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Two years after the OPM data breach: What government agencies must do now

The Office of Personnel Management breach in June 2015 was a big wake up call to our federal government, and, in its wake, a number of initiatives were launched to improve the government’s cybersecurity posture. Despite several concrete improvements, progress has stalled in some areas, as demonstrated by a series of assessments conducted since the […]

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With new dynamic capabilities, will whitelisting finally catch on?

CIO Asia, CSO, IT News

Everybody knows and hates whitelisting. Employees are only allowed to install approved software on their desktops and laptops, so they’re always complaining and asking for exceptions. Management eventually gets fed up with it and stops the experiment. For mobile devices, enterprises have a number of tools at their disposal, including mobile device management. In addition,

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Few firms will be ready for new European breach disclosure rules, fines

CSO, IT News, ITworld

The new European General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect next May, but a year might not be enough for firms to get ready

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APT3 hackers linked to Chinese intelligence

CSO

The APT3 hacker group has been linked to the Chinese Ministry of State Security

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Be wary of fake WannaCry fixes

CSO, IT News

When the WannaCry malware hit, users scrambled for fixes. But some solutions were just malware in disguise

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Suffolk County greets hurricane season with updated alerting system

CIO Asia, CSO, IT News

Long Island’s Suffolk County is improving its emergency communications for National Hurricane Preparedness Week

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Cybercrooks fight over DDoS attack resources

CIO, CIO Asia, CSO, IT News, Network World

As more groups get into the denial-of-service attack business they’re starting to get in each other’s way

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Ad network takes steps to reduce fraud

CIO, CSO, IT News, Network World

The fraud rates for online ads are scary, with advertisers losing billions of dollars each year.Last week, Pixalate released a report showing that 35 percent of U.S. desktop ad impressions sold through programmatic advertising networks are fraudulen…

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Report: Average ransomware demand now over $1,000

CIO, CSO, IT News

The average amount of a ransomware demand has increased from $294 in 2015 to $1,077 last year, according to a report released last week by Symantec.”That’s a pretty dramatic increase,” said Kevin Haley, director of security response at Symantec.Acco…

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Criminals turning to fraudulent gift cards

CSO

As retailers and other businesses increase security measures to prevent the use of gift cards purchased with stolen credit card numbers, cyber criminals have been focusing on fraudulent gift cards, according to a report released this morning by Flas…

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Automated mitigation on endpoint devices and networks can be tricky

CIO, CSO, Network World

Many companies have automated systems in place for preventing, detecting, and investigating security incidents, but automating the incident response and mitigation process for networks and endpoint devices has been a tougher nut to crack.That includ…

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Security automation is maturing, but many firms not ready for adoption

CIO, CSO

The security automation industry is still in its infancy, with most vendors just a year or two old, but there are already some promising technologies that enterprises can put to use — if they have already laid the required ground work.The main prob…

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How the insurance industry could change the game for security

CIO, CIO Asia, CSO, Network World

The recent growth in the cyber insurance market is already improving cybersecurity in some industry segments, and has the potential to do more — if the industry is able to address its data problem.One area where cyber insurance has already made an …

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Latest OWASP Top 10 looks at APIs, web apps

CIO, CIO Asia, CSO, Network World

The new release of the OWASP Top 10 list is out for public comment from the Open Web Application Security Project, and while most of it remains the same there are a couple of new additions, focusing on protections for web applications and APIs.To ma…

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Cyberespionage, ransomware big gainers in new Verizon breach report

CIO, CSO, Network World

Verizon released its tenth annual breach report this morning, and cyberespionage and ransomware were the big gainers in 2016.Cyberspionage accounted for 21 percent of cases analyzed, up from 13 percent last year, and was the most common type of atta…

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