The average large global enterprise has about 2,400 unsafe apps on the mobile devices in its environment, according to a new study from mobile security vendor Veracode.
Maria Korolov | 12 Mar | Read more
The majority of security professionals, 54 percent, said they were under more pressure in 2014 than the year before, and 84 percent said they needed more staff, according to a report released today.
Maria Korolov | 12 Mar | Read more
Last week, U.S. Marshals sold off another 50,000 Bitcoins that used to belong to Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht -- a.k.a. "Dream Pirate Roberts." Ulbricht was found guilty on all accounts last month, and faces up to life in prison.
Maria Korolov | 10 Mar | Read more
Criminals setting up fake domains for phishing are prone to use the same words over and over and spotting those words can help identify malicious sites, according to a new threat detection model from OpenDNS.
Maria Korolov | 07 Mar | Read more
Coordinated global enforcement efforts reduced the number of financial Trojans by more than half -- 53 percent -- in 2014, according to a new report from Symantec, and phishing email rates fell 74 percent.
Maria Korolov | 06 Mar | Read more
Attackers have set up around 10,000 malicious subdomains on accounts belonging to GoDaddy customers, according to a new report from Cisco's Talos Security Intelligence and Research Group.
Maria Korolov | 05 Mar | Read more
Geofencing technology -- tracking the location of a mobile device -- could offer an extra layer of security for enterprises trying to manage both company-owned and employee-owned devices. However, the technology can also raise worries about privacy and battery life.
Maria Korolov | 04 Mar | Read more
One of the main topics at this year's CSO50 conference is how security departments could reinvent themselves as business enablers.
Maria Korolov | 26 Feb | Read more
The malware landscape changed last year compared to previous years, with attackers increasingly focus on the mobile channel and embracing cryptoransomware, according to a new report from Trend Micro.
Maria Korolov | 25 Feb | Read more
Ask security pros what they would change about the Internet if they could go back in time knowing what they know now, and most can point to a list of mistakes we could have avoided.
Maria Korolov | 24 Feb | Read more
Researchers were able to get sensitive corporate information just by looking around corporate offices in 88 percent of attempts, according to a new study.
Maria Korolov | 21 Feb | Read more
Two out of every 1,000 employee smartphones in the U.S., on average, are infected with commercial "child-monitoring" spyware, according to a study by security firms Lacoon Mobile Security and Check Point.
Maria Korolov | 20 Feb | Read more
Newly-disclosed vulnerabilities in Flash and Java were the ones to watch out for this winter, according to a new report by Copenhagen-based security firm Secunia.
Maria Korolov | 19 Feb | Read more
Fraudsters targeting an Omaha company last summer used extremely well-targeted emails to convince its controller to send a series of wires totaling $17.2 million to a bank in China.
Maria Korolov | 17 Feb | Read more
The majority of new malware is added to antivirus signature databases within 24 hours of first appearance, and 93 percent is detected within a month, but it can take as long as six months for antivirus to catch the remaining 7 percent, according to a new study by Atlanta-based security vendor Damballa, Inc.
Maria Korolov | 14 Feb | Read more