Mobile bad bots running across most top mobile operators
During 2013, Distil Networks fingerprinted and catalogued 2.2 billion bad bots, or 31 percent of the bad bots that exist in Distil’s database of 7-billion bad bots. Bad …
Exchanging threat intelligence becoming essential
A new Ponemon Institute survey included more than 700 IT and IT security pros, across businesses and government agencies with an average of 12,000 employees, who answered more …
Dissecting the unpredictable DDoS landscape
DDoS attacks are now more unpredictable and damaging than ever, crippling websites, shutting down operations, and costing millions of dollars in downtime, customer support and …
Nine patterns make up 92 percent of security incidents
Verizon security researchers have found that 92 percent of the 100,000 security incidents analyzed over the past ten years can be traced to nine basic attack patterns that …
Insights from attack trends in the cloud
Drawing on data obtained from a customer base of 2,200, Alert Logic found a significant increase in activity across cloud and hosting environments compared to last …
Organizations remain vulnerable to SQL injection attacks
Privacy and information security research firm Ponemon Institute, along with DB Networks, an innovator of behavioral analysis in database security, today announced the results …
Understanding risk is a top security concern
The biggest challenge for organizations is prioritizing, understanding and addressing vulnerabilities in a business context, according to an AlgoSec survey conducted during …
Security pros largely unhappy with compliance methods
Despite the fact that 63% consider regulatory compliance to be “very important”, a new Osterman study shows a low satisfaction level with current methods of …
Attackers use reflection techniques for larger DDoS attacks
Akamai announced a new global DDoS attack report, which shows that in Q1, DDoS attackers relied less upon traditional botnet infection in favor of reflection and amplification …
Security pros and government failing to collaborate
Infosecurity Europe has today released a new report that provides a snapshot of the industry landscape and the challenges it is currently facing. Having surveyed 1,149 …
SharePoint users are breaching security policies
A study, conducted amongst attendees at last month’s Microsoft’s SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, has found that at least 36% of SharePoint users are breaching …
Security pros actively hiding negative facts from executives
A new Ponemon Institute study exposes a severe gap in security visibility and perception between C-level executives and IT security staff. In nearly 60 percent of the …
Featured news
Resources
Don't miss
- Why we must go beyond tooling and CVEs to illuminate security blind spots
- Making security and development co-owners of DevSecOps
- Review: Passwork 7.0, self-hosted password manager for business
- What a mature OT security program looks like in practice
- Machine unlearning gets a practical privacy upgrade