Brokerage account takeover, supply chain attacks, destructive attacks and those that seek to manipulate time or time stamps are among the latest threats uncovered in the new Modern Bank Heists report authored by Tom Kellermann at VMware Carbon Black.
Criminals love to amass and sell vast quantities of user data, but not all data leaks necessarily pose a risk to users. Even so, the ease with which would-be attackers can amass user data is a reminder to organizations to lock down inappropriate access as much as possible.
A Texas man is facing a federal charge after he allegedly tried to buy explosives from an undercover FBI agent to bomb an AWS data center in Virginia, according to the Justice Department. The suspect believed the bombing could interrupt 70% of internet traffic, prosecutors say.
Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced it will acquire cloud-based speech technology and artificial intelligence vendor Nuance Communications in an all-cash transaction valued at $19.7 billion. The deal is expected to close by the end of this year.
The increasing reliance on collaboration tools such as Slack and Discord to support those working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic has opened up new ways for fraudsters and cybercriminals to bypass security tools and deliver malware, Cisco Talos reports.
The Lazarus Group, a North Korean-linked APT group, has recently deployed a previously undocumented backdoor called "Vyveva" to target a freight logistics company in South Africa, according to ESET.
The new world of "work from anywhere" is all about connecting users to applications. “It’s just different,” says iBoss CEO Paul Martini. Yet, many enterprises still approach this new dynamic with the wrong security mindset. Martini outlines what they’re missing.
Due to the impact of COVID-19, 2020 will be widely regarded as the year that work moved home. In reality, it was the year work moved to the cloud and everywhere in between. As a result, endpoint management and endpoint security are now the cornerstones of effective protection and the foundation for the next generation...
Researchers have uncovered nine critical vulnerabilities in Rockwell Automation's FactoryTalk AssetCentre product, which, if exploited, potentially could enable attackers to control an OT network. An updated version of the product mitigates the flaws.
Attackers are targeting unpatched SAP applications, and the exploits could lead to the hijacking of the vulnerable systems, data theft and ransomware attacks, SAP and Onapsis Research Labs report. They note that patches for most of the flaws have been available for several years.
Today's cryptocurrencies are based on cryptographic standards that eventually could be broken via quantum computing, says Gideon Samid of BitMint, which has developed a virtual currency based instead on the concept of "quantum randomness."
Up to 90% of software security problems are caused by coding errors, which is why secure coding
standards are essential. There are several secure coding practices you can adopt. But, to write truly
secure code, you need a secure coding standard.
Here, we explain what are secure coding standards and how to...
To deliver a secure infrastructure-as-code service, development teams must adopt a shift left strategy to bring all the applications and security under one umbrella to provide faster and continuous delivery of the fully automated code, according to Ori Bendet and Igor Markov of Checkmarx.
The complexity of Supply Chain Security makes it very challenging to Cyber Security Teams in the Middle East – and beyond – to deal with threats and attacks on their company/organization’s supply chain.
In this session we are revisiting the “Assume Breach” Principle and encourage Cyber Security...
The complexity of Supply Chain Security makes it very challenging to Cyber Security Teams in Africa – and beyond – to deal with threats and attacks on their company/organization’s supply chain.
In this session we are revisiting the “Assume Breach” Principle and encourage Cyber Security Professionals to...
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