Facebook has fixed a security vulnerability in its digital marketplace that could have been abused to identify the precise location of a seller, and by extension, their goods. Police warn that thieves regularly trawl location data to find the owners and locations of high-value items.
Is "observability" just a disingenuous rebrand of '"monitoring"? Is it monitoring on steroids? Or, is it the new way to find out "why" (and not just "if") your system, IT or application isn't working as expected?
The world of work is mobile and distributed, particularly for large organizations and global brands. These organizations in finance, consulting, technology, government, and more tend to have many branch offices and traveling workers handling their clients' sensitive information. It's challenging to scale secure...
The skyrocketing adoption of Microsoft Office 365 has made it a valuable target for cybercriminals. While Microsoft's security tools and capabilities are a great start, many enterprises moving to Office 365 are finding that they need greater protection across all their cloud applications. The Palo Alto Networks...
Blocking DNS-based threats is a major challenge. DNS is everywhere and critical to running your business. It also represents a pervasive but easily overlooked attack surface, and bad actors are using this to their advantage.
Our Unit 42 threat research team reports that more than 80 percent of malware uses DNS to...
The current landscape of networking and security overlay products are creating administrative problems with cost and complexity, and falling short on the protections that organizations need. Learn about how Palo Alto Networks is changing the game with GlobalProtect Cloud Service and Aperture.
"Move fast and break things," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg once said of his company's internal motto. But regulators have been increasingly signaling to Facebook that when it comes to users' privacy and data security, too much remains broken.
Robert Mueller's report into Russian interference clearly states: "The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion." In the wake of the Trump administration lifting some Russian sanctions, one expert says it must take the opposite tack.
Two security issues disclosed by Facebook over the past month are worse than first thought, adding to a harrowing series of data-handling mishaps by the social network. Millions of Instagram users had their plain-text passwords stored, and 1.5 million people had their email contact lists uploaded without consent.
A set of malicious tools, along with a list of potential targets and victims, belonging to an APT group dubbed OilRig has leaked online, exposing some of the organization's methods and goals, analysts say.
A warning that a smartwatch marketed to parents for tracking and communicating with their children could be coopted by hackers leads the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. It also reviews how a DNS hijacking campaign is hitting organizations and how "dark patterns" trick users.
Mitigating medical device cybersecurity risks can be a matter of life and death, warns federal adviser and security expert Anura Fernando, who says ensuring that medical device network connections are properly managed, monitored and secured is "much like keeping a weapon in a safe with the safety on."
Among the top new spear phishing threats to enterprises: Extortion. Asaf Cidon of Barracuda outlines the top three spear phishing threats and new strategies to defend against them.
Data in non-production environments occupy a significant percentage of total enterprise data volume--often as much as 80%. Non-production environments also carry more risk than production because there are more direct users. Data security regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, NY DFS etc., do not distinguish between...
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