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Gaza group strikes targets in Palestinian territories in new cyberattack wave

The campaign is focused on cyberespionage and may be politically motivated.

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Third-Party Breaches - and the Number of Records Exposed - Increased Sharply in 2019

Each breach exposed an average of 13 million records, Risk Based Security found.

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Florida county election office hit by ransomware before 2016 presidential election

Ransomware incident was kept secret and never reported, current county election supervisor says.

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Avast Under Investigation by Czech Privacy Agency

The software security maker is suspected of selling data about more than 100 million users to companies including Google, Microsoft, and Home Depot.

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FBI: Business Email Compromise Cost Businesses $1.7B in 2019

BEC attacks comprised nearly half of cybercrime losses last year, which totaled $3.5 billion overall as Internet-enabled crimes ramped up.

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Mozilla Firefox 73 Browser Update Fixes High-Severity RCE Bugs

The release of Firefox 73 fixed high-severity memory safety bugs that could cause arbitrary code execution and missing bounds check that could enable memory corruption.

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Stop Defending Everything

Instead, try prioritizing with the aid of a thorough asset inventory.

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SoundCloud Tackles DoS, Account Takeover Issues

Among other issues, the music platform didn't limit the number of login attempts someone could make.

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5G Adoption Should Change How Organizations Approach Security

With 5G adoption, businesses will be able to power more IoT devices and perform tasks more quickly, but there will be security ramifications.

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Chaos & Order: The Keys to Quantum-Proof Encryption

The implications of chaos form the basis of a new approach to encryption that promises quantum-proof perfect secrecy. But first, your current crypto needs some tidying up.

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Chaos May Be the Key to Quantum-Proof Encryption

The implications of chaos form the basis of a new approach to encryption that promises quantum-proof perfect secrecy.

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5 Common Errors That Allow Attackers to Go Undetected

Make these mistakes and invaders might linger in your systems for years.

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Katie Moussouris: The Bug Bounty Conflict of Interest

Katie Moussouris sounds off on the challenges behind creating successful bug bounty programs.

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Report to Your Management with the Definitive ‘IR Management and Reporting’ Presentation Template

The IR Management and Reporting Template attempt to assist the CISO – not only perform a top edge response to cyberattacks but also ensure that this professional and critical work is understood and acknowledged.

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Apple joins FIDO Alliance, commits to getting rid of passwords

Passwords are a notorious security mess. The FIDO Alliance wants to replace them with better, more secure technology and now Apple is it them in this effort.

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FBI: $3.5B Lost in 2019 to Known Cyberscams, Ransomware

Cybercriminals double down on successful internet scams, with a focus on phishing, BEC and other defrauding schemes that have proven to work.

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Average tenure of a CISO is just 26 months due to high stress and burnout

Report: The vast majority of interviewed CISO executives (88%) report high levels of stress, a third report stress-caused physical health issues, half report mental health issues.

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Intel warns of critical security flaw in CSME engine, issues discontinued product notices

The CSME system is subject to a severe bug leading to a host of different exploits.

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Adobe squashes 35 critical vulnerabilities in security patch update

Arbitrary code execution issues have eclipsed other security problems in February’s patch round.

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Play Protect blocked 1.9B malware installs from non-Google sources last year

The number of user attempts to install malware-infected apps from outside the Play Store has gone up from 1.6 billion, reported in 2017 and 2018, to 1.9 billion, last year.