There are many more openings for security systems administrators than qualified applicants. That creates opportunities for IT professionals willing to get the training and certification.
Maria Korolov | 11 Apr | Read more
At least 30 percent of malware today is new, zero-day malware that is missed by traditional antivirus defenses, according to a new report
Maria Korolov | 05 Apr | Read more
Ransomware grew into a $1 billion industry last year, and ransom payments now account for nearly 10 percent of the entire Bitcoin economy. Avoiding becoming part of that statistic requires good endpoint security and effective backups. But what if your defenses fail, your backups are inadequate, all attempts to restore the data fail, and you have to pay the ransom after all -- what do you do?
Maria Korolov | 04 Apr | Read more
Famed anti-virus vendor McAfee is an independent company again as the sale of the majority of the firm to private equity firm TPG became final this morning. All current McAfee personnel, including research analysts, sales teams and support staff will remain in place, and products and pricing will also stay the same.
Maria Korolov | 04 Apr | Read more
The emergence of the DDoS-as-a-service industry has lowered the costs for attacks to $25 or less, allowing criminals with no technical expertise to reach profit margins of up to 95 percent, according to a report released last week
Maria Korolov | 01 Apr | Read more
Financial services companies as popular targets of cybercriminals for the obvious reason -- they're where the money's at. And health care companies have medical records, which are very valuable on the black market since the information there can be abused in so many ways, and doesn't expire. HealthExpense, which provides health care payment services to banks and their enterprise customers, straddles both worlds.
Maria Korolov | 31 Mar | Read more
New York reported a record high number of breaches last year, just after a new set of cybersecurity regulations went into effect in the state.
Maria Korolov | 29 Mar | Read more
The price of a single Bitcoin passed that of an ounce of gold for the first time this month, and scammers were quick to get in on the action with Ponzi schemes and phishing sites spread via social media.
Maria Korolov | 24 Mar | Read more
Last week, the Trump administration announced the appointment of a White House cybersecurity coordinator. That's a good first step, security experts say, but the government also needs to have a federal CISO
Maria Korolov | 23 Mar | Read more
This past weekend at SXSW, two Congressmen suggested that the U.S. create a cybersecurity reserves system, similar to the National Guard, but the idea has received a mixed welcome from the cybersecurity community
Maria Korolov | 17 Mar | Read more
Last month, reports came out that Apple accidentally installed a fake firmware patch on internal development servers. That's a lesson to all companies to be careful about where they get their patches.
Maria Korolov | 16 Mar | Read more
Earlier this week, Danish-speaking users were hit by malware spread through Dropbox, but the company responded quickly to shut down the attack
Maria Korolov | 11 Mar | Read more
Kaspersky Labs announced new research this morning that shows some links between the massive Shamoon attack that took down 35,000 computers in Saudia Arabia to a new attack against a target in Europe
Maria Korolov | 07 Mar | Read more
Howard Schmidt advised both President Brack Obama and George W. Bush on cybersecurity. He was a CSO at Microsoft and a CISO at eBay. He led several industry groups, and wrote books on cybersecurity. But when security professionals remember him, it is not so much for his technical accomplishments as for the impact he had on the people around him. He is remembered as a mentor, a communicator, and an educator
Maria Korolov | 03 Mar | Read more
In a new study of leading robot manufacturers, most had serious security vulnerabilities which could allow hackers to take over and reprogram the robots to spy on their owners, cause property damage, or even attack humans.
Maria Korolov | 02 Mar | Read more