As employees travel during the holidays, many will be taking their work along for the journey. The surge in remote work due to the COVID-19 pandemic means that security professionals must remain vigilant this holiday season.
The research from Florida State University and Rutgers University scientists aims to establish a new level of security for voice biometrics and claims that the tech is vulnerable to spoofing.
U.S. law enforcement officials say they were able to recover $2.3 million in bitcoin paid to the threat actors that demanded ransom over the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has placed businesses on notice that payment of ransoms to certain cyberattackers could get a company in trouble under U.S. sanctions laws and regulations for helping to finance sanctioned organizations. Sanctions violations carry significant civil and criminal penalties, as well as reputational and other risks. So how should your company handle ransomware?
The past couple of weeks, K-12 schools were hit hard with ransomware attacks. This week follows a tumultuous fall, full of cyber breaches and ransomware attacks that have hit schools across the U.S. and it has garnered government attention.
Verizon’s 2020 Cyber-Espionage Report (CER) draws from seven years of Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) content, and more than 14 years of Verizon Threat Research Advisory Center (VTRAC) Cyber-Espionage data breach response expertise. The CER serves as a guide for cybersecurity professionals looking to bolster their organization’s cyber defense and posture and incident response (IR) capabilities against cyberattacks.
One type of social engineering attack is the personalized-message, which often ends up in the hands of the CEO or another executive who would have access to sensitive files and information. Until recently, email was the dominant medium by a wide margin. However, recently, attackers have started to move to social media and text messages. What can you do about it?
Estimated at 40% of all internet traffic, bots perform a variety of both critical and criminal operations. The sophistication of emerging bots is creating problems for traditional detection tools.
U.K. businesses have lost over £6.2 million to cyber scams over the past year - with a 31% increase in cases during the height of the pandemic (May-June), new research shows.
New research, The Cybersecurity in the Remote Work Era: A Global Risk Report, dives into the new challenges that organizations face in preventing, detecting and containing cybersecurity attacks in today’s unpredictable environment.
