The truth is that the threat posed by cyber security breaches is both acute and avoidable. The key to mitigating it is to understand that cyber security isn’t simply a technology issue; it is also an urgent strategic issue that should be at the top of the agenda for every board and management team.
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Are you getting too many phone calls from spammers and telemarketers? You can take several steps to battle against those annoying, unknown callers.
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Chronicle will initially offer two services: The VirusTotal anti-malware intelligence service, and a cybersecurity intelligence and analytics platform.
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Major cyber incidents have increased by 32% between Q1 2017 and Q1 2018…
Here are the costs of different cybercrime services:
- Hacking email: $40
- DDoS attack: $50
- Hacking website: $150
- Stealing payment data $270
- Infecting with Trojan for mining: $300
- Infecting with ransomware Trojan: $750
- Stealing from ATM: $1,500
- Targeted attack: $4,500
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Just how big is the risk to small business? Big, very big. According to the Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report, 61% of breaches hit smaller businesses last year, up from the previous year’s 53%.
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Fileless security threats—also known as “non-malware” attacks—leverage RAM, the Windows system registry, and even PowerShell and the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) module to kick off multi step “attack chains.”
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The U.S. intelligence chief warned on Friday that the threat was growing for a devastating cyber assault on critical U.S. infrastructure, saying the “warning lights are blinking red again” nearly two decades after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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The rapid growth suggests that cyber criminals are drawn to the ease of infecting a user’s system and collecting the payments…
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There’s been a shift towards cryptojacking attacks, file-encrypting malware is adapting and is still potent.
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New Wi-Fi routers will come with stronger protections for the data that flows between your computers, phones or smart home devices and your internet connection. It will also boost security in workplace
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If your router is infected with malicious software, all your internet-connected devices become vulnerable, including your smartphone, computer, smart watch, television and Amazon Echo.
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Recently, a number of websites have shown this screen to users out of nowhere. The screen impersonates the MetaMask user interface…
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Mylobot incorporates a delaying mechanism which waits for two weeks before making contact with the attacker’s command and control servers — another means of avoiding detection.
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Cryptography: The art and science of keeping messages secure is cryptography…
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“This is no longer about data theft or business disruption. Someone can get hurt. It’s about physical consequences,” said Dan Scali, senior manager for FireEye’s industrial control system security consulting practice.
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The FBI has recently seen a new trend emerging for scammers to retarget past tech-support victims by posing as government officials or law enforcement, and offering assistance recovering lost funds for further fees. Some scammers also threaten legal action if victims don’t pay to settle outstanding debts for tech-support services.
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A free Google Chrome extension will tell you if your password has been leaked.
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All websites with login pages have been hit with bad bot traffic and face Account Takeover (ATO) attempts, according to a Tuesday report from Distil Networks.
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The city was hit by the notorious SamSam ransomware, which exploits a deserialization vulnerability in Java-based servers.
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With Mozilla’s release of Firefox 60 on Wednesday, web browsers will start letting you log into websites without a password
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Singh said the goal was to make it possible for end users to never deal with a password in their day-to-day lives, and to provide instead user credentials that cannot be cracked, breached, or phished.
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Social engineering scams make even the best security solutions useless, Microsoft said. It wants industry-wide collaboration to solve the problem.
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two key points to remember…
- None of what I just described involves ‘hacking’ Facebook or exploiting a bug. Instead, it all revolves around the use of a feature that Facebook provided to all developers and (at least) tens of thousands took advantage of.
- The data collected was not internal Facebook data. It was data that developers (s̵c̵r̵a̵p̵e̵d̵ ) accessed* from the profiles of people who downloaded their apps (and their friends).
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All login attempts came from instances hosted on cloud service platforms and targeted 48 businesses. The “slow-and-low” pace of attacks indicates threat actors were trying to stay under the radar; for each business, only a handful of senior employees were targeted. All those who were hit have been notified.
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Microsoft’s Office 365 suite of cloud applications is now the most popular cloud service in the world by user count. While this has fast-tracked Microsoft’s path to becoming a cloud-first enterprise software company, it has also put a bulls-eye on Office 365, making it a target of choice for hackers. …KnockKnock has been active since May 2017 and is currently still active. To go undetected, the hacking activity occurs in short stints, averaging 3-5 attempts of guessing the password of the system account before moving on to a different account within an organization. Moreover, it doesn’t display the same level of activity across multiple organizations. As it ramps up its number of attempts in one organization, it ramps down in others, further making detection difficult.
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