About 210 websites of central and state government departments in India were displaying personal details and Aadhaar numbers of beneficiaries. Security experts are questioning why auditors did not detect problems that led to the data leakage and say it's time to take strong action against faulty auditors.
Hollywood loves to portray hackers as wunderkinds with such exceptional cybercrime mojo that they can hack or crack anything. But as the AlphaBay takedown demonstrates, a simple mistake - reusing a Hotmail address - led to the administrator's arrest and the site's downfall.
A deep dive into the takedowns of AlphaBay and Hansa, and their impact on the secretive illicit darknet marketplace, leads the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also, a puzzling breach at Ricoh Australia.
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The FBI and Europol announced that they've jointly shuttered the world's two biggest darknet marketplaces, AlphaBay and Hansa, which were responsible for more than 10 times the volume of sales as the notorious Silk Road marketplace.
Millions of connected devices already have been potentially compromised - inside and outside of the enterprise. Phil Marshall of Tolaga Research is concerned about when and how attackers will take advantage of these in the next big IoT strike.
AusCERT is one of the oldest CERT's in the world, and Phil Cole says the independent organization is now laser-focused on helping enterprises across sectors to fundamentally improve their strategies and solutions for incident response.
Two Iranian nationals remain at large after being charged by the U.S. Department of Justice with hacking into a Vermont-based engineering firm and stealing software used to develop projectiles, ranging from bullets to GPS-guided artillery shells and missiles.
Applying data science to detect anomalous behaviour is playing a bigger role in securing enterprises, says Sumeet Mathur, vice president at CA Technologies.
Fighting a well-established cyber underground churning out increasingly complex malware requires that defenders change tactics to make it far more difficult for attackers to succeed, says Sajan Paul of Juniper Networks.
The threat intelligence market is muddled by confusing messaging that has hurt security and risk (S&R) pros' ability to succeed with their intelligence capabilities.
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Dow Jones is blaming user error for an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket misconfiguration that exposed data on about 2.2 million customers. In recent months, Verizon, WWE, Scottrade and a data analytics firm aligned with the Republican Party have been similarly caught out.
An investigation into a single IP security camera has unfolded into yet another worrying finding in the land of the internet of things. Millions of IoT devices may have a remotely executable buffer overflow in an open-source code component, according to cybersecurity company Senrio.
Malware attacks are increasing, including ransomware like CryptoLocker, Locky, and zCrypt.
Businesses know it's essential to protect PCs from malicious programs, but many don't realize the value of server-level protection until the damage is done. Server-level protection from viruses and malware is essential, and...
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