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More than half of European firms admit business disruption and data loss due to cyber attacks in the past 24 months, with UK firms among the most targeted, a survey shows. One in five IT decision-makers claimed cyber attackers left no clue …
Local governments have been under siege from ransomware attacks in recent years. Colorado announced a state of emergency and called in the National Guard’s cyber team to help after its Department of Transportation was hit with SamSam ransomware in February …
Hackers likely controlled by Russia are stepping up efforts to disrupt Ukraine’s presidential election in March with cyber attacks on electoral servers and personal computers of election staff, the head of Ukraine’s cyber police said on Friday. Serhiy Demedyuk told …
The majority of UK IT security professionals feel that they are underrated by their fellow workers and employers, according to a study commissioned by privileged access management firm Thycotic. Nearly two-thirds of respondents (63%) feel that their security teams are either viewed as …
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued an emergency directive in an effort to halt a campaign of domain name system (DNS) infrastructure tampering attacks. The emergency directive comes just over a week after the computer emergency readiness team (US-Cert) issued an alert about an infrastructure …
Twitter’s lead regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), said on Friday it was investigating the company for a breach notification received from the social networking site. DUBLIN (Reuters) – Twitter’s lead regulator in the European …
Spear phishing is the act of sending and emails to specific and well-researched targets while purporting to be a trusted sender. The aim is to either infect devices with malware or convince victims to hand over information or money. Where phishing attacks began …
Hackers target West African financial sector — Tim Cook makes privacy recommendations — It’s the money issue of MC, starting with a prediction that cyberattacks will cost companies worldwide $5.2 trillion over the next five years. An Accenture study anticipates the …
Collection #1 appears to be the biggest public breach yet, with millions of unique passwords sitting out in the open. THERE ARE BREACHES, and there are megabreaches, and there’s Equifax. But a newly revealed trove of leaked data tops them all for sheer …
Seldom do people responsible for launching crippling cyberattacks face justice, but increasingly courts around the world are making examples of the few who do get busted for such crimes. On Friday, a 34-year-old Connecticut man received a whopping 10-year prison …
The U.S. intelligence community and the Pentagon have quietly agreed on the outlines of an offensive cyberattack that the United States would unleash if Russia electronically interferes with the 2018 midterm election on Nov. 6, according to current and former …
Twitter accounts linked to what has been called a Russian “troll farm” engaged in influence operations to stir division over Islam in the U.K., a new study has found. Research by British social policy think tank Demos found that the vast majority of tweets …
It’s lowkey one of the biggest problems in all of cybersecurity: Deploying a skilled workforce in the face of an overwhelming gap. With that in mind, a paper from the New America think tank out this morning proposes creating a national, volunteer …
The costs of restoring services after a DNS (Domain Name System) attack are higher for financial services firms than for companies in any other sector. According to a survey of 1,000 large financial services firms in Europe, North America and …
Microsoft added a cool, new feature to Microsoft Windows client and server products. Controlled Folder Access gives you another way to mitigate the impact of ransomware. Of course, you should enable with careful testing and custom configuration because it will …
British Airways (BA) has revealed that its August 2018 data breach affected 185,000 more customers than first thought, bringing the total number of victims to more than 500,000. BA’s swift response to the breach – which compromised the personal and financial details …
Call of Duty — it’s all fun and games until it’s not — and a gamer gets threatened with being swatted unless he cooperates with a “gang” of cyber thugs by helping to steal cryptocurrency. That’s the gist of what one Call …
IN DECEMBER, RESEARCHERS spotted a new family of industrial control malware that had been used in an attack on a Middle Eastern energy plant. Known as Triton, or Trisis, the suite of hacking tools is one of only a handful of known cyberweapons …
President Donald Trump this weekend talked about cybersecurity and election interference at two separate events. Here’s a bit of an annotation of his remarks from Friday in Scottsdale, Ariz. — Asked about Friday’s unsealed indictment of a Russian woman charged …
The upper ranks of corporate security are seeing a high rate of change as companies try to adapt to the evolving threat landscape. Many companies are hiring a chief security officer (CSO) or chief information security officer (CISO) for the …
