FireEye’s Mandiant denies hacking Chinese hackers’ web cams
FireEye refutes hack back claims in new book.
FireEye refutes hack back claims in new book.
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority is looking into the Equifax breach that exposed records on nearly 700,000 British citizens.
UK breach nearly twice as big than first thought.
IBM’s new $US200m ($A259m) cybersecurity investment will heavily leverage its Watson artificial-intelligence technology to help the company’s specialists more effectively process the mountains of data involved in modern cybersecurity investigations, according to the unit’s newly appointed head.
David Braue | 18 Nov | Read more
Mandiant, Verizon and other cyber-forensics firms are profiting from so-called unstoppable threats like zero-day exploits and advanced persistent attacks, according to a new report from Lieberman Software.
Maria Korolov | 22 Jun | Read more
How far does stolen data get before a breach is detected? That's the question Bitglass asked -- and answered -- in a recent experiment.
Maria Korolov | 11 Apr | Read more
Hackers who went undetected for eight months gained wholesale access to medical records and other personal data of the 1.8 million Premera Blue Cross health plan members in Washington State and Alaska as well as anyone who did business with the company.
Tim Greene | 18 Mar | Read more
Hackers involved in the data breach at US health insurer, Anthem, may have ties to the Chinese government, according to a news report.
Grant Gross | 06 Feb | Read more
Hackers will use malware, among other techniques, to break into enterprise systems but once they're in, they're likely to switch away from malware to abusing privileged accounts, according to a report released today by CyberArk Software, Ltd., an Israel-based vendor of security solutions for privileged accounts.
Maria Korolov | 20 Nov | Read more
Peter Allor is the Lead Security Strategist in IBM's Critical Infrastructure Group. He works at the forefront of information security, working with researchers to look at events, as they happen, to learn about new techniques that are being adopted by attackers from a protection perspective and how to deal with those in across distributed computing in the cloud. But he is on the board of directors of FIRST - the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams and ICASI - the Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet.
Anthony Caruana | 16 Oct | Read more
According to a blog post from TrustedSec, an information security consultancy in Ohio, the breach at Community Health Systems (CHS) is the result of attackers targeting a flaw OpenSSL, CVE-2014-0160, better known as Heartbleed.
Steve Ragan | 20 Aug | Read more
About 4.5 million people in 28 states face the risk of identity theft due to a massive data breach at Community Health Systems (CHS) a Franklin, Tenn., based health network.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 19 Aug | Read more
Community Hospital Systems (CHS), which operates just over 200 hospitals in 29 states, reported a data breach impacting about 4.5 million people on Monday. The incident, blamed on actors in China, was made public via an 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Steve Ragan | 19 Aug | Read more
Threat protection company FireEye Tuesday announced it's acquiring nPulse Technologies, a privately-held maker of high-speed packet-capture, network analysis and forensics gear, for $70 million in a cash-stock deal expected to close during the second quarter.
Ellen Messmer | 07 May | Read more
A year ago, Mandiant, since acquired by FireEye, issued a long report called "APT1" that accused China's People's Liberation Army of launching cyber-espionage attacks against 141 companies in 20 industries through a group known as "PLA Unit 61398" operating mainly from Shanghai.
Ellen Messmer | 28 Feb | Read more