Security spending rises in areas ineffective against multi-stage attacks
Vormetric announced the results of the Financial Services Edition of the 2016 Vormetric Data Threat Report (DTR). This edition extends earlier findings of the global report, …
Top 20 risk factors for retailers
According to BDO’s analysis of risk factors listed in the most recent 10-K filings of the 100 largest US retailers, risk associated with a possible security breach was …
Week in review: Docker security, SWIFT warns of new attacks, SAP vulnerability exploited
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: SWIFT warns of new attacks, Bangladesh Bank heist linked to Sony hack They believe …
SWIFT warns of new attacks, Bangladesh Bank heist linked to Sony hack
SWIFT, the organization that provides banks with a secure network for sending and receiving information about financial transactions, has sent out a warning about a malware …
Adobe patches Flash 0day exploited in attacks
The Adobe Flash Player update announced earlier this week is here, and it fixes more than just the zero-day flaw exploited in attacks in the wild. All in all, the latest …
Pawn Storm APT targets members of Angela Merkel’s party
Pawn Storm, one of the oldest APTs engaging in cyber espionage, has been spotted targeting members of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the political party of …
Milagro: A distributed cryptosystem for the cloud
A new open source project within the Apache Incubator aims to create an alternative to outdated and problematic monolithic trust hierarchies such as commercial certificate …
Do users’ perceptions of password security match reality?
Think your password is secure? You may need to think again. People’s perceptions of password strength may not always match reality, according to a recent study by CyLab, …
Healthcare under attack! 89% of organizations experienced data breaches
It’s a turbulent time for the healthcare industry: patient data is under siege and hospitals are big targets for cyber attacks, according to the Ponemon Institute. Mistakes …
Worldwide server virtualization market is reaching its peak
The worldwide x86 server virtualization market is expected to reach $5.6 billion in 2016, an increase of 5.7 percent from 2015, according to Gartner. Despite the overall …
Mozilla fights in court to get info about potential Firefox flaw
Mozilla has asked a Washington State District Court to compel FBI investigators to provide details about a vulnerability in the Tor Browser with them before they share it with …
Facebook CTF platform is now open source
Capture the Flag competitions are a good – not to mention legal – way for hackers to build and hone their skills. But, quality CTF environments are difficult and …
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