Deadlines for investigating and reporting data breaches
75% of organisations set fixed time limits for investigating potential security incidents, according to Balabit. However, 44% of respondents reported missing internal or …
Week in review: Yahoo breach, malvertising targeting routers, the economics of ransomware
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Malvertising campaign compromises routers instead of computers The attackers current …
New infosec products of the week: December 16, 2016
Ixia enhances network assessment and monitoring platform Ixia’s Hawkeye, which proactively generates and analyzes synthetic network and application traffic to assess how …
Nagios Core 4.2.4 closes serious root privilege escalation bug
If you’re using Nagios Core to monitor your systems, networks and infrastructure, and you have not updated to version 4.2.4, you better hop to it. This latest release …
Malvertising campaign compromises routers instead of computers
The DNSChanger exploit kit is back and more effective than ever, and is being used in a widespread malvertising attack whose goal is to compromise small/home office routers. …
Delayed breach notifications open door to regulatory fines
As more data breaches occur everyday and more data privacy regulations come into force, such as EU GDPR, organizations are beginning to make data governance and data …
Evernote employees will be able to read notes only if users allow it
Evernote has recently announced that, starting on January 23, 2017, Evernote users’ unencrypted notes will be accessible to some Evernote employees. The change to the …
Growth rates of cryptographic keys and certificates
A new study conducted by Dimensional Research evaluated current and projected growth rates of cryptographic keys and digital certificates in the enterprise for 2016 and 2017. …
One billion users affected in newly revealed Yahoo hack
Yahoo has revealed that it’s been the victim of another hack and massive data breach that resulted in the compromise of information of a billion users! What happened? …
The economics of ransomware revealed
70 percent of businesses infected with ransomware have paid ransom to regain access to business data and systems. In comparison, over 50 percent of consumers surveyed said …
Google publishes eight national security letters
Have you ever wondered what a national security letter (NSL) received by Google looks like? Well, wonder no more, as the Internet giant has published eight of them. Along with …
Consumers worry more about cybercrime than physical crime
Consumers are more worried about cybercrime than physical world crime, according to Sophos. The survey polled 1,250 consumers in the US, UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. …