2017, The Year When Cyber Crime Hit Close to Home: Europol
Posted By - DynamicCISO,
Posted on - Thursday, September 28th, 2017 07:24:00 AM
The past 12 months have seen a number of unprecedented cyber-attacks in terms of their global scale, impact and rate of spread. Already causing widespread public concern, these attacks only represent a small sample of the wide array of cyber threats we now face.
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Europol's EC3 and Trend Micro Partner to Protect Financial Industry from ATM Malware
Posted By - DynamicCISO,
Posted on - Wednesday, September 27th, 2017 11:58:00 AM
Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and Trend Micro have released a comprehensive report on the current state of ATM Malware. Cashing in on ATM Malware details both physical and network-based malware attacks on ATMs, as well as highlights where the malware is created.
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Cyberattacks Target Healthcare and Social Media Users: McAfee Report
Posted By - DynamicCISO,
Posted on - Tuesday, September 26th, 2017 10:07:00 AM
McAfee Labs saw healthcare surpass public sector to report the greatest number of security incidents in Q2, while the Faceliker Trojan helped drive quarter’s 67% increase in new malware samples from the social media landscape.
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Identity Theft and Poor Internal Security Practices Take a Toll: Gemalto Report
Posted By - DynamicCISO,
Posted on - Monday, September 25th, 2017 10:22:00 AM
Compared to the last six months of 2016, the number of lost, stolen or compromised records increased by a staggering 164%. A large portion came from the 22 largest data breaches, each involving more than one million compromised records.
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Cybercriminals Deploying Diverse Range of Banking Trojans and Ransomware: Check Point Report
Posted By - DynamicCISO,
Posted on - Monday, September 25th, 2017 10:09:00 AM
The Zeus, Ramnit and Trickbot banking trojans all appeared in the top ten. These Trojans work by identifying when the victim is visiting a banking website, and then use keylogging or webinjects to harvest basic login credentials or more sensitive information such as PIN numbers.
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SecureAuth Raises Over $200M to Confront the New Reality of Cybersecurity
Posted By - DynamicCISO,
Posted on - Monday, September 25th, 2017 09:58:00 AM
The merged company combines the strengths of security operations and identity and access management (IAM) to offer a comprehensive platform for security operations. The newly merged company will bring together over 1,500 customers, 360 employees, and a network of global locations.
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Digital Future a Fragile Mix of Promise and Uncertainty: Internet Society Report
Posted By - DynamicCISO,
Posted on - Wednesday, September 20th, 2017 09:47:00 AM
Entitled “Paths to our Digital Future,” the 2017 Global Internet Report examines the Internet over the next five to seven years and identifies the factors that will shape its future. The report uncovers a mix of challenges and opportunities in safeguarding the Internet for next generation.
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Palo Alto Networks Strengthens Ransomware Prevention Capabilities With New Traps Advanced Endpoint Functionality
Posted By - DynamicCISO,
Posted on - Wednesday, September 20th, 2017 09:40:00 AM
Palo Alto Networks announced enhancements to its Traps advanced endpoint protection offering that strengthen current ransomware prevention by monitoring for new techniques and ransomware behavior and, upon detection, prevent the attack and resulting encryption of data.
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State of the Union 2017 - Cybersecurity: Commission Scales up EU's Response to Cyber-attacks
Posted By - DynamicCISO,
Posted on - Wednesday, September 20th, 2017 09:33:00 AM
EU vows to build a stronger resilience to cyber-attacks and create an effective EU cyber deterrence and criminal law response to better protect Europe's citizens, businesses and public institutions. This is what today's Cybersecurity Package is about.
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Compromised LinkedIn Accounts Used to Send Phishing Links via Private Message and InMail: Malwarebytes Researcher
Posted By - DynamicCISO,
Posted on - Thursday, September 14th, 2017 12:26:00 PM
Phishing continues to be a criminals’ favourite for harvesting user credentials with more or less sophisticated social engineering tricks. In this post, we take a look at a recent attack that uses existing LinkedIn user accounts to send phishing links to their contacts via private message but also to external members via email.
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Trend Micro Strengthens its Security Offerings in Trend Micro Security
Posted By - DynamicCISO,
Posted on - Wednesday, September 13th, 2017 11:05:00 AM
In an age where safety is key, whether it be in a car, airplane or on a computer, consumers are continuing to push for enhanced safety and functionality. Yesterday Trend Micro announced strengthening of its portfolio with the release of Trend Micro Security for 2018.
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SSH Keys Need To Be Properly Managed To Ensure Compliance and Reduce Risk: ISACA Report
Posted By - DynamicCISO,
Posted on - Wednesday, September 13th, 2017 10:53:00 AM
Secure Shell (SSH) is ubiquitous, a critical service on which the security profile of most organizations depends. Yet, according to a new report issued by ISACA and sponsored by SSH Communications Security, only rarely is that usage appropriately secured, assessed, documented and managed in a systematic and risk-aware way. Consequently, poorly mana
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Nearly Half of SMBs Will Pay a Ransom on IoT Devices to Reclaim Data
Posted By - DynamicCISO,
Posted on - Tuesday, September 12th, 2017 07:18:00 AM
The study, “Ransomware of Things: When Ransomware and IoT Collide,” was conducted in collaboration with Survey Sampling International and reveals that most small-to-mid-sized businesses (SMBs) do not have advanced detection and response capabilities for ransomware, advanced persistent threats (APT) and zero day attacks.
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Parental Control is Dead, says F-Secure
Posted By - DynamicCISO,
Posted on - Monday, September 11th, 2017 10:19:00 AM
F-Secure SAFE provides comprehensive yet simple antivirus and Internet Security for all devices while F-Secure TOTAL offers the same award-winning protection along with F-Secure’s world-renowned FREEDOME VPN, which maintains privacy online.
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Cisco Spark Strengthens Security, Compliance, and Analytics
Posted By - DynamicCISO,
Posted on - Tuesday, September 5th, 2017 09:53:00 AM
Cisco understands the importance of security, compliance, and analytics. It infuses this thinking into everything the company does. So it’s no surprise that its mission in collaboration has always been to give its customers incredible tools to bring ideas to life that provide world-class security and analytics.
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New NIST Password Guidance Provides Important Updates, But Survey Shows It Will Take Time to Implement
Posted By - DynamicCISO,
Posted on - Tuesday, September 5th, 2017 09:43:00 AM
New computing password guidance from National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will make for more secure and easier-to-remember passwords, but ISACA research shows it will take time to raise awareness and implement, particularly in mainframe environments.
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McAfee Announces MOVE AntiVirus for VMware Cloud on AWS
Posted By - DynamicCISO,
Posted on - Monday, September 4th, 2017 11:53:00 AM
Traditional security solutions that run on every VM contribute to high disk central processing units (CPU) and memory usage resulting in reduced VM density on each hypervisor. McAfee MOVE AntiVirus solves this issue by offloading all on-access scanning to a dedicated VM that runs McAfee VirusScan Enterprise.
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Palo Alto Networks Announces Next-Generation Security Platform for VMware Cloud on AWS
Posted By - DynamicCISO,
Posted on - Monday, September 4th, 2017 11:45:00 AM
Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Security Platform allows customers to protect their on-premise, private and public cloud presence with next-generation security features that deliver superior visibility, control and threat prevention at the application level
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VMware Delivers Industry-First Unified End User Experience, Management and Security Solution for All Endpoint Platforms
Posted By - DynamicCISO,
Posted on - Friday, September 1st, 2017 11:34:00 AM
Customers will now have the ability to use Workspace ONE as a single solution to enable unified endpoint management (UEM) and unify the end user experience across all endpoint platforms including Windows, macOS, Chrome OS, iOS, and Android.
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VMware Transforms Security for Applications Running on VMware vSphere(R)-based Virtualized and Cloud Environments
Posted By - DynamicCISO,
Posted on - Friday, September 1st, 2017 11:18:00 AM
This new security solution leverages the virtual infrastructure to monitor running applications against their intended state and can detect and automate response to attacks that attempt to manipulate those applications.
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