Déjà vu basic cybersecurity challenge all over again: With the U.S. government warning that geopolitical tensions could trigger wiper-attack reprisals, security experts review the basic anti-wiper - and anti-ransomware - defenses organizations should already have in place.
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report assesses the legacy of WannaCry ransomware two years on. Also featured: the evolving role of healthcare CISOs; threat mitigation recommendations based on the 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.
Criminal gangs have been hitting e-commerce sites hard lately by injecting their malicious code to "skim" customers' payment card details. In a recent twist, Malwarebytes spotted a malicious iFrame that steps in front of the normal payment process to intercept card details.
At this week's Information Security Media Group Fraud & Breach Summit in Bengaluru, India, national cybersecurity coordinator Lt. Gen. (retired) Rajesh Pant spoke about the challenges facing the country over the coming years.
C-level executives are 12 times more likely to be the target of social incidents and nine times more likely to be the target of social breaches. This is among the key findings of the latest Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report. Author John Grim shares insight.
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Check Point Research has spotlighted attacks against several embassies that show how subtle changes in source code can alter how security professionals can detect and stop different types of malware.
Latha Reddy, India's former deputy national security adviser, says the nation should designate election infrastructure as "critical information infrastructure" to help ensure that cybersecurity is a much higher priority. She also spells out other critical steps.
In recent days, two major companies -Wipro and JustDial - did a poor job of communicating following data leaks. This points to the need for a strong breach notification law in India.
Among the top new spear phishing threats to enterprises: Extortion. Asaf Cidon of Barracuda outlines the top three spear phishing threats and new strategies to defend against them.
The discovery of an apparent data breach at Indian IT service firm Wipro could hurt the firm's reputation, as well as the reputation of other outsourcing companies, some observers say.
Indian IT service firm Wipro on Tuesday said that it has detected abnormal activities on some of its employee accounts due to an advanced phishing campaign. An investigation is continuing, the company confirms.
Microsoft says intruders targeting its email services had access to email content for a single-digit percentage of the overall affected accounts, a more serious conclusion than first thought. But the company hasn't released many details, including the total number of accounts affected.
Phishing remains one of the most significant attack vectors, and security automation, orchestration and response, or SOAR, can help minimize the threat, says Myke Lyons of ServiceNow.
When a company plans to make an acquisition, it should conduct a "compromise assessment" to assess whether the organization being purchased has had an undiscovered breach, says Steve Ledzian, CTO for Asia Pacific at FireEye.
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