Security News

Podcast: The Growing Social Media Threat Landscape
2018-06-14 10:11

How can we keep up with the social media threat landscape as it grows to include more malware, hacks and scams? We discuss on the latest Threatpost podcast.

MP gets 600 rape threats in a night, wants an end to online anonymity
2018-06-13 13:06

As a female MP Jess Phillips faces threats of violence and aggression every day.

Protecting consumers from mobile and IoT threats
2018-06-12 11:30

A new report by Allot Communications revealed a dynamic and automated threat landscape in which consumers lack the security expertise to effectively protect themselves. Mobile and Internet of...

Security Vulnerabilities: A Threat to Automotive Innovation
2018-06-12 09:55

The pace of innovation within the automotive industry has been breath-taking. Only ten years ago, the very concept of self-driving cars and heavy goods vehicles was still regarded as far-fetched...

A New Paradigm For Cyber Threat Hunting
2018-06-11 14:18

It’s no secret that expecting security controls to block every infection vector is unrealistic. For most organizations, the chances are very high that threats have already penetrated their...

How Carbonite secures cloud data as cyber threats get more sophisticated
2018-06-06 21:02

Norman Guadagno, SVP of marketing at Carbonite, explained how his company guards business and personal data against increasingly complex security risks.

WARDroid Uncovers Mobile Threats to Millions of Users Worldwide
2018-06-05 20:38

An analysis of 10,000 mobile apps has found that a significant portion of them are open to web API hijacking – thanks to inconsistencies between app and server logic in web APIs.

Leveraging Machine Learning to Battle Emerging Threats
2018-06-05 13:18

Machine learning is supporting new ways of battling evolving cyber threats, such as by analyzing behaviors, says Darshan Appayanna, CISO at Happiest Minds, an IT services firm, who will be a...

OMG, that's downright Wicked: Botnet authors twist corpse of Mirai into new threats
2018-06-01 16:04

Infamous IoT menace lives on in its hellspawn Cybercrooks are using the infamous Mirai IoT botnet as a framework to quickly add in new exploits and functionalities, it has emerged.…

Banking trojans, not ransomware, are the biggest threat to the enterprise now
2018-06-01 15:01

The first months of 2018 saw more cyberattacks using Trojans and social engineering, according to Proofpoint. Here's how to protect your organization.