The shift to working from home has changed the threat landscape, forcing organizations to rethink and revamp their business continuity strategies, says Steve Winterfeld of Akamai, who offers insights on mitigating the risks that come with remote work and ensuring employees can access the resources they need.
U.S. and U.K. cybersecurity agencies issued a joint warning this week that over 62,000 QNAP network-attached storage devices worldwide have been infected with data-stealing malware.
Paul Connelly has been CSO at HCA Healthcare for more than 18 years. But no year has been more trying than this one. What has he learned from the COVID-19 experience and the challenge of accelerating digital transformation amid a pandemic?
Rachael Stephens, program director at the National Governors Association, discusses a new report offering insights into ways that governors and state policymakers can nurture a resilient workforce amid technological disruption that's exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mobile banking startup Dave is just the latest victim of criminal data brokers. Extensive evidence now points to Dave having been hit by a ShinyHunters, which has been tied to the sale of millions of stolen records to fraudsters - either via a phishing attack or hack of a third-party service provider.
Fraudsters are mimicking automated messages from Microsoft SharePoint for a phishing campaign that attempts to steal Office 365 credentials, according to the security firm Abnormal Security.
Social media analytics tools can play a key role in mitigating the risk of brand impersonation fraud, says Barika Pace, senior director analyst at Gartner.
With less than 100 days to go before the U.S. election, intelligence officials are warning of attempted interference by Russia, China and Iran. But Congressional lawmakers are disagreeing about the severity of these threats.
CISA is warning that threat actors are actively exploiting a remote code execution vulnerability in F5's BIG-IP network products that can lead to data exfiltration and other security issues. Earlier, researchers and F5 had urged users to patch the flaw.
Garmin has acknowledged that a hack attack that encrypted several of its systems led to outages that affected several of the company's fitness and aviation products along with knocking its homepage and customer service centers offline. As of Monday, several affected services were again operating.
Federal regulators have slapped the Rhode Island-based health system Lifespan with a $1 million HIPAA settlement tied to a 2017 data breach involving the theft of an unencrypted laptop that potentially exposed the data of 20,000 individuals. It's the largest HIPAA enforcement action so far this year.
Mobile-only banking app Dave has suffered a data breach that exposed personal details for at least 3 million users. But the fintech startup says no account information was exposed, and there are no signs of fraud. Dave says the incident traces to credentials stolen from Waydev, a third-party service provider.
Trend Micro says it has seen increasing attempts to infect home routers for use as proxies and for DDoS attacks. The battle is primarily being fought by three bot families - Mirai, Qbot and Kaiten - that enable low-level fraudsters to hide their activity.
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