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 …
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Facebook’s Messenger app has allowed users to send money to friends using their debit cards since last spring, but recent reports indicate that Facebook may be considering a move into the retail payments space as well, following in the tracks of App…
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Despite the many news reports and employee security training that warn against doing so, one thing as sure as death and taxes is that computer users will use the simplest, easiest-to-remember password they can get away with.
Password Protection: Software can secure and manage employees’ login credentials Read More »
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…
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Phishing emails continued to evolve last year, according to a new report from PhishMe, with Microsoft Office documents and unique subject lines used to get past enterprise filters.Malicious Office macros have been around since the 1990s, said David …
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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 a…
CEO targeted by fraud twice a month Read More »
Better sensors help companies reduce shipping risks and react faster to disruptions, but costs and deployment challenges are still slowing adoption.According to a Capgemini Consulting survey released last week of 337 executives from large global man…
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According to a survey released this morning by 451 Research, 63 percent of health care industry respondents said they had experienced a breach, the highest of any industry vertical studied.But spending priorities were focused on perimeter defenses. …
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The average company’s network is accessed by 89 different vendors every week, according to a new research report that surveyed more than 600 IT decision makers at mid-sized and large enterprises — but only a third were confident that they knew the …
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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…
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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…
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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…
Millions of child support records stolen, D.C. officials want answers Read More »
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 ke…
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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…
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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…
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