Bot-driven credential abuse, DDoS attacks continue to rise
Cybersecurity defenders face increasing threats from organisations in the form of bot-based credential abuse targeting the hospitality industry and advanced DDoS attacks, …
Microsoft offers new Azure AD tool to nix easily guessed passwords
Predictable, easy-to-guess passwords are often the weak link that ends up breaking the security chain and attackers know this. “They know to account for character …
Digital transformation: Insight into getting it right
If digital transformation (DX) is using digital technologies to create new business models and change markets, then the journey has only just begun, according to IDC. The …
HMRC collected voiceprints of 5.1 million UK taxpayers
Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has collected voiceprints of some 5.1 million UK taxpayers without their explicit consent, and won’t reveal whether these …
Losses due to BEC scams are escalating
Despite falling down on the list of most often reported Internet-facilitated crimes, Business Email Compromise/Email Account Compromise is still the type of crime that results …
For the love of a good IT book: The No Starch Press story
When No Starch Press founder Bill Pollock decided that his new venture would go for quality instead of quantity, he made the right choice. “We haven’t had a down …
Digital transformation: Visibility compliance in a transitional world
In this podcast, Darron Gibbard, Chief Technical Security Officer EMEA at Qualys, discusses digital transformation challenges, and illustrates what an organization has to do …
Worldwide cloud IT infrastructure revenues continue to grow
Vendor revenue from sales of infrastructure products (server, storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud IT, including public and private cloud, grew 45.5% year over year in the …
Week in review: Threat modeling, blockchain and security, new issue of (IN)SECURE
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Cisco plugs critical flaws in many switches, security appliances Cisco has released …
Office 365 users targeted by phishers employing simple HTML tricks
Phishers are using a simple but effective trick to fool Microsoft’s NLP-based anti-phishing protections and Office 365 users into entering their login credentials into …
New infosec products of the week: June 22, 2018
ExtraHop Reveal(x) sheds light on the darkspace ExtraHop announced Reveal(x) Summer 2018. The latest release includes new capabilities designed to modernize enterprise …
Banking Trojans and cryptojacking on the rise
A new report analyzes threat data collected from approximately 750,000 Morphisec protected endpoints globally, between January 1 and March 31, 2018, as well as from in-depth …
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