Security News

DDoS Threat Increases While Mirai Becomes 'Pay-for-Play' (Security Week)
2017-08-22 17:52

The DDoS threat is increasing again. Pbot can generate 75 Gbps from just 400 nodes and Mirai has been commoditized. However, despite the growing number of attacks, the overall trend seems to be...

Sqrrl empowers threat hunters with self-service analytics (Help Net Security)
2017-08-21 12:30

Today, analysts must either have advanced data science skills to build hunting algorithms that detect suspicious cyber behaviors or rely on blackbox vendor tools that package rigid algorithms....

CISO Perspective: Process is Key to Your Threat Intelligence Program (Security Week)
2017-08-18 13:22

Continuing our examination of the cyber threat intelligence mind map, we move from the different levels of threat intel (Strategic, Operational read more

Regulations and Threats: Adapting to the Landscape (InfoRiskToday)
2017-08-17 15:48

From zero-day exploits to IoT vulnerabilities to the sheer number of prospective adversaries, the threat landscape is ever-shifting. And global regulatory pressures are only mounting. How must...

US, China and the UK are top regions affected by IoT security threats (Help Net Security)
2017-08-16 12:55

In the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem today, cyberattacks are becoming more diverse and sophisticated with cybercriminals taking over home network routers to launch attacks on smart home...

Medical devices and the Internet of Things: Defending against cyber threats (Help Net Security)
2017-08-16 12:00

More than one-third (35.6 percent) of surveyed professionals in the Internet of Things-connected medical device ecosystem say their organizations have experienced a cybersecurity incident in the...

AI is key to speeding up threat detection and response (Help Net Security)
2017-08-14 17:15

Time is the most important factor in detecting network breaches and, consequently, in containing cyber incidents and mitigating the cost of a breach. “Security event investigations can last hours,...

STIX and TAXII: Sharing cyber threat intelligence (Help Net Security)
2017-08-14 13:00

In this podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2017, Allan Thomson, CTO at LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, talks about STIX and TAXII. STIX (Structured Threat Information Expression) is a language for...

Intrusion detection is speeding up: Is it enough to tackle global cyber threats? (Help Net Security)
2017-08-03 12:00

As criminals continue to develop new methods to break or sidestep cyber defences, in many cases the focus is shifting towards the ability to detect and respond to an incident as quickly as...

Most damaging threat vector for companies? Malicious insiders (Help Net Security)
2017-08-02 12:30

According to a new SANS survey, 40 percent of respondents rated malicious insiders (insiders who intentionally do harm) as the most damaging threat vector their companies faced. Furthermore,...