The benefits of microservices include speed to market, lower costs, and greater flexibility -- but microservices also come with their own set of security and management challenges.
Maria Korolov | 02 Mar | Read more
Global efforts to combat cybercrime are built on a patchwork of alliances, taskforces and personal relationships.
Maria Korolov | 01 Mar | Read more
On March 1, new regulations go into effect in New York State, requiring that all regulated financial services institutions have a cybersecurity program in place, appoint a Chief Information Security Officer, and monitor the cybersecurity policies of their business partners.
Maria Korolov | 01 Mar | Read more
After several high-profile breaches over the past couple of years, the healthcare industry plans to increase its spending on IT security more than other sectors.
Maria Korolov | 24 Feb | Read more
Earlier this month, the IRS sent out an urgent alert warning employers that this W-2 phishing scam had spread beyond the corporate world to other sectors, including school districts, tribal organizations and nonprofits
Maria Korolov | 23 Feb | Read more
This morning, Trend Micro released a report about the exposed cyberassets in the top U.S. cities and most critical industry segments -- and in many cases, it was the smaller municipalities that had the largest number of problems.
Maria Korolov | 16 Feb | Read more
According to a report released last week by Javelin, card-not-present fraud went up 40 percent this year, but according to a new report from Visa, there has been no increase in online fraud. The increase in card-not-present fraud was part of a general increase in fraud, reported Javelin.
Maria Korolov | 08 Feb | Read more
Cybercriminals have been producing fewer new kinds of malware last year -- but that's because they're so busy raking in the money from their ransomware attacks. The number of unique malware samples discovered last year was 60 million, down 6.25 percent from last year's 64 million. The total number of malware attack attempts also fell, from 8.2 billion to 7.9 billion. This was also the first year that the company has seen attack attempts fall.
Maria Korolov | 08 Feb | Read more
Criminals are beginning to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to get around cyber defenses
Maria Korolov | 02 Feb | Read more
The total number of cybersecurity attacks fell by 35 percent in the last quarter of 2016, according to a new report, but the attacks became more targeted and sophisticated. Instead of general-purpose exploit kits and broad scanning, the attackers are zeroing in on specific targets.
Maria Korolov | 01 Feb | Read more
The number of passwords in use will grow from about 75 billion today to around 100 billion in 2020, according to a new report from Cybersecurity Ventures.
Maria Korolov | 01 Feb | Read more
Senior security industry professionals were dismayed about the travel ban imposed this weekend by President Trump, and worried that the repercussions could go far beyond the handful of countries singled out so far.
Maria Korolov | 31 Jan | Read more
Security awareness teams aren't getting the support they need to be successful, according to the SANS Institute. But some unexpected factors can cause programs to fail as well, including a focus on compliance -- and too much security expertise on the team.
Maria Korolov | 28 Jan | Read more
More than 50 percent of small and midsized businesses have fallen victim to ransomware, and, of those, 48 percent paid a ransom, according to a report released today by Ponemon Institute and Carbonite.
Maria Korolov | 25 Jan | Read more
Anti-virus software is getting worse at detecting both known and new threats, says a new report. Average detection rates for known malware went down a couple of percentage points slightly from 2015 to 2016, while detection rates for zero-days dropped in a big way.
Maria Korolov | 20 Jan | Read more