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Top Five Vulnerabilities Attackers Use Against Browsers Cybersecurity has never been more of a mainstream concern than right now. Consider the breaches at major retail outlets, Apple’s vulnerability in its iOS platform, Yahoo’s recent malvertising attack, or how a breach at the University of Maryland gets a mention on NPR’s game show, Wait, Wait Don’t […]

Five Important Lessons from Recent Data Breaches I was scanning headlines the other day and noticed one that warned that medical records will be the next big target for hackers. The article focused on a new report that shows how poor cybersecurity is within the health care industry, from hospitals to insurance companies. It’s important […]

Top Five Vulnerabilities Attackers Use Against Browsers A new study from Ponemon and AccessData reveals a disturbing trend in cybersecurity. When hit with some sort of cybersecurity attack, most companies have no idea how to respond or resolve the crisis. “Threat Intelligence & Incident Response: A Study of U.S. & EMEA Organizations” (registration required to […]

Five Things to Do Now for Greater Security and Compliance In the days before the Sochi Olympics began, when the media were reporting everything that was going wrong, an NBC reporter announced that his computer was hacked almost immediately upon arriving at the Olympics. Let me say right up front that I have long admired […]

Top Social Engineering Tricks and How to Avoid Them Valentine’s Day is fast approaching. (Yes, you still have time to buy a box of chocolates and flowers, but not much time.) I’ve written before about the way the bad guys tie malware infections to special events – the Olympics, the Super Bowl, the Final Four […]

Survey Highlights Serious Security and Compliance Problems Call it the Snowden Effect, if you will. The revelations revealed by the former defense contractor have begun to reshape the way the defense industry approaches network security. According to new research from ThreatTrack, 75 percent of those who work with IT and/or IT security within the defense […]

Report Warns of Increased Severity and Sophistication in DoS/DDoS Attacks Executives from Neiman Marcus and Target went before the Senate to apologize for the breach that happened last November through December. This boggles my mind for two reasons. First, why only Target and Neiman Marcus? Why isn’t every company that has been breached or hacked […]

Six Ways a Multi-tiered Security Strategy Benefits Businesses Criminals love credit cards. As a new white paper from Symantec pointed out, credit card-related theft is one of the earliest types of cybercrime, and as we’ve seen by the recent retail breaches, credit and debit cards remain a prime target. The white paper added that Point […]

Survey Highlights Serious Security and Compliance Problems Data Privacy Day was earlier this week. I can’t think of a time when data privacy was more discussed among businesses and individuals than right now, and yet, this day to focus on privacy went largely unnoticed. At least, I had no idea it was coming until a […]

Top Social Engineering Tricks and How to Avoid Them I know that the recent retail breaches have a lot of customers worried about identity theft. But a new survey from GFI Software reveals that customers aren’t the only ones concerned, especially in an SMB setting. According to the survey, 87 percent of the nearly 1200 […]

2014 Cybersecurity Forecast Earlier this week, Lancope and Ponemon Institute put out the report “Cyber Security Incident Response: Are we as prepared as we think?,” which found that corporate leaders remain in the dark when it comes to cybersecurity. According to the study: In the past 24 months, most organizations represented in this study had […]

Top Security Priorities for CIOs in 2014 Hard to believe that it was 10 years ago when the first piece of mobile malware made its attack. According to Axelle Apvrille, senior mobile anti-virus researcher with Fortinet, the first piece of mobile malware, a worm, was called Cabir and was targeted specifically to attack the Nokia […]