Security News

In Australia, Email Compromise Scams Hit Real Estate
2018-06-01 15:33

Property Industry Has Been Caught Off Guard, Expert SaysLate last year in Australia, cybercriminals began targeting a fertile yet relatively poorly protected business sector for so-called business...

CIOs are forced to compromise between faster innovation and perfectly working software
2018-05-29 11:15

An independent global survey of 800 CIOs revealed that 73% of organizations say the need for speed in digital innovation is putting customer experience at risk. The study found that on average,...

VPNFilter malware compromises over 500,000 networking devices around the world
2018-05-24 16:13

Cisco Talos researchers have flagged a huge botnet of small and home office routers and NAS devices, capable of collecting communications and data and launching cyber attacks. About the VPNFilter...

Cyber War and the Compromise of Reliable Full Disclosure
2018-05-14 14:34

We Can’t Rely on Our Own Governments to Practice Responsible Full Disclosure. Full Disclosure is Compromised. read more

Cookie code compromise caper caught and crumbled
2018-05-04 23:37

Ploy to plant malware in NPM's JavaScript registry foiled NPM, the biz responsible for the Node Packet Manager for JavaScript and Node.js, has caught a miscreant trying to tamper with web cookie...

Employees are desensitized to the potential dangers of data compromise
2018-04-17 12:30

Christy Wyatt, CEO of Dtex Systems, shares best practices for getting your team to make cyber-threats a top priority.

The Burden of Business Email Compromise
2018-04-10 20:26

Agari's Dan Hoffmann Outlines the Scale and CostBusiness email compromise attacks that impersonate executives and business partners to trick employees are "the biggest security issue in all of...

Easily exploited flaw in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine allows total system compromise
2018-04-05 18:15

A critical and extremely easily exploitable vulnerability in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine (MMPE) has been patched through an out-of-band security update pushed out by Microsoft on...

Flaws in ManageEngine apps opens enterprise systems to compromise
2018-03-22 14:49

Researchers have discovered multiple severe vulnerabilities in ManageEngine’s line of tools for internal IT support teams, which are used by over half of Fortune 500 companies. About the...

Preventing Business Email Compromise Requires a Human Touch
2018-03-19 12:24

Human-powered Intelligence Plays a Critical Role in Defending Against Socially Engineered Attacks The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) declared Business Email Compromise (BEC) the “3.1...