In fact, Europol’s Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA), named ransomware the top threat that companies, consumers, and the public sector faced in 2019.
John Fokker, McAfee | 05 Dec | Read more
Computer-based facial recognition, in its earliest forms, has been around since the mid-1960s.
Steve Povolny, McAfee | 05 Dec | Read more
The ability to create manipulated content is not new.
Steve Grobman, McAfee | 05 Dec | Read more
With 2019’s headlines of ransomware, malware, and RDP attacks almost behind us, we shift our focus to the cybercrime threats ahead.
Raj Samani, McAfee | 05 Dec | Read more
VPNs are part of a security strategy based on the notion of a network perimeter; trusted employees are on the inside and untrusted employees are on the outside. But that model no longer works in a modern business environment where mobile users access the network from a variety of locations and corporate assets reside in multi-cloud environments.
Neal Weinberg | 05 Dec | Read more
Politicising cyber security only serves to undermine trust in its practices and objectivity, experts fear.
Cynthia Brumfield | 05 Dec | Read more
Developers who use Python in open source projects should check they haven't downloaded these two malicious software libraries.
International law enforcement effort kills a spyware tool used by thousands of customers.
Slow progress on encrypting Android app communications, but it's finally picking up pace.
Retailers are well aware that the increasing levels of transactions over the Black Friday-to-Cyber Monday long shopping weekend make them vulnerable to fraud and malware – and the actual levels of compromise will soon become clear in the wake of warnings that online shoppers were being targeted with malicious mobile apps and web sites.
David Braue | 03 Dec | Read more
The ease with which cloud-based architectures facilitate third-party communications will make them a key security risk in coming years, security experts have warned as Australian firms rush headlong into the cloud without fully considering its implications.
By David Braue | 02 Dec | Read more
Greenfields build allowed security to be positioned as a central concern; cloud tools and broad stakeholder buy-in have kept it that way
David Braue | 29 Nov | Read more
Federal agencies face a tight timeline to implement vulnerability disclosure programs. But the government wants to make it easy for the public to report bugs in internet-facing government systems.
Shoppers face a minefield of fraudulent mobile apps and web sites
David Braue | 28 Nov | Read more
Spanish security firm could face large ransom demands from cyber attackers.
Get ready to hear a whole lot more from Google’s Threat Analysis Group, TAG.
An insecure website gives access to attackers on thousands of kids and allows them to connect to kids' watches with the same privileges as parents.
Nation-state players in Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia and Russia are getting new objectives and changing strategies, say experts.
Cynthia Brumfield | 26 Nov | Read more
Yet even where companies have proven their compliance with security best practice, that doesn’t mean they will always continue to be great, as a review of PCI DSS practice confirmed in concerning detail.
David Braue | 25 Nov | Read more
In-depth research on Russia's Sandworm hacking group shows broad capabilities and scope to disrupt anything in any part of the world.
Cynthia Brumfield | 23 Nov | Read more