Cyber attacks happen — that’s a static fact of today’s cyber-fueled world. What isn’t static is how and where these attacks happen. Opportunities for attackers abound as networks grow more complex and orgs migrate (or come to life) in the cloud. Today’s attackers can spend months hiding in an environment,...
Don't click phishy links. Everyone knows that. But are your end users prepared to quickly identify today's tricky tactics being used by bad actors? Probably not. Cybercriminals have moved beyond simple bait and switch domains. They're now employing a variety of advanced social engineering techniques to entice your...
CISA Director Jen Easterly and congressional leader John Katko, R-N.Y., agree that officials must take precautionary steps to identify "systemically important critical infrastructure" to reduce risks of pervasive supply chain cyberattacks.
It takes years to build a brand. A cyberattack that exposes customer data or even simply
paints the company in a negative light can cause catastrophic loss of trust in an instant.
Fortunately, all is not yet lost. Cybersecurity companies are continuing to fend off cybercriminals and consumers are
slowly but...
In a growing trend known as credential phishing, threat actors impersonate legitimate brands and services by crafting similar-looking websites where unsuspecting users enter their account information.
To uncover the mechanics, the Agari Cyber Intelligence Division seeded more than 8,000 phishing sites with fake...
How many ways do U.S. businesses need to be told to lock down their systems to safeguard themselves from ransomware? That's the focus of a new, joint cybersecurity advisory from the U.S. government pertaining to BlackMatter, following an advisory issued last month about Conti.
In an effort to bolster endpoint protection within the U.S. government, the White House is ordering federal agencies to allow CISA to access existing deployments. It is also setting timelines for improving the protection of workstations, mobile phones and servers.
Criminal hackers don't break for lunches, weekends or holidays. Of course, that's just one of many challenges facing information security teams, as they attempt to maximize visibility and minimize complexity while protecting their business around the clock, says Peter Van Lierde, the CISO of energy firm Sibelga.
Some 14,000 Google users were warned of being suspected targets of Russian government-backed threat actors on Thursday. The next day, the tech giant announced cybersecurity updates - particularly for email accounts of high-profile users, including politicians and journalists.
Team Cymru commissioned Forrester Consulting to quantify the positive financial impact of external threat hunting using Team Cymru’s Pure Signal™ Recon solution. Supply chain risk is top of mind for most organizations. The company in this study applied external threat hunting to this challenge and is now able to...
Team Cymru commissioned Forrester Consulting to quantify the positive financial impact of external threat hunting using Team Cymru’s Pure Signal™ Recon solution. Supply chain risk is top of mind for most organizations. The company in this study applied external threat hunting to this challenge and is now able to...
The cybersecurity firm IronNet, founded and led by retired Army Gen. Keith Alexander, has gone public without an IPO by merging with LGL Systems Acquisitions Corp., a "blank check" shell company formed to handle such mergers. Meanwhile, Checkpoint has announced plans to acquire the email security firm Avanan.
A vulnerability in Microsoft Azure's database service Cosmos DB has potentially put at risk thousands of Azure customers, including many Fortune 500 companies, according to the security firm Wiz. Microsoft has mitigated the flaw.
In the latest weekly update, four editors at Information Security Media Group discuss timely cybersecurity issues, including cryptocurrency exchange hacks and the cyber implications of the U.S. withdrawal from Kabul.
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