Security News > 2020
Nearly one million domains use DMARC, but only 13% of them are configured to actually prevent email spoofing, according to a report published this week by anti-phishing solutions provider Valimail. DMARC is an email authentication, policy, and reporting protocol designed to detect and prevent email spoofing.
T-Mobile US was hacked by miscreants who may have stolen some customer information. The hackers gained access to employee email accounts, which contained customer account information.
It's hard for security to be at the right place at the right time. Traditional detection measures are no match for new cloud environments, iOT and BYO devices, and complex security tools.
Even the most forward-looking organizations with the top security experts face risk when transitioning to the cloud. The case study will also explain how a Network Detection and Response Layer could have provided the missing visibility and detection needed to respond to such an incident.
A report from Atlas VPN finds that one in three Americans worries about identity theft, while only 20% are concerned about becoming a murder victim. Along with being concerned about identity theft, 72% say they are worried about having personal information stolen by hackers.
The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office has fined Cathay Pacific Airways £500,000 over a data breach that exposed the personal information of 9.4 million customers, including 111,000 British citizens, during a four-year period. A Cathay Pacific spokesman tells Information Security Media Group that the airlines cooperated with the ICO during the investigation and that it has taken steps over the last two years to improve its corporate security.
One of the highlights of the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco is the opening keynote session that gathers together a world-class panel of cryptography experts to discuss and debate today's top cybersecurity issues. This year's panelists included the first two letters of the RSA cryptosystem - MIT professor Ronald Rivest and Weizmann Institute professor Adi Shamir; Whitfield Diffie, who helped create the pioneering Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol; Tal Rabin, an expert in cryptography and network security - including digital signatures and secure online communications; and Arvind Narayanan, a Princeton University professor known for his data de-anonymization work.
The UK Information Commissioner's Office announced Wednesday that it has fined Hong Kong based Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd the maximum possible £500,000 following a long-running breach that occurred between October 2014 and May 2018. The current UK Data Protection Act 2018 came into force 12 days after the breach was remedied on May 23, 2018.
Buchman said tech supply chains are particularly vulnerable to air cargo changes and because many airlines have canceled flights around the world, this will create a down-chain gap that will become more apparent as manufacturing speeds up. The supply chain management company Anvyl has employees in China and said that his entire team has been quarantined twice.
Software security company identified 92 billion malicious mails in Q4 and a spike in Emotet and ransomware.