12 cyber shopping tips because criminals will be using all the attacks they can this holiday season in order to score cash and gather valuable personal data that they can monetize later.
Tim Greene | 23 Nov | Read more
Hackers are writing apps, setting up phony Wi-Fi networks and unleashing malware in attempts to turn legitimate Black Friday and Cyber Monday retailing into profits for themselves, according to security experts.
Tim Greene | 23 Nov | Read more
Attackers who were trying to turn the Ask.com Toolbar into a malware dispensary got caught early on when their scheme was picked up by security services that were looking for anomalies.
Tim Greene | 19 Nov | Read more
IBM Security has launched a network-emulation environment where corporate teams can play out attack scenarios so they are better prepared for incidents they might face in the real world.
Tim Greene | 17 Nov | Read more
The annual holiday uptick in denial of service attacks will likely continue this year only this time with a new devastating weapon: Internet of Things (IoT) devices, according to Akamai.
Tim Greene | 16 Nov | Read more
Filling cybersecurity jobs is getting so hard managers need to think outside the box if they hope to fill critical positions.
Tim Greene | 09 Nov | Read more
ExtraHop is introducing a way to capture files just before ransomware encrypts them, making it possible to restore them but without regularly scheduled comprehensive updates.
Tim Greene | 03 Nov | Read more
Cisco has announced security upgrades to cut the time compromises go unnoticed on endpoints, giving attackers less time to do damage if they get past preventive security measures.
Tim Greene | 03 Nov | Read more
The DDoS attacks that flooded Dyn and knocked high-profile Web sites offline don’t mean businesses should abandon DNS service providers, in fact they should use more than one DNS provider for redundancy.
Tim Greene | 02 Nov | Read more
IBM Security is introducing online banking protection that flags fraudulent account users based on how they move their mouse.
Tim Greene | 01 Nov | Read more
IoT devices make good botnet material because they are poorly defended and the Mirai source code to create them has been made public.
Tim Greene | 28 Oct | Read more
Dyn says that the DDoS attack that swamped its DNS resolution service last week was backed by far fewer internet of things (IoT) devices than it thought before.
Tim Greene | 27 Oct | Read more
The massive DDoS attack that disrupted the internet address-lookup service Dyn last week was perhaps pulled off by a script kiddie targeting PlayStation Network and using Mirai malware to assemble a massive IoT botnet, according to research by Flashpoint.
Tim Greene | 26 Oct | Read more
A Q&A on what caused the Dyn DDoS attacks and what to do to protect yourself and your network.
Tim Greene | 25 Oct | Read more
The attacks that overwhelmed the internet-address lookup service provided by Dyn today were well coordinated and carefully plotted to take down data centers all over the globe, preventing customers from reaching more than 1,200 domains Dyn was in charge of.
Tim Greene | 22 Oct | Read more