Security News > 2017 > October

Ex-CEO Blames 'Human Error, Tech Failures' for Equifax Breach
2017-10-02 17:33

Richard Smith Offers Explanation in Written Testimony Submitted to Congress"Human error and technology failures" lead to the massive Equifax breach, the company's former CEO, Richard Smith says in...

U.S. Cyber Command Launched DDoS Attack Against North Korea: Report
2017-10-02 17:29

Non-destructive Cyber Attack Could be Considered a Warning to North Korean Regime  read more

Business Risk Intelligence: The New Industry Standard
2017-10-02 15:53

Intelligence in its various forms has long served as the foundation for many organizations’ cybersecurity strategies. And yet, only in recent years has the industry begun to recognize that certain...

Gary McGraw on BSIMM8 and Software Security
2017-10-02 15:00

Software security pioneer Gary McGraw talks to Mike Mimoso about the latest iteration of the Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM) report.

Three in Four DDoS Targets Hit Multiple Times: Imperva
2017-10-02 14:48

Amid an increase in frequency of repeat application layer distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks during the second quarter of the year, over 75% of targets were hit multiple times, according...

Google Finds Flaws in Dnsmasq Network Services Tool
2017-10-02 14:42

Google employees have identified a total of seven vulnerabilities, including ones that allow remote code execution, in the Dnsmasq network services software. read more

The global impact of huge cyber security events
2017-10-02 14:37

The past 12 months have seen a number of unprecedented cyber-attacks in terms of their global scale, impact and rate of spread. Already causing widespread public concern, these attacks only...

Incident Response Insights from US Army Medicine CISO
2017-10-02 14:03

The recent Equifax mega-breach demonstrates how essential it is to have a robust, well-tested incident response plan in place that includes a strong public relations component, says Heath Renfrow,...

Ousted Equifax CEO Faces 3 Congressional Hearings
2017-10-02 14:03

Board of Directors Investigation Reportedly Now Focusing on Chief Legal OfficerFormer Equifax CEO Richard Smith this week heads to Capitol Hill to testify about the massive breach suffered by the...

Protecting networks from DNS exfiltration
2017-10-02 14:00

Everyone around the globe has heard about the colossal Equifax breach last month. Its implications haven’t yet been fully calculated except now that the CEO has resigned from his job, we know it’s...