Security News

Organizations Only Slightly Improved Security Posture: Report (Security Week)
2017-07-12 16:08

Organizations made some improvements to their security posture last year, but only marginally, as the average time-to-fix is still too high and remediation rates are too low, according to the 12th...

Alarming Percentage of Employees Hide Security Incidents: Report (Security Week)
2017-07-10 16:56

Policy and Engagement Are Key to Addressing Insider Threats read more

CIA Knew in August that Putin Sought to Boost Trump: Report (Security Week)
2017-06-24 01:50

The CIA had top-level intelligence last August that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally ordered an operation to help Donald Trump win the US presidential race, the Washington Post reported...

Time to Detect Compromise Improves, While Detection to Containment Worsens: Report (Security Week)
2017-06-21 02:31

Cost of Malvertising is Minimal; Price of Zero-days is Rising, Researchers Say read more

Report: Election Systems' Hacks Far Greater Than First Realized (InfoRiskToday)
2017-06-13 22:47

Potential Loss of Confidence in Election Process FearedRussian hackers struck election systems in almost twice as many states as previously reported, according to a news report. The breaches could...

Assess, report and remediate security-related configuration issues (Help Net Security)
2017-06-13 12:30

Qualys announced Security Configuration Assessment (SCA), a new add-on for Vulnerability Management (VM) that provides customers cloud-based tools to automate configuration assessment of global IT...

Israeli Intelligence Discovered IS Plans for Laptop Ban: Report (Security Week)
2017-06-12 17:57

Israeli government spies hacked into the operations of Islamic State bombmakers to discover they were developing a laptop computer bomb to blow up a commercial aircraft, the New York Times...

Healthcare Industry Cybersecurity Report (Schneier on Security)
2017-06-12 14:06

New US government report: "Report on Improving Cybersecurity in the Health Care Industry." It's pretty scathing, but nothing in it will surprise regular readers of this blog. It's worth reading...

Report: HHS Needs Bolder Steps to Prevent EHR-Related Fraud (InfoRiskToday)
2017-06-08 21:18

Watchdog Agency Offers Wide-Ranging Assessment of HHS Security EffortsThe Department of Health and Human Services still needs to take bolder steps to make sure electronic health records are not...