Organizations are scrambling to identify security weaknesses before their adversaries do. Having a consistent, systematic, and scalable methodology to properly assess your environment is essential. To begin you need a solid understanding of the organization, its components, what it relies on, and what could cause it...
As data continues to grow and become increasingly regulated, organizations will need an enterprise-wide security strategy that's holistic, covering users as well as data, while also improving their compliance posture. It's easy to think of the mainframe as just another platform in the data center, until you stop and...
Another day, another data breach in the news. Ransomware at a hospital, the latest IRS breach, a phishing scam at Snapchat . . . you tune out the details. For every breach that makes headlines, dozens of other organizations have had data stolen or corrupted by hackers...or even their own users. Cyberthreats become...
Businesses around the world are seeing an increase in malware attacks, including ransomware like CryptoLocker, Locky, and zCrypt. These attacks can result in weeks of downtime, and some of the most damaging data breaches originated with malware, including the Target breach in 2014.
A robust malware defense could...
Hybrid cloud security is a hot topic, especially with the massive growth of public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft® Azure�� and Google Cloud. With the emergence of the hybrid cloud, where workloads are deployed across physical, virtual, and cloud, security professionals are constantly being...
Advanced malware is capable of outsmarting the detection capabilities of a wide range of security tools. More than 70% of malware now includes sophisticated evasion technologies. And, to make detection even more difficult, the number of evasion methods found in each instance of malware has recently jumped from one or...
Advanced malware avoids being detected and can remain hidden for extended periods of time as it conducts complex and damaging cyberattacks. This sophisticated malware is usually designed to aggressively target anything and everything that can be monetized. How can organizations safeguard their data from these...
It used to be that cybercriminals would blindly cast a wide net, sending millions of fraudulent emails in the hope that a few people would be tricked into handing over their personal or financial information. Today, targeted attacks are the weapon of choice: a far more lucrative tactic that uses malware purpose-built...
Hybrid clouds represent the new normal for data centers, which, in turn, warrants a new security model that needs to be grounded in an understanding about what is different about cloud infrastructure. IT and security professionals are well aware of the need to retool for this new normal.
Given strong adoption of...
The first quarter of 2017 brought with it some significant changes to the threat landscape, and we aren't talking about heavy ransomware distribution either. New threats and infection techniques have forced the security community to reconsider collection and analysis efforts.
This report takes a deep look at which...
In 2016, there were two contenders for king of ransomware: Locky and Cerber. So far in 2017, we've seen a massive shift in the battle between these two families, with Locky basically dropping out entirely and Cerber expanding its market share by a significant amount. New families such as Spora are emerging as well,...
March saw the arrival of a new, so-called "Fappening/ Celebgate" scandal, where leaked images and videos of naked celebrities found their way onto the web...prime real estate for scammers who started peddling numerous links across sites like Reddit and all social networks. Likewise in February, Fortune reported a tech...
A recent survey found that 51 percent of respondents' current anti-virus tools have difficulty detecting advanced persistent threats (APT), and 25 percent said they struggle with threat detection. What should you do if your own organization could be included in these statistics?
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Why do we continue to see so many cyber breaches? If we look at why most cyber breaches of the past year occurred, we see that it comes down to three major factors - the human factor, identities and credentials, and vulnerabilities. Living in a digital social society, we share more information, ultimately exposing...
As challenging as ransomware has proven to be against so many organizations across regions and sectors, certain characteristics actually can help defenders gain an edge at detecting malware. Lastline's Engin Kirda explains how.
"Ransomware is a threat that needs to be taken seriously," says Kirda, cofounder and chief...
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