Security Breaches February 6, 2017 Reputation Loss of More Concern than a Data Breach Data breaches are a constant worry for most organizations, although a new study from the Ponemon Institute has shown that while the theft of data ... Read more
Compliance February 3, 2017 Children’s Health HIPAA Fine: $3.2 Million Paid to OCR to Resolve Multiple HIPAA Violations The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has announced the first Civil Monetary Penalty of the year: The Children’s Health HIPAA ... Read more
Compliance February 3, 2017 Security Flaws in Multi-Function Printers Could Lead to Password Theft Researchers at Ruhr University have discovered security flaws in multi-function printers that could be exploited remotely by hackers to shut down the printers, or worse, ... Read more
Trends & Reports February 2, 2017 Spam Email Volume has Increased: 65% of Emails are Spam Cisco Systems has released its annual Cybersecurity Report which shows that spam email volume has increased once again. 65% of all emails sent are now ... Read more
Cyber Threats February 2, 2017 New Zero Day WordPress Vulnerability: Thousands of Websites at Risk A new zero day WordPress vulnerability has been discovered in the WordPress REST API that allows content injection and user privileges to be escalated. If ... Read more
Tools & Practices February 2, 2017 Anti-Spoofing Email Security Tool Launched by IronScales IronScales, a leading Israeli cybersecurity firm, has launched a new anti-spoofing email security tool that prevents impersonation attacks using company domains and branding. The new ... Read more
Trends & Reports February 1, 2017 Cisco 2017 Cybersecurity Report Highlights Major Attack Trends Cisco has published its 2017 cybersecurity report which provides insights into the major cyberattack trends and the main threats now facing companies. This is the ... Read more
Compliance January 31, 2017 WebEx Browser Extension Flaw Patched by Cisco Systems A WebEx browser extension flaw discovered by Google’s Tavis Ormandy has now been patched by Cisco Systems. The critical vulnerability affects the Cisco WebEx Meetings ... Read more
Cyber Threats January 31, 2017 Beazley Report Details Biggest Security Threats in 2016 Beazley, a provider of cybersecurity insurance for businesses, has released a new report detailing the biggest security threats in 2016. For the report, Beazley analyzed ... Read more
Compliance January 30, 2017 Increased Security Spending Does Not Equate to Better Cybersecurity Defenses Increasing spending on cybersecurity solutions will not necessarily mean organizations are better equipped to deal with cyber threats. While many organizations choose to increase spending ... Read more
Tools & Practices January 30, 2017 Latest CloudCheckr Update Adds New Right-Sizing Capability After listening to feedback from its users, CloudCheckr has made a slew of updates to its platform in January to improve usability. The firm has ... Read more
Tools & Practices January 30, 2017 PhishLine Uses Integrated Personality Assessments to Tailor Security Awareness Training to the Individual Cybercriminals often send phishing campaigns randomly. A typical organization may see phishing emails reach scores of inboxes. Training can be provided to reduce susceptibility to ... Read more
Tools & Practices January 28, 2017 Spotinst Launches New Load Balancer Service Spotinst, the leading cloud monitoring and optimization solution provider, has launched a new load balancing service for cloud-based applications. Load balancing solutions currently on the ... Read more
Tools & Practices January 27, 2017 Gmail to Start Blocking JavaScript Attachments from February 2017 Blocking JavaScript attachments can help to reduce malware and ransomware infections, yet Google has resisted adding the file attachments to its banned list. However, that ... Read more
Trends & Reports January 27, 2017 Kroll Publishes Global Fraud and Risk Report for 2016/2017 The 2016/2017 Kroll Annual Global Fraud and Risk Report has just been released, highlighting just how frequently cybersecurity incidents are experienced by businesses. According to ... Read more
Trends & Reports January 27, 2017 Over 220 Trend Micro Security Vulnerabilities Discovered in 6 Months Two security researchers have discovered more than 220 Trend Micro security vulnerabilities in the past 6 months. 194 of those vulnerabilities were rated as critical ... Read more
Security Breaches January 26, 2017 Google Removes Ransomware App from Its Play Store An app in the Google Play store has been discovered to have been loaded with ransomware. Google has recently removed the ransomware app from its ... Read more
Cyber Threats January 26, 2017 Sophos Launches Phish Threat Phishing Email Simulator Leading cybersecurity firm Sophos has announced the launch of a new phishing attack simulation platform. Sophos Phish Threat is billed as the easiest-to-use phishing attack ... Read more
Security Breaches January 25, 2017 SEC Investigation of Yahoo Breach Launched The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will be investigating Yahoo over the two massive data breaches announced late last year. The SEC investigation of Yahoo ... Read more
Trends & Reports January 24, 2017 Worst Passwords of 2016 Revealed The worst passwords of 2016 have been revealed by SplashData. This year’s report shows the same mistakes are still being made by end users. Even ... Read more
Compliance January 24, 2017 Cybercrime Battle is Being Lost, Say CIOs A recent survey by enterprise security firm Bromium has revealed that CIOs believe the battle against cybercrime is being lost. The survey, which was conducted ... Read more
Trends & Reports January 23, 2017 HPE Announces Acquisition of Cloud Cruiser HPE has announced a deal has been struck to purchase the cloud consumption analytics SaaS firm Cloud Cruiser. While a definitive agreement has been reached ... Read more
Cyber Threats January 20, 2017 Biomedical Research Labs Targeted with Ancient Mac Malware Security researchers have discovered a new Mac malware that is being used in targeted attacks on biomedical research organizations. However, while the malicious code is ... Read more
Compliance January 20, 2017 Ironscales Announces 302% Growth of Annual Revenue Israeli cybersecurity firm Ironscales has announced it has recorded an increase in annual revenue of 302% in 2016. Ironscales provides services that help organizations deal ... Read more
Trends & Reports January 20, 2017 Wombat Releases Annual State of the Phish Report Wombat Security Technologies has released its third annual State of the Phish Report. The report details the phishing trends from the past 12 months. To ... Read more
Tools & Practices January 19, 2017 MAPFRE Life HIPAA Settlement: $2.2 Million for Impermissible Disclosure of ePHI MAPFRE Life Insurance Company of Puerto Rico has settled potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) with the Department of Health ... Read more
Compliance January 18, 2017 2016 Healthcare Data Breach Report Published The 2016 healthcare data breach report from cybersecurity company Protenus shows that 2016 was a record-breaking year for healthcare data breaches. In 2016, more than ... Read more
Compliance January 16, 2017 Sentara Healthcare Data Breach Investigated Sentara Healthcare is investigating a data breach suffered by one of its third-party vendors that resulted in patients’ protected health information being accessed by an ... Read more
Security Breaches January 15, 2017 Ransomware Infection Impacting 19,000 Individuals Investigated by Highmark BCBS of Delaware A subcontractor of Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware has experienced a ransomware infection and cyberattack that has potentially compromised the personal information of ... Read more
Cyber Threats January 13, 2017 Disk-Wiping Malware Used to Wipe Virtual Desktops Disk-wiping malware has been around for many years; however, a new variant of an old malware variant has been discovered that is being use to ... Read more