No matter how much an organisation spends on technical defences against threats to information security, it can be undone by one employee making a careless decision. So why aren’t organisations focussing more effort on securing humans?
Persistent shortcomings in corporate information-security policy continue to compromise security efforts by exposing organisations to human error and the ever more-clever depredations of ransomware and other malware authors, peak security group CompTIA has warned on the back of new research showing that just 54 percent of surveyed companies offer their employees any form of cybersecurity training.
David Braue | 01 Apr | Read more
Cyber criminals are always looking for vulnerabilities, and in this case, it's parental instinct. A new phishing scam is disguised as an alert to child sexual predators.
Tony Bradley | 07 Feb | Read more
Ransomware authors are increasingly focusing on customer service in an attempt to improve the efficacy of attacks, security analysts have warned as a new version of CryptoWall malware appeared and Australian researchers warned that carefully-crafted localised ransomware is increasingly hitting its mark.
David Braue | 16 Jan | Read more
A new strain of ransomware, OphionLocker, generates a unique hardware identifier for each new infected machine so that it can avoid hitting the same victim twice, according to new research from KnowBe4, a Florida-based security awareness training firm.
Maria Korolov | 18 Dec | Read more