Police in Nigeria this week arrested a 37-year-old man who's been charged with masterminding "a criminal syndicate tied to massive business email compromise and phishing campaigns," Interpol reports. But with known BEC losses last year exceeding $2.4 billion, will the arrest have a noticeable impact?
Since at least the middle of last year, online attackers have been increasingly targeting the financial services sector.
So warns John Fokker, principal engineer and head of cyber investigations for the Advanced Threat Research group at cybersecurity firm Trellix. He says Trellix's latest threat assessment found a...
Across industrial sectors, limited asset visibility, reliance on manual processes and siloed data are three common factors that make it hard to effectively protect OT operations and streamline IT and OT vulnerability management & response.
In this live webinar, you'll get guidance from subject matter experts on...
Tenable has agreed to purchase startup Bit Discovery for $44.5 million to help companies discover, attribute and monitor assets on the internet. The deal will allow Tenable to identify vulnerable internet-facing assets that could be attacked.
Fresh warnings are being sounded about the threat posed by semi-autonomous killing machines both on and above the battlefield, especially as lethal weapons continue to gain features that push them toward full autonomy. Experts say international norms and legal safeguards are overdue.
As a security leader, you know that the way to align your vulnerability management program to support the business is to mitigate the vulnerabilities that have the biggest business impact. But that’s easier said than done. How do you discover and rate each vulnerability? How do you remediate them without disrupting...
In the wake of the great digital transformation, cybersecurity is more
important than ever and it's certainly drawing the board's attention.
But how does a security leader keep that attention and also
win over other key stakeholders in the enterprise all while ensuring that cyber maturity and quantifying risk is...
Keeping up with myriad data privacy and information security regulations has never been easy. Security mandates are complicated and constantly evolving. Adding to the complexity: organizations often face deadlines to meet compliance objectives – and fast.
Across industries and regions, compliance frameworks...
Online attackers are increasingly targeting the financial services sector. John Fokker, head of cyber investigations at Trellix, says his firm has charted a 22% quarterly increase in ransomware attacks on financial services, and APT detections have risen by 37%. Here's how the industry must respond.
If Russia uses hack attacks to support its invasion, would Western governments want to immediately attribute those attacks or disruptions? Enter a Thursday alert from the U.S. government warning that it is "aware of possible threats to U.S. and international satellite communication networks."
Sri Lanka-based Sujit Christy, group CISO at John Keells Holdings PLC, says his passion is empowering security practitioners with the right skills and knowledge and ensuring they speak the right language. He discusses cybersecurity adoption and enablement.
With our award winning, patented technology and proven expertise, CyberArk is the only company that can provide full protection from advanced and insider threats to mitigate your risks and meet high stakes compliance requirements. CyberArk has more deployments in large-scale distributed and virtual environments,...
Globalised supply chains and accelerated digitalisation has introduced more interconnected business environments, with a greater dependency by participants on third parties to operate critical processes and deliver goods and services to their customers.
The prevalence of such tightly knit service providers into an...
Insider risk and data loss prevention (DLP) are a top concern for organisations today. And it makes sense, with a distributed workforce and increasing reliance on technology, legacy, on-prem DLP technology hasn’t lived up to its promises.
That’s because data loss begins with people, whether careless, compromised...
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