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How organizations are confronting escalating third-party cyber risk
2018-02-22 14:00

Based on in-depth interviews with security executives from 30 participating organizations across multiple industries, RiskRecon revealed how companies are managing the security risks of their...

Mitigating the Insider Threat: Lessons From PNB Fraud Case
2018-02-22 13:47

After PNB Incident, Security Practitioners Discuss Technologies to Mitigate RisksNow that it's been confirmed that an insider at Punjab National Bank paved the way for $1.8 billion in fraudulent...

Several Vulnerabilities Patched in Drupal
2018-02-22 13:27

Updates released on Wednesday for Drupal 7 and 8 patch several vulnerabilities, including issues rated “critical.” No bug fixes are included in the latest releases. One of the critical security...

BEC scammers actively targeting Fortune 500 companies
2018-02-22 13:00

Nigerian scammers are targeting Fortune 500 companies, and have already stolen millions of dollars from some of them, IBM Security researchers have found. Their strategy is well known: they take...

Harassment By Package Delivery
2018-02-22 12:04

People harassing women by delivering anonymous packages purchased from Amazon. On the one hand, there is nothing new here. This could have happened decades ago, pre-Internet. But the Internet...

Structure of Cyber Risk Perception Survey Could Distort Findings
2018-02-22 11:54

CISOs Barely Mentioned in Report on Global Cyber Risk Perception read more

Singapore Invites Cyberattacks to Strengthen Defenses
2018-02-22 11:15

Hundreds of hackers have targeted Singapore's defence ministry –- but the attacks were at the government's invitation in an unusual attempt to strengthen cybersecurity. read more

Cryptocurrency Fraud: In the Midst of a Gold Rush, Beware of Scammers
2018-02-22 11:05

Bitcoin is the pioneer and obvious leader in the cryptocurrency market. But in 2017 alternative coins, or “altcoins,” began to transform the market. Nearly 1,500 cryptocurrencies are currently in...

SEC Tells Execs Not to Trade While Investigating Security Incidents
2018-02-22 09:39

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday announced updated guidance on how public companies should handle the investigation and disclosure of data breaches and other...

uTorrent Users Warned of Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
2018-02-21 21:26

Google Project Zero researchers are warning of two critical remote code vulnerabilities in popular versions of uTorrent's web-based BitTorrent client and its uTorrent Classic desktop client.