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Huge DDoS Attacks Shift Tactics in 2019

Analysis of two high-volume DDoS attacks show they're becoming more difficult to remediate with changes to port and address strategies.

Over Dozen Popular Email Clients Found Vulnerable to Signature Spoofing Attacks

A team of security researchers has discovered several vulnerabilities in various implementations of OpenPGP and S/MIME email signature verification that could allow attackers to spoof signatures on over a dozen of popular email clients.

60% of Businesses Have Experienced a Serious Security Breach in the Last Two Years

There is an increase in security breaches and businesses still face challenges surrounding cyberattacks due to lack of IT security and operations basics.

Industry Report: Bad Bot Landscape 2019 - The Bot Arms Race Continues

GlobalDots’ Bad Bot Landscape 2019 report investigates the daily attacks that sneak past sensors and wreak havoc on websites. It’s based on 2018 data collected from GlobalDots’ global network and includes hundreds of billions of bad bot requests anonymized over thousands of domains. Our goal is to[...]

6 Takeaways from Ransomware Attacks in Q1

Ransomware attacks may be declining in number but almost every other metric related to the threat is trending upward: higher ransom payments, more downtime loss, and longer recovery time.

77% of Organizations Lack a Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan

How prepared are organizations when it comes to withstanding and recovering from a cyberattack? The fourth annual benchmark study on Cyber Resilience by IBM Security and the Ponemon Institute showed that 77 percent of them are still do not have a cybersecurity incident response plan applied[...]

Threat Group Employs Amazon-Style Fulfillment Model to Distribute Malware

A threat group with possible connections to the operators of the notorious Necurs botnet has employed what security vendor Bromium this week described as an Amazon-style fulfillment model to host and distribute malware on behalf of other cybercriminals.

Security and Privacy Still the Top Inhibitors of Cloud Adoption

Cloud adoption is gaining momentum, as 36 percent of organizations are currently in the process of migrating to the cloud while close to 20 percent consider themselves to be in the advanced stages of implementation.

87% of Cloud Pros Say Lack of Visibility Masks Security

Most (84%) businesses increased their cloud-based workloads in 2018, but lack of visibility into those workloads could compromise security and business value, cloud experts report. Only 13% of companies surveyed reported the same level of public cloud usage as the previous year.

Attackers Compromise ASUS Software Update Servers to Distribute Malware

Taiwanese computer maker ASUS may have inadvertently distributed malware to over 1 million users of its systems worldwide after attackers compromised software update servers at the company last year, Kaspersky Lab said in a report Monday.