Equifax announced a massive breach that could impact at least 143 million US consumers. That’s 44 percent of the US population. This breach will have a significant impact on a lot of people. Companies in the financial sector take cybersecurity very seriously. Part of that work is accepting the reality of today’s threat landscape. Security…
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Responsible disclosure is a critical process in the security community. It’s the way for security researchers and vendors to work together in order to improve system security for users. We see the opposite of this process in the digital underground. Cybercriminals often sell exploits and malicious tools for profit. The ShadowBrokers—infamous for the leak of…
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I used to love sitting on the floor and watching Saturday morning cartoons. One of my favorite gags was when a character got really, really hungry. In order to emphasize the point, everything and everyone around them turned to food. The newspaper stand owner became a large hand. The baby in a stroller was suddenly…
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A select group of ten Russian gangs is molding Android SMS chargeware, the most common type of mobile phone malware, into a full-fledged business supported by a dedicated marketing team and an array of websites.
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High profile attacks have been gaining steam, with The Hill’s Brian Fitch wrote on the Congress Blog that there is an emerging need for more cyber security in Wall Street.
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The financial industry is and will continue to be one of the most lucrative for cybercriminals to attack. With the wealth of information, money and more at their fingertips, data security will be imperative for this industry to weather the storm that hackers bring.
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One of the more interesting trends of data security is the amount of cyber attacks that have come from overseas to the U.S. in recent years. The Verizon 2013 Data Breach Investigations Report showed that China and Romania had the most cyber attacks last year, with Romanian attackers looking for financial data and Chinese hackers engaging in espionage.
Read MoreCybercriminal groups are actually organized along many of the same lines as the corporate entities they’re targeting.
Read MoreSwitzerland’s intelligence service recently revealed that classified counterterrorism data had been compromised as a result of an insider breach.
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One construction company has won a landmark settlement that could redefine culpability in online banking breach cases.
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