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Cybercrime-as-a-Service Offered To Militants, Terrorists, Says Europol
The Darknet could provide ample resources and services for terrorists to carry out attacks, claims report.
Russian Hackers Target Citizen Journalists Reporting On Malaysian Airlines Crash
Bellingcat’s reporters have been hit with spear phishing attacks and account takeover attempts for over a year, ThreatConnect says.
Top Democrats Tell Putin To Halt Hacking Of US Political Parties
Russia trying to influence November presidential elections, say Senator Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Adam Schiff.
Biometric Skimmers Pose Emerging Threat To ATMs
Even as financial institutions move to shore up ATM security with biometric mechanisms, cybercrooks are busy figuring out ways to beat them.
Majority Of Major Corporations Have User Credentials Stolen And Exposed
Companies in the entertainment and technology sectors are far more exposed than others, Digital Shadows analysis shows.
Zscaler Warns Of New iSpy Commercial Keylogger
Malware steals user data, license keys to popular applications.
What’s The Risk? 3 Things To Know About Chatbots & Cybersecurity
Interactive message bots are useful and becoming more popular, but they raise serious security issues.
Republican Lawmaker Withdraws Hack Allegations Saying He Misspoke
Michael McCaul had earlier alleged that like DNC, the Republican National Committee computers were also breached by Russian hackers.
Microsoft Patches Zero Day Flaw Used In Two Massive Malvertising Campaigns
Bug gave attackers a way to identify and avoid systems belonging to security researchers and vendors, Proofpoint says.
France's Online Criminal Underground Built On Foundation Of Distrust
French criminals seeking black market goods and services -- cyber and otherwise -- have to look in darker shadows and work harder to prove their felonious credibility.
Cybersecurity In The Obama Era
Our roundup of the Obama administration’s major initiatives, executive orders and actions over the past seven and a half years. How would you grade the president's cybersecurity achievements?
Israeli Teenagers Held For Allegedly Running Hacking Service
The two 18-year-olds were responsible for more than 150,000 DDoS attacks which earned them around $600,000 in two years, say reports.
PCI Security Update Targets PIN System Vendors
New requirements cover physical and logical security controls.
Obama Calls For Norms To Prevent 'Cyber Wild Wild West'
At G-20 summit, US President warns of a free-for-all if urgent measures are not taken by countries with cyber weapons capabilities.
The Shifting Mindset Of Financial Services CSOs
They’re getting more realistic and developing strategies to close security gaps.
Network Management Systems Vulnerable To SNMP Attacks
Products from many vendors vulnerable to XSS attacks because of basic input validation errors, Rapid7 says in report.
Cryptographic Key Reuse Remains Widespread In Embedded Products
Nine months after SEC Consult warned about the reuse of private keys and certificates in routers, modems, other products, problem has grown worse.
Apple Issues Patches To Fix ‘Trident’ Flaws In OS X El Capitan, Yosemite
Same zero-day flaws had been patched earlier in iOS as well
Air-Gapped Systems Foiled Again, Via USB Drive
Researchers at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University have come up with another novel way to extract data from air-gapped systems, at least theoretically.
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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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