A new report by CyberEdge Group singles out advanced security analytics as the most most popular new security technology for this year, with 47% security professionals planning to invest in this …
NIST’s Ron Ross on the state of cyber: ‘We literally are hemorrhaging critical information’
According to Ron Ross of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the US government is "literally [...] hemorrhaging critical information about key programs" as a result of attacks by …
72 Percent of Americans Are Concerned About Their Privacy, Symantec Report Says
A new Symantec study sheds light on US consumer attitudes toward data privacy. According to the survey, most Americans consider data protection to be a right and the vast majority (72%) of people are …
90% of large tech companies vulnerable to email spoofing
A new Valimail survey shows that the vast majority of organizations have not properly implemented open standards for email authentication, leaving 90% of firms vulnerable to spam and phishing attacks …
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IT Security Pros Slam State-Backed Encryption Backdoors
New Venafi research shows that the vast majority of IT professionals have major problems with state-enforced encryption backdoors. Almost 3 in 4 (73%) respondents believe that state laws mandating …
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Inside Cyber Battlefields, the Newest Domain of War
According to Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure, "we are in the very beginning of the cyber arms race." Due to technological innovation, wars are now increasingly fought in the digital …
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Hundreds of compromised WordPress and Joomla websites are serving up malware to visitors
Researchers with Zscaler warn that threat actors are increasingly trying to take advantage of flaws in the immensely popular content management systems (CMSs) WordPress and Joomla in order to get …
Cyber Threat Analysis Report Volume 1, Edition 3
Cyber Threat ‘Wider Than Ever’ The cyber threat is "wider than ever" and encompasses serious aggressors abroad, notably in China and Russia, David L. Bowdich, deputy director of the Federal Bureau of …
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Employee mistakes and system errors are a larger threat to data security than hackers or insiders
The findings of a new study by nCipher Security and the Ponemon Institute imply that companies are more worried about security incidents resulting from errors than is true for intentional malicious …
Enterprises fear disruption to business critical applications, yet don’t prioritize securing them
A new CyberArk report exposes various inconsistencies in how organizations approach cybersecurity. The survey found that even though 61% of firms believe that downtime affecting critical applications …