Infosecurity News

  1. Minority Cyber-Pros Are Better Educated but Paid Less

    Minority representation is higher than in the broader workforce, but these pros are disproportionately found in non-management roles.

  2. Cybersecurity Incident Response Still Major Issue

    Half of incident response plans are either informal, ad-hoc or completely non-existent

  3. Rush to the Cloud Risks Security Breaches

    Companies across Europe feel the pressure to move to the cloud, but neglect cybersecurity

  4. Google Moves to Ban Ads for Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency

    The ban follows a similar no-quarter approach taken by Facebook earlier this year.

  5. Playboy Develops Virtual Currency Wallet

    Online visitors will be able to pay and earn tokens to view Playboy.TV’s original content.

  6. BlackTDS Emerges as an As-a-Service Drive-By Kit for Malware Distribution

    BlackTDS hosts components for sophisticated drive-by attacks, like social engineering and redirection to exploit kits.

  7. Euro Firms Lagging on AWS CloudTrail Adoption

    Missed opportunity to use native security and compliance tools, says Sumo Logic

  8. Fortnite Gamers Warned Over Account Hacking

    Players apparently faced with large credit card charges from fraudulent purchases

  9. Microsoft Releases More Spectre/Meltdown Patches

    Patch Tuesday covers over 70 vulnerabilities this month

  10. Police Force Investigated for Possible Breach Cover-Up

    Gwent Police failed to inform ICO after discovering security issue

  11. Chinese APT Takes Aim at Pharma

    The infamous PlugX malware is targeting pharmaceutical organizations in Vietnam, aimed at stealing drug formulas.

  12. Thousands of Florida Virtual School Students Hit by Two-Year Data Breach

    The leaked information includes student and parent names, dates of birth, email addresses, school account numbers and credentials.

  13. Trojans Reign Supreme in 2017

    Geopolitics, meanwhile, seemed to guide major malware campaigns during the year.

  14. Chinese APT15 Group Steals UK Military Docs

    Government contractor targeted in sophisticated attack

  15. Nearly 90% of Firms Will Use Biometrics by 2020

    Spiceworks stats reveal tipping point for adoption

  16. Smartphone CEO Arrested After Drugs Bust

    Phantom Secure allegedly facilitated international criminals

  17. LinkedIn Updates Policies for GDPR Compliance

    LinkedIn has updated its terms of service and will become GDPR-compliant in May.

  18. IIC Releases IoT Endpoint Best Practice Guide

    The Industrial Internet Consortium is looking to simplify IoT security.

  19. Healthcare Orgs under Escalating Attack and Losing Patient Data

    A full 62% admitted to experiencing an attack in the past 12 months.

  20. CyberArk Acquires Cloud Security Provider Vaultive

    Deal will see CyberArk advance privileged account security for the cloud

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