It’s no secret—hackers are after your passwords. Year after year, credential theft continues to be a top attack vector, yet organizations struggle to secure their credentials. Internal and external users risk being compromised when their passwords are shared, improperly stored, or used across multiple accounts and...
Post-pandemic, in the new era of hybrid work, Mastercard CSO Ron Green says the unintentional insider threat is one of his top concerns for member institutions and their customers. He shares insight on threats, partnerships and how the public and private sectors can address workforce development.
An entire industry has sprung up around running bots and proxies to purchase all of the items made available during a limited release in order to resell them at a profit, depriving fans from direct participation in the sale.
Shopify decided to offer merchants a customizable skill testing challenge question feature,...
One popular bad actor tactic is to generate "low and slow" fake diurnal traffic. Using this tactic, bad actors attempt to evade detection by hiding within legitimate user traffic patterns.
Because today’s fake diurnals blend in with authentic human traffic more
effectively than in the past, solutions must be...
Fastmail's customers utilize its platform specifically to get away from Google's user tracking and privacy invasion practices.
To meet the needs and expectations of its customers, Fastmail wanted to implement a privacy-centric bot management solution to effectively safeguard new account creations, recoveries, and...
Digital identities a – particularly the TLS certificates throughout your organization – are used by
machines to authenticate machine-to-machine communications. But they also protect machines
through consistent, trusted encryption.
When these machine identities fail, organizations experience outages. Even...
As the economy places a greater emphasis on operational continuity, speed, and agility, API security is crucial for digital firms. In 2022, API security violations will be the most common attack method for data breaches in enterprise web apps, predicts Gartner.
The concern of unjustified exposure of the valuable...
An ongoing phishing campaign has compromised Twilio, Mailchimp and about 130 other organizations by using a lookalike Okta login page to trick employees into divulging their password and multi-factor authentication code. Researchers have traced the attacks to a 22-year-old suspect in North Carolina.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to fuel new opportunities for cybercriminals, malicious insiders and other adversaries who are posing new security threats to the privacy of patient health data, says attorney Erik Weinick of law firm Otterbourg P.C.
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report discusses how ransomware groups continue to refine their shakedown tactics and monetization models, highlights from this year's Black Hat conference and why helping those below the "InfoSec poverty line" matters to businesses.
As CISO of West, a Williston Financial Group company, Bruce Phillips recognizes that cybersecurity is not the enterprise's core business. But what, then, is the right level of cybersecurity to bring to a nonsecurity business? He discusses this and other leadership challenges.
Black Hat USA 2022 opened with somber warnings from Chris Krebs about why application developers, vendors and the government need to solve major industry challenges. Key security executives also discussed DNS visibility, cloud security, patch management, APT strategies and supply chain woes.
Cybersecurity doesn’t have competitors, it has adversaries. They react to every defense we put in place and seek new ways to achieve their aims - whether they be cybercrime, espionage, or hacktivism. The attackers are innovative, and they share new ways to exploit any vulnerability, so defenders need to share...
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