Security News > 2021
The introduction of passwordless authentication throws out any reliance on passwords and delivers a better user experience, less headaches for the IT guys and better levels of security. A passwordless solution places less burden on IT. In a passwordless environment, no password storage or management is needed.
One of the biggest consequences of the rapidly evolving cybersecurity threat landscape is that defenses must constantly build bigger systems to defend themselves. The constant arms race means that companies often get bigger, more powerful tools that can't handle the nuanced threats they face.
Netscout announced findings from its bi-annual Threat Intelligence Report, punctuated by a record-setting 10,089,687 DDoS attacks observed during 2020. Attackers paid particular attention to vital pandemic industries such as e-commerce, streaming services, online learning, and healthcare generating a 20% year-over-year increase in attack frequency over 2019 plus a 22% increase in the last six months of 2020.
While last year's report noted a drop in internal detections of intrusions compared to the previous year, experts observed a return of organizations independently detecting most of their own incidents. Organizations located in the Americas led the internal detection trendline at 61%, followed by EMEA and APAC closely aligned at 53% and 52%, respectively.
FBI agents executed a court-authorized cyber operation to delete malicious web shells from hundreds of previously hacked Microsoft Exchange servers in the United States, unbeknownst to their owners, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday. After a wave of major in-the-wild zero-day attacks against Exchange Server installations that occurred globally in January, savvy organizations scrambled to lock down vulnerable Microsoft email servers and remove web shells that were installed by attackers.
NortonLifeLock revealed that in the past year nearly 330 million people across 10 countries were victims of cybercrime and more than 55 million people were victims of identity theft. The report, conducted online by The Harris Poll among over 10,000 adults in 10 countries including 1,000 in the United States, also found 25% of Americans detected unauthorized access to an account or device in the past 12 months.
Popular TCP/IP stacks are affected by a series of Domain Name System vulnerabilities that could be exploited to take control of impacted devices, researchers with IoT security firm Forescout reveal. Collectively called NAME:WRECK and identified in the DNS implementations of FreeBSD, Nucleus NET, IPnet, and NetX, the flaws could also be abused to perform denial of service attacks, to execute code remotely, or take devices offline.
A majority of risk managers are optimistic about the profession's outlook, with COVID-19 and economic uncertainty amplifying the need for strong organizational risk management, a report from the Global Association of Risk Professionals reveals. Sixty-nine percent of all survey respondents - comprised of 2,100 GARP Members across 101 countries - said they expect their risk career opportunities to increase over the next 18 months, while nearly one-third said they anticipate a significant increase in opportunities.
The data center market in Europe is expected to grow at a CAGR of over 4% during the period 2021-2026, according to ResearchAndMarkets. Data center operators have adopted innovative and energy-efficient cooling infrastructure solutions, aiming to reduce power consumption by up to 50%. This is expected to grow during the forecast period as market vendors are introducing innovative high-efficient cooling systems.
Flashpoint announced two new product offerings in the past two weeks: Flashpoint Brand Protection and Flashpoint Card Fraud Mitigation. These two new products from Flashpoint further extend the capabilities that enterprises and government agencies have at their disposal to mitigate fraud and protect against physical and cyber threats anywhere online.