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Focusing on Endpoints: 5 Steps to Fight Cybercrime
Follow these best practices to strengthen endpoint management strategies and protect company data.
The Ransomware Dilemma: What if Your Local Government Is Next?
Baltimore has so far refused to comply with a ransom demand. It's being forced to make a decision all such victims face: to act morally or practically.
Don't Just Tune Your SIEM, Retune It
Your SIEM isn't a set-it-and-forget-it proposition. It's time for a spring cleaning.
FirstAm Leak Highlights Importance of Verifying the Basics
The Fortune 500 giant in the real estate industry missed a basic vulnerability in its website, leaving as many as 885 million sensitive records accessible to attackers. The fix: teaching developers the top 10 security issues and frequent testing.
Cybercrime: Looking Beyond the Dark Web
Fighting cybercrime requires visibility into much more than just the Dark Web. Here's where to look and a glimpse of what you'll find.
Satan Ransomware Adds More Evil Tricks
The latest changes to the Satan ransomware framework demonstrate attackers are changing their operations while targeting victims more carefully.
Old Threats Are New Again
They may look familiar to you, and that isn't a coincidence. New threats are often just small twists on old ones.
Financial Sector Under Siege
The old take-the-money-and-run approach has been replaced by siege tactics such as DDOS attacks and land-and-expand campaigns with multiple points of persistence and increased dwell time.
A Trustworthy Digital Foundation Is Essential to Digital Government
Agencies must take steps to ensure that citizens trust in the security of government's digital channels.
Commercial Spyware Uses WhatsApp Flaw to Infect Phones
A single flaw allowed attackers — thought to be linked to a government — to target human rights workers and install surveillance software by sending a phone request. The victims did not even have to answer.
How We Collectively Can Improve Cyber Resilience
Three steps you can take, based on Department of Homeland Security priorities.
How to Close the Critical Cybersecurity Talent Gap
If we don't change our ways, the gap will keep getting worse. Outside-the-box thinking and new techniques are required, and here are a few ways to get started.
Fighting Back Against Tech-Savvy Fraudsters
Staying a step ahead requires moving beyond the security techniques of the past.
The Big E-Crime Pivot
Criminals have begun to recognize that enterprise ransomware offers tremendous financial advantage over the more traditional tactics of wire fraud and account takeover.
Better Behavior, Better Biometrics?
Behavioral biometrics is a building block to be used in conjunction with other security measures, but it shows promise.
Attackers Add a New Spin to Old Scams
Scammers are figuring out unique ways of abusing cloud services to make their attacks look more genuine, Netskope says.
Password Reuse, Misconfiguration Blamed for Repository Compromises
Armed with stolen credentials from another breach or from a misconfigured file, attackers delete developers' repositories on GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab, leaving behind ransom notes.
Trust the Stack, Not the People
A completely trusted stack lets the enterprise be confident that apps and data are treated and protected wherever they are.
Security Depends on Careful Design
Deploying focused edge protection on-site extends security beyond the network level to shield millions of previously exposed devices, apps, and control systems.
Why Are We Still Celebrating World Password Day?
Calls to eliminate the password abound on this World Password Day – and the technology to change is ready. So why can't we get off our password habit?
Attackers Used Red-Team, Pen-Testing Tools to Hack Wipro
Breach of India-based outsourcing giant involved a remote access tool and a post-exploitation tool, according to an analysis by Flashpoint.
Digital Transformation Exposes Operational Technology & Critical Infrastructure
The convergence of OT and IP-based IT networks makes society more vulnerable, requiring CISOs to rethink defense.
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Everything You Need to Know About DNS AttacksIt's important to understand DNS, potential attacks against it, and the tools and techniques required to defend DNS infrastructure. This report answers all the questions you were afraid to ask.
Domain Name Service (DNS) is a critical part of any organization's digital infrastructure, but it's also one of the least understood. DNS is designed to be invisible to business professionals, IT stakeholders, and many security professionals, but DNS's threat surface is large and widely targeted.
Attackers are causing a great deal of damage with an array of attacks such as denial of service, DNS cache poisoning, DNS hijackin, DNS tunneling, and DNS dangling. They are using DNS infrastructure to take control of inbound and outbound communications and preventing users from accessing the applications they are looking for. To stop attacks on DNS, security teams need to shore up the organization's security hygiene around DNS infrastructure, implement controls such as DNSSEC, and monitor DNS traffic
Incident Readiness and Building Response Playbook
In this special report, learn the Xs and Os of any good security incident readiness and response playbook.
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