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If CISOs don’t do a good job of communicating, 59 percent of board members said that the security executives stand to lose their jobs, according to a new survey released today.”If they’re not up to par in the minds of the board, there will be action…

A majority of companies don’t have the technology in place to keep employees from sharing confidential documents, according to a study released today.
In particular, only 36 percent of over 600 IT practitioners at large companies said that their co…

Globally, 47 percent of consumers would switch their mobile phone carrier in the event of a security breach, up 7 percent from last year, but only 29 percent of Americans would do the same, according to a new Nokia survey of more than 20,000 custome…

Shaming carriers and smartphone manufacturers into applying patches faster is a step forward, but a lot more needs to be done to improve security of the Android platform, security experts say.
Last month, Bloomberg, citing unnamed sources, is consi…

Surescripts is not a data science company. But as the largest health information network in the country, they’ve gotten good at handling Big Data.
And their Big Data is pretty big — the system tracks 270 million patients covering 71 percent of the…

As of the end of March, 93 percent of all phishing emails contained encryption ransomware, according to a report released today by PhishMe.
That was up from 56 percent in December, and less than 10 percent every other month of last year.
And the nu…

A recent test of pre-installed updater software on 10 laptops showed that every single one had security problems.”We went and bought about 10 laptops,” said Darren Kemp, security researcher at Duo Security. “And every single vendor had their own pie…

In theory, nobody should be paying any money to the ransomware extortionists. Doesn’t everyone have backups these days? Even consumer has access to a wide variety of free or low-cost backup services.But the headlines are full of reports about instit…

Crooks stole $12.7 million at 1,400 Japanese ATMs earlier this month, with around 100 people making 14,000 transactions with 1,600 counterfeit credit cards based on stolen information from real cards issued by a South African bank.
The theft could …

Last week, the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission called cybersecurity the biggest risk facing the global financial industry.
“Cyber risks can produce far-reaching impacts,” said SEC chair Mary Jo White.
For example, cybercriminals rec…

Most enterprise users with Android phones are still vulnerable to an exploit that allows attackers to get into their phone’s Qualcomm Secure Executive Environment and completely take over the phone, up to and including modifying the phone’s operatin…

Cybercrime may be booming but its business model is vulnerable on many fronts, according to a new report.”We’ve been observing that they’ve been acting like a business for a while,” said Shogo Cottrell, security strategist at Hewlett Packard Enterpr…

Although cybercriminals have been turning out specialized hacking and attack tools at a rapid pace, terrorists are often using legitimate, consumer-focused technologies, according to a new Trend Micro report.”They’re abusing legitimate technology fo…

The percentage of health care data breaches due to criminals has risen from 20 to 50 percent since 2010, but health care organizations are failing on defense, according to a new study.
On average, the percentage of health care organizations hit by …