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Recent Ransomware Incidents Serve Up Lessons
2018-04-27 12:03

Experts Say Breaches Spotlight Business Associate RisksTwo recent security incidents involving ransomware attacks on vendors serve as the latest reminders of the risks business associates pose to...

Only half of CI/CD workflows include appsec testing elements
2018-04-27 12:00

Only half of CI/CD workflows include application security testing elements despite respondents citing awareness of the importance and advantages of doing so, according to a new 451 Research...

Adoption of security ratings platforms is on the rise
2018-04-27 11:45

Forrester Consulting surveyed 158 security leaders to evaluate how enterprises are assessing and managing security threats to their IT infrastructure, as well as to their third-parties. The survey...

Infamous revenge porn site Anon-IB seized by police
2018-04-27 11:36

The internet just got a little bit better

Small merchants are not effectively engaging with PCI programs
2018-04-27 11:30

Smaller merchants are systematically failing to engage with PCI compliance programs, according to a new acquirer survey from Sysnet Global Solutions. The survey revealed that all acquirers believe...

TSB Bank Disaster
2018-04-27 11:00

This seems like an absolute disaster: The very short version is that a UK bank, TSB, which had been merged into and then many years later was spun out of Lloyds Bank, was bought by the Spanish...

3 ways to minimize cyberattack threats by reducing attack surfaces
2018-04-27 10:11

Cybercriminals leverage attack surfaces as a way to penetrate an organization's infrastructure. Learn how to reduce attack surfaces and apply deceptive cyberdefenses.

Mozilla Adding New CSRF Protection to Firefox
2018-04-27 08:27

Mozilla announced this week that the upcoming Firefox 60 will introduce support for the same-site cookie attribute in an effort to protect users against cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. read more

Apple’s latest updates are out – APFS password leakage bug squashed
2018-04-27 00:41

Two critical browser patches for iPhones and Macs - plus a quiet patch for a Mac password disclosure glitch we wrote about recently.

Western Digital Cloud Storage Device Exposes Files to All LAN Users
2018-04-26 22:54

The default configuration on the new Western Digital My Cloud EX2 storage device allows any users on the network to retrieve files via HTTP requests, Trustwave has discovered. read more