October 31, 2016 Joomla Website Attacks Increase as Hackers Reverse Engineer Patches Two recently discovered critical vulnerabilities in the Joomla content management system are now being used by hackers in a wave of attacks on Joomla websites. ... Read more
October 27, 2016 Beazley Data Breach Insights Report Highlights Extent of Ransomware Problem The Beazley Data Breach Insights Report is an annual publication summarizing the data breaches experienced by the company’s clients in the first nine months of ... Read more
October 27, 2016 New Locky Ransomware Variant Detected in Three Major Campaigns Locky ransomware continues to spread at an alarming pace, in part due to the number of different Locky ransomware variants that have now been released. ... Read more
October 26, 2016 4.3 Million IoT Devices Recalled in Effort to Curb DDoS Attacks Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology – a major Chinese electronics company – has announced it is recalling thousands of IoT devices after they were hijacked by hackers ... Read more
October 21, 2016 Lack of Skilled CyberSecurity Experts Hampering Breach Response The nation faces a serious shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals and the lack of skilled staff is making it hard for organizations to prevent cyber-attacks ... Read more
October 21, 2016 New Tool Allows Windows Users to Protect Against Master Boot Record Attacks Researchers from Talos team at Cisco Systems have released a new tool that can protect against master boot record attacks on Windows computers that are ... Read more
October 21, 2016 Weebly Data Breach Impacts 43 Million Customers A massive Weebly data breach has been uncovered that impacts 43,430,316 customers who have previously created websites using the drag and drop website creation platform. ... Read more
October 20, 2016 2012 LinkedIn Data Breach: Suspect Arrested in Prague The 2012 LinkedIn data breach was one of the largest ever reported. More than 117 million user credentials were stolen in the attack. This year ... Read more
October 18, 2016 Rainbow Children’s Clinic Ransomware Attack Announced A recent Rainbow Children’s Clinic ransomware attack has resulted in the protected health information of patients being encrypted and made inaccessible to pediatricians and other ... Read more
October 18, 2016 CalOptima Data Breach Announced: 56K Members Impacted A second CalOptima data breach has been announced just a few weeks after 1,000 members were informed that some of their protected health information had ... Read more
October 14, 2016 Ransomware Threat Not Understood by 60% Office Employees in the U.S. According to Symantec, ransomware attacks are now being conducted at a rate of 4,000 a day, yet a recent survey has shown that six out ... Read more
October 13, 2016 Massive Amazon Data Breach? Just a Precautionary Password Reset Apparently Rumors have been circulating that a massive Amazon data breach had occurred following the decision by the online retail giant to reset the passwords of ... Read more
October 13, 2016 Confidence in Data Breach Preparedness Found to be Lacking According to a recent study conducted by the Ponemon Institute, the vast majority of companies now have a data breach response plan in place, yet ... Read more
October 12, 2016 2016 Ransomware Trends Analyzed by BitSight A new report on 2016 ransomware trends has recently been released by security firm BitSight. For the report, BitSight researchers analyzed 2016 ransomware trends across ... Read more
October 11, 2016 Virlock Ransomware Capable of Spreading via Cloud Sync Virlock Ransomware has been around since 2014; however, the latest version of the file-encrypting malware has a host of new capabilities making it even more ... Read more
October 10, 2016 Chinese Firm Blamed for Massive DDoS Attacks Last month, the first recorded 1-Terabyte Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack was recorded. The attack involved a massive botnet called Mirai, which consisted of ... Read more
October 10, 2016 NHS Ransomware Attacks Have Increased by 400% Attacks on healthcare organizations in the United States have increased sharply this year, but the country is not alone: In the UK, NHS ransomware attacks ... Read more
October 7, 2016 Zero-Day WinRAR Vulnerability is Simply a New Attack Vector In late September, news surfaced of a new zero-day WinRAR vulnerability affecting the latest version (WinRAR 5.21) of the software. If exploited, users would risk ... Read more
October 7, 2016 Yahoo Acquisition Price May Be Reduced After Massive Data Breach According to a recent article in the New York Post, the Yahoo acquisition price may be reduced following the massive data breach that was reported ... Read more
October 4, 2016 MarsJoke Ransomware Decryptor Now Available Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab’s anti-ransom team have released a MarsJoke Ransomware decryptor which can be downloaded free of charge from the Kaspersky website. The ... Read more
October 4, 2016 Rise in IOT DDoS Attacks Predicted After Release of Mirai Malware Code The code for a Trojan capable of creating an IoT botnet for use in massive distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) has been released on a hacking ... Read more
October 3, 2016 Yahoo Cyberattack Potentially More than Twice Reported Size The massive Yahoo cyberattack was recently reported to have impacted 500 million users. Yahoo also claimed that the attack appeared to have been conducted by ... Read more
October 3, 2016 New Survey Shows Insider Data Breaches Increasing According to a new report from cloud security software vendor Bitglass, insider data breaches have increased over the course of the past year. While malicious ... Read more
October 1, 2016 Less Than Half of IT Professionals Securely Wipe Hard Drives and Delete Data A recent survey conducted by Blancco Technology Group has revealed that fewer than half of IT professionals securely wipe hard drives and delete data. The ... Read more
September 30, 2016 New Jersey Spine Center Ransomware Attack: No Alternative but to Pay Ransom A recent New Jersey Spine Center ransomware attack resulted in electronic patient health records being locked with powerful encryption. The attack involved the ransomware variant ... Read more
September 30, 2016 Data Breach Notification Law in California Updated Data breach notification law in California has been updated again, further strengthening the already stringent laws in the state. Data breach notification law in California ... Read more
September 29, 2016 State-Sponsored Hackers Not Responsible for Yahoo Breach, Says InfoArmor It was the biggest cyberattack ever reported, affecting more than 500 million individuals, but there is currently considerable debate as to who was responsible. Yahoo ... Read more
September 29, 2016 1Tbps DDoS Attack Recorded by Web Hosting Company A series of DDoS attacks have hit a French web hosting company over the past few days, culminating in a 1Tbps DDoS attack – The ... Read more
September 28, 2016 MarsJoke Ransomware Campaign Discovered: K12 Schools Targeted A massive spam email campaign was launched this week to spread MarsJoke Ransomware, a relatively new ransomware variant that was first discovered by Proofpoint researcher ... Read more
September 28, 2016 New Study Casts Doubt on Data Breach Cost Estimates Data breach cost estimates from the Ponemon Institute suggest a breach of sensitive data costs an average of $4 million to resolve. However, a new ... Read more