Security News > 2018 > April

Ex-FBI Analyst Turns to Fighting Fraud
2018-04-06 21:43

Citi's Alexis Castellani on New Role in Cyber Fraud PreventionAlexis Castellani spent a decade with the FBI, focused primarily on counter-terrorism. Now she is bringing some of these same skills...

The 4 Pitfalls of Privileged Access Management
2018-04-06 21:43

Bomgar's Sam Elliott on Overlooked Areas of SecurityOverlooked areas of security and defense include four pitfalls of privileged access management, says Sam Elliott of Bomgar, who offers insights...

Mitigating Risks From Open Source and Third-Party Code
2018-04-06 21:43

CA Veracode's Chris Eng on New Strategies to Bolster Application SecurityOrganizations are developing new apps at the speed of business. But through the use of vulnerable code, they also are...

Friday Squid Blogging: Sake Decanters Made of Dried Squid
2018-04-06 20:59

This is interesting. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....

Mirai Variant Targets Financial Sector With IoT DDoS Attacks
2018-04-06 19:24

Researchers said a Mirai botnet variant, possibly linked to the IoTroop or Reaper botnet, was leveraged in attacks against the financial sector.

Malicious actors used Facebook’s own tools to scrape most users’ public info
2018-04-06 18:24

Facebook has disabled a search tool that allowed anyone to enter a person’s phone number or email address into Facebook and find their account, along with all the information that user did not...

2020 Vision: How to Prepare for the Future of Information Security Threats
2018-04-06 17:25

A highlight of the top nine threats to information security over the next two years.

Privacy Advocates Blast Facebook After Data Scraping Scandal
2018-04-06 16:07

Privacy advocates are up in arms after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said most of the two billion users of the social network may have had their data scraped by malicious actors using a reverse search tool.

Security teams are under resourced, overwhelmed by attackers
2018-04-06 15:47

A new report conducted by the Ponemon Institute uncovered security’s “patching paradox” – hiring more people does not equal better security. While security teams plan to hire more staffing...

Facebook's Sandberg Says Other Cases of Data Misuse Possible
2018-04-06 15:28

Facebook was aware more than two years ago of Cambridge Analytica's harvesting of the personal profiles of up to 87 million users and cannot rule out other cases of abuse of user data, chief...