare industry: Attacks outpacing investments in personnel, education and resources
Recognizing that healthcare organizations are facing constant cyber attacks, the 2018 Impact of Cyber Insecurity on Healthcare Organizations study examines the myriad of …

Record surges in healthcare attacks, fileless malware, cryptocurrency mining
During Q4 2017, McAfee Labs saw on average eight new threat samples per second, and the increasing use of fileless malware attacks leveraging Microsoft PowerShell. The Q4 …

Global SOC maturity improves, yet some still operate with serious gaps in security
Despite the volume of threats rising, the global findings of a new Micro Focus report indicate that more mature Security Operational Centres (SOCs) are becoming more efficient …

Organizations are not doing enough to protect data privacy
In today’s data-driven society, privacy, security and trust are more vital and intertwined than ever before. But many organisations are not doing all they can to protect data …

Infrastructure security: Don’t just sit there, do something!
Around 4am on March 28, 1979, things started to go badly wrong deep inside the bowels of reactor number two at Three Mile Island. Routine maintenance to clear a blockage …

Cloud access management is integral to adopting cloud applications
The proliferation of cloud applications and use of a disparate range of devices within businesses has led to 64% of IT leaders admitting that their security teams are …

Intelligence sharing is crucial in the fight against cybercrime
Malware variants previously focused on the financial sector are now successfully attacking non-banking targets, according to Blueliv. A higher level of collaboration and …

The driving force of cloud security investments
A new Netwrix report supplements the 2018 Netwrix Cloud Security Report, unveiling survey findings specific to various industries and regions. Overall, 853 organizations …

Most top US higher ed institutions fail to protect students from phishing
88.8 percent of the root domains operated by top colleges and universities in the United States are putting their students, staff and other recipients at risk for phishing …

How can IoT stakeholders mitigate the risk of life-threatening cyberattacks?
With an estimated 20 billion Internet-connected devices set to appear in our homes and offices by the end of the decade, future cyberattacks will dwarf what we’ve seen …

Cyber attacks becoming No. 1 business risk
SonicWall recorded 9.32 billion malware attacks in 2017 and saw more than 12,500 new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) reported for the year. “The cyber arms race …