Security News

Main sources of data breaches: Phishing, RAM scrapers, web app insecurity (Help Net Security)
2015-04-14 10:26

US telecom giant Verizon has published its 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report, which is based on an analysis of nearly 80,000 security incidents, including more than 2,100 confirmed data breaches,...

Attackers use deceptive tactics to dominate corporate networks (Help Net Security)
2015-04-14 07:05

Cyber attackers are infiltrating networks and evading detection by hijacking the infrastructure of major corporations and using it against them, according to Symantec. “Attackers don’t need to br...

The key challenges to timely incident response (Help Net Security)
2015-04-14 07:04

Security professionals are inundated with security incidents, averaging 78 investigations per organization in the last year, with 28 percent of those incidents involving targeted attacks – one of the ...

A look at emergent threats and their influence (Help Net Security)
2015-04-14 07:03

Analyzing Dell data sources and the 2014 threat landscape, their new report found a surge in point-of-sale (POS) malware, increased malware traffic within encrypted (https) web protocols, as well as t...

Cloud security: CA conducts advanced research (Help Net Security)
2015-04-14 07:02

CA Labs is conducting research and development for innovative solutions to address security challenges in multi-cloud environments. Horizon 2020 awarded a contract to the consortium to conduct the res...

CoinVault ransomware: Retrieve data without paying the criminals (Help Net Security)
2015-04-14 05:25

Victims of the CoinVault ransomware have a chance to retrieve their data without having to pay the criminals, thanks to a repository of decryption keys and a decryption application made available onli...