Mirai, the ever-morphing malware behind devastating DDoS attacks, has also disrupted two U.K. broadband providers. The malware's framework is becoming a platform for attacks against IoT devices.
Law enforcement officials in the U.S., Europe and Asia say they've dismantled a resilient network used by cybercriminals to infect tens of millions of computers with malicious software.
Because so many major data breaches involve using compromised privileged credentials, organizations must ramp up their credential management efforts, says Gerrit Lansing of CyberArk.
Encrypting healthcare data is a no-brainer, right? It keeps your organization off the Wall of Shame in the event of a breach, and it's just the right thing to do. So, why are so many healthcare entities still failing to encrypt?
Upgrading endpoint protection is an important step toward mitigating the risk of sophisticated ransomware and other malware attacks, says George Kaminski of Palo Alto Networks.
Deutsche Telekom says 900,000 customers were unable to access the internet after their routers were infected with malware. Researchers say it's a modified version of Mirai - code for building an internet-of-things botnet.
Facebook says it hasn't seen ransomware spreading through its Messenger instant messaging platform despite recent reports from researchers saying that the file-encrypting Locky may have slipped through.
Local police are investigating ATM skimming attacks at four New York hospitals. Security experts warn that fraudsters will likely continue to target locations, including hospitals, where ATMs are not closely monitored and around-the-clock access to the terminals is available.
As more organizations take advantage of cloud computing, it's essential that they set precise security expectations with their vendor partners, Carson Sweet of CloudPassage says in this video interview.
A ransomware attack against San Francisco's Muni public transportation network attack over the busy Thanksgiving holiday - and Black Friday shopping - weekend left more than 2,000 fare-handling systems locked, leading officials to let people ride for free.
The U.S. Navy is set to begin notifying more than 130,000 current and former sailors that their personal information was "accessed by unknown individuals" after a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services employee lost a laptop.
After the recent compromise of 3.2 million debit cards details in India, Ravi Shankar Prasad, minister of IT and law, is calling for more organizations to have a third-party security audit and hire a CISO.
IBM will pay an unspecified amount to the Australian government for the vendor's role in the technical problems related to the recent online census, which dented public confidence in large-scale IT projects.
A lack of incident response planning often leads to an unanticipated series of serious consequences for organizations that experience data breaches, Joey Johnson, CISO of Premise Health, says in this video interview.
A group of respected computer scientists has caused a stir by calling for an audit of U.S. presidential election results in three states, to disprove that hackers somehow altered the results.
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