Security News

Cado Response platform offers enhanced visibility and context across data breaches
2021-08-04 01:30

Cado Security announced the addition of memory acquisition, processing and analysis capabilities to its Cado Response platform. With Memory Forensics, security teams gain enhanced visibility and context to identify the root cause of incidents and respond to data breaches faster.

AppOmni’s platform protects companies against cloud and SaaS breaches
2021-08-02 02:30

Today, most companies rely on manual processes and good intentions to ensure proper SaaS security management, but that is not enough. The AppOmni SaaS Security Management platform, which offers a full suite of SaaS security posture, protection, and monitoring capabilities, covers the most widely adopted and business-critical SaaS applications on the market including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, GitHub, Workday, Box, Slack, and Zoom.

Security breaches where working from home is involved are costlier, claims IBM report
2021-07-28 19:47

Firms looking to save money by shifting to more flexible ways of working will need to think carefully about IT security and the additional cost of breaches linked to staff working from home. That's according to the latest annual "Cost of a Data Breach Report" conducted by Ponemon Institute along with IBM Security, which found that the average total cost of a remote-working data breach was more than $1m higher than cyberattacks where remote working wasn't a factor.

Trending cybercrimes and the big impact of lesser-known breaches
2021-07-28 04:30

Sontiq released the Mid-Year 2021 Cybercrime Report, which highlights five key trends and the 2021 data breaches that pose the highest level of risk to victims. The report's insights were derived from data generated by Sontiq's call center, Identity Restoration Team, and through BreachIQ data breach analysis.

Tech biz must tell us about more security breaches, says UK.gov as it ponders lowering report thresholds
2021-07-27 18:15

The British government wants to make Amazon, Google, and other digital service providers report cybersecurity breaches to the Information Commissioner, according to newly published plans. Due to Brexit, the government can amend the UK's Network and Information Security Regulations to let the Information Commissioner's Office, the local data watchdog, dictate what kind of cybersecurity breaches must be reported to it.

SAFE Security raises $33M to help organizations improve risk analysis and prevent data breaches
2021-07-22 23:00

This funding will fuel SAFE Security's expansion into the U.S. market as the Company pioneers a new category - Cybersecurity and Digital Business Risk Quantification to help organizations improve risk analysis and prevent data breaches. The SAFE Security platform helps quantify this risk assessment across people, processes and technology with a 'SAFE score' to help leaders make informed decisions about cyber investments and priorities.

Microsoft finds Netgear router bugs enabling corporate breaches
2021-06-30 18:14

Attackers could use critical firmware vulnerabilities discovered by Microsoft in some NETGEAR router models as a stepping stone to move laterally within enterprise networks. They allow unauthenticated attackers to access unpatched routers' management pages via authentication bypass, gain access to secrets stored on the device, and derive saved router credentials using a cryptographic side-channel attack.

S3 Ep36: Trickbot coder busted, passwords cracked, and breaches judged [Podcast]
2021-06-10 19:59

Alleged malware coder from the Trickbot gang arrested. 5500 passwords cracked and salaries stolen by "Credential stuffing" crook.

Billions of passwords leaked online from past data breaches
2021-06-09 14:09

A list of leaked passwords discovered on a hacker forum may be one of the largest such collections of all time. A 100GB text file leaked by a user on a popular hacker forum contains 8.4 billion passwords, likely gathered from past data breaches, tech news site CyberNews said on Monday.

Most mobile finance apps vulnerable to data breaches
2021-06-09 03:30

77% of financial apps have at least one serious vulnerability that could lead to a data breach, an Intertrust report reveals. This report comes at a time where finance mobile app usage has rapidly accelerated, with the number of user sessions in finance apps increasing by up to 49% over the first half of 2020.