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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…

According to the most recent Verizon data breach report, a phishing email is often the first phase of an attack. That’s because it works well, with 30 percent of phishing messages opened, but only 3 percent reported to management.But when employees …

Peak-time distributed denial-of-service attacks cost organizations more than $100,000 per hour, said half of the respondents to a new survey of mid-sized and large corporations in the U.S. and Europe.And for a third of respondents, the average peak …

Peak-time distributed denial-of-service attacks cost organizations more than $100,000 per hour, said half of the respondents to a new survey of mid-sized and large corporations in the U.S. and Europe.And for a third of respondents, the average peak …

The ninth annual Verizon Data Breach Report came out this morning with bad news on multiple fronts, including click-through rates on phishing messages, how long it takes companies to detect breaches, and even whether companies spot the breaches at a…

Every couple of weeks or so, Tom Kemp’s company gets hit by ever-more-sophisticated attempts to trick them out of large sums of money.It started two years ago, before business email compromise — also known as CEO fraud — became as widely-known as …

Fifty-four zero-day vulnerabilities were discovered last year, according to a report released this morning by Symantec, more than double that of 2014, and the number of mega-breaches of more than 10 million records also hit a record high.In fact, th…

In early February, a thief broke into several offices in Olympia, Washington to steal anything he could grab that was worth selling. In one locked drawer, the thief found a couple of external hard drives that he added to his haul of cash, cameras, e…

Overstock was one of the first online retailers to adopt Bitcoin in a big way. Now it’s become the first major company to issue stock on a trading platform powered by the blockchain.The blockchain is a distributed file system where participants keep…

Even as the White House is calling on federal agencies to make more use of open source projects, there’s also a federal effort under way to reduce the number of vulnerabilities in those products via better code review tools and bug bounties.By the e…

Companies going through a merger or acquisition, as well as their lawyers, financial advisers, and other associated firms are all tempting targets for cyberattackers, according to a new report from Digital Shadows.The attackers use public sources fo…

The FBI may have backed off from its demand that Apple build a backdoor to an iPhone security mechanism, for now at least, but experts say that a lasting legacy will remain in terms of the educational impact of the battle.John Oliver’s 18-minute seg…

In a survey released today, 27 percent of of U.S. office workers at large companies would sell their work password to an outsider, compared to a global average of 20 percent.And despite all the recent media attention on data breaches, password hygie…