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Insider Attacks Still Far More Difficult to Detect and Prevent Than External Cyber Attacks

A recent survey conducted by Gurucul of more than 320 IT security experts, found that 15 percent of people said they would delete files or change passwords upon exiting a company.

Intelligent Authentication Market Grows to Meet Demand

It's 2019 and we still don't know who the users are. That's a conclusion that both IT executives and growing security companies are eager to see solved. And according to a report from Research and Markets, that eagerness should drive the advanced authentication market to a 12% compound annual[...]

Cloud Provider PCM Suffers Data Breach

Cloud solution provider PCM has been hit with a data breach in which attackers reportedly accessed the email and file-sharing systems for some of its clients, KrebsOnSecurity reports.

Email Threats Continue to Grow as Attackers Evolve

Email continues to be an extremely effective vector for delivering malicious content because of how adept attackers have become at tricking users over the years.

Over Reliance on Public Cloud Vendor Security Puts Data and Companies at Risk of Breach

As global organizations increasingly move critical applications, regulated customer data and development work into public cloud environments, 36 percent say the number one benefit for moving workloads to the cloud is to offload security risk, a new survey from CyberArk reveals.

Customers of 3 MSPs Hit in Ransomware Attacks

Computers belonging to customers of at least three managed services providers have been hit with ransomware after attackers somehow gained access to tools used by the MSPs to remotely manage and monitor client systems.

Botnets Shift from Windows Towards Linux and IoT Platforms

Botnets in 2018 continued to use DDoS as their primary weapon to attack high-speed networks, according to NSFOCUS.

Open Banking: an Open Goal for Security?

Open Banking ultimately refers to the underlying financial technology, born alongside a new regulation - the second ‘Payment Services Directive' (PSD2) - which came into force on January 13th of last year. This new regulation will see the banks’ previous monopoly on their customer’s account[...]

Human Error Still the Cause of Many Data Breaches

With the incidence of reported data breaches on the rise, more than half of all C-suite executives (C-Suites) (53%) and nearly three in 10 Small Business Owners (SBOs) (28%) who suffered a breach reveal that human error or accidental loss by an external vendor/source was the cause of the data[...]

New Brute-Force Botnet Targeting Over 1.5 Million RDP Servers Worldwide

Security researchers have discovered an ongoing sophisticated botnet campaign that is currently brute-forcing more than 1.5 million publicly accessible Windows RDP servers on the Internet.