Officials in Jackson County, Georgia, along with the FBI are investigating a ransomware attack that crippled IT systems over a two-week period and reportedly led local officials to pay a bitcoin ransom worth $400,000 to restore systems and infrastructure.
Citrix Systems is investigating a suspected hack attack, resulting in the theft of business documents, after being tipped off by the FBI. The breach alert follows Citrix recently disclosing that in late 2018, hackers breached some of its customers' accounts via credential-stuffing attacks.
Although organizations need to worry about phishing, malware and other inbound threats, they also must be aware that social media accounts pose an increasing risk - and they need to be monitored and locked down, says Otavio Freire of SafeGuard Cyber.
Malicious and accidental insiders alike have drawn renewed attention to the insider threat. Patrick Knight of Veriato offers new insight on the scale of the problem and how to tackle it.
Small and midsize organizations are no less vulnerable to cyberattacks than large enterprises. Dan Smith of Zeguro outlines an approach for these organizations that fuses cybersecurity with insurance.
The faces of digital fraud have changed dramatically over the past decade, and so too must our strategies for fighting it. Ricardo Villadiego of Cyxtera urges anti-fraud leaders to focus and simplify.
While mega data breaches gain the most attention, the long tail of smaller breaches is largely ignored. Monica Pal of 4iQ shares findings on recent breach trends.
Speaking at the RSA Conference 2019, FBI Director Christopher Wray noted that when he took on the job two years ago, he was "shocked" by China's growing counterintelligence capabilities.
Four business sectors - hospitals, banks, securities firms and market infrastructure providers - potentially face the most significant financial impact from cyberattacks that could lead to a weakened credit profile, according to a new report from Moody's Investors Service.
Identity and access management is more complicated when organizations rely on a cloud infrastructure, says Brandon Swafford, CISO at Waterbury, Connecticut-based Webster Bank, who describes the challenges in an interview.
Facebook is edging closer to launching its own cryptocurrency, with a rollout expected this year, The New York Times reports. But some critics argue that the project seems more like a trendy and unnecessary redressing of a PayPal-like system with a blockchain.
Guarding against threats targeting end users is among the top security priorities this year at a large group of surgical centers in Washington state - and artificial intelligence could play an important role, says CIO Curt Kwak of Proliance Surgeons.
Michael Cohen, former personal attorney for President Trump, told a Congressional committee Wednesday morning that the president was aware his longtime associate, Roger Stone, was in communication with Julian Assange of WikiLeaks about plans to dump a collection of hacked Democratic National Committee emails.
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