Protecting domain name systems finally has the attention of cybersecurity professionals -because every recent large data breach has involved a DNS vulnerability. But there is much work to be done. According to Ihab Shraim, chief technical officer at Corporation Services Company, just 1 in 100 security companies knows...
Scammers are stealing hotels' log-in credentials for online travel site Booking.com and targeting their customers, experts warn. In many cases, attackers use Booking's own messaging system to contact customers and request their payment card data, they say.
British prosecutors have sentenced a teenager behind high-profile hacks while he was part of the now-inactive Lapsus$ hacking group. Arion Kurtaj, from Oxford, will remain in medical care after doctors declared he was unfit to stand for trial owing to severe autism.
The DFIR landscape is constantly evolving, driven by technological advancements and new cyberthreats. "Tsurugi," developed by Giovanni Rattaro, senior cybersecurity expert, and Marco Giorgi, senior DFIR analyst, is an open-source Linux distribution project designed for blue teams.
Cisco announced plans to acquire another cloud security startup as part of a series of recent acquisitions and investments in the company’s multi-cloud networking capabilities and security offerings, including the major $28 billion acquisition of Splunk.
Automating decision-making in the security operations center strengthens an organization's ability to detect, respond to and mitigate security threats effectively. But the focus has shifted from micro-automation to a unified platform, according to Michael Lyborg, CISO of Swimlane.
Comcast says attackers stole personal information pertaining to 35.9 million customers of its Xfinity-branded TV, internet and home telephone services in an October attack that targeted a vulnerability - dubbed Citrix Bleed - present in NetScaler and Citrix networking equipment.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency maintains an exhaustive list that the U.S. cyber agency describes as "the authoritative source of vulnerabilities that have been exploited in the wild," but a new report says it has failed to identify nearly 100 high-risk vulnerabilities in 2023.
An Iowa medical center is among the latest healthcare entities reporting to federal regulators a breach tied to a data theft hack on medical transcription vendor Perry Johnson and Associates earlier this year. Meanwhile, stacks of federal lawsuits continue to pile up against the Nevada firm.
A late October hacking incident at mortgage lender Mr. Cooper affected 14.7 million individuals, the Texas company disclosed Friday. The incident triggered a four-day shutdown of corporate systems and a suspension in lending. Hackers gained access on Oct. 30 and were ejected on Nov. 1.
To help organizations refine their use of cryptography and safer software and to smooth their adoption of quantum-resistant cryptography, a team of researchers has released tools that generate a cryptographic bill of materials, or CBOM, says long-time security researcher Daniel Cuthbert.
The Idaho National Laboratory said hackers stole personal data of more than 45,000 individuals connected with the facility following a self-proclaimed hacktivist group's claims of a breach. The data theft stems from a Nov. 20 incident affecting the organization's off-site Oracle HCM HR system.
Watch now former Gartner Analyst and Advisor Tom Croll for an in-depth exploration of shared responsibility, where he'll delve into critical topics such as Mastering cloud configuration, encompassing identity and permissions to visibility and monitoring
This week, French police arrested an alleged Hive "banker," Amazon cracked down on a refund fraud ring, Ukraine military intelligence said it hacked the Russian tax system, the U.K. Ministry of Defense was fined and Kraft Heinz said it is doing fine after an alleged ransomware attack.
A recently spotted hacking group with a penchant for using open-source tools has been using a less-than-novel tactic: exploiting SQL injection flaws. So warn researchers who recently detected attacks by the group, which has the codename GambleForce and appears to focus on gambling and retail firms.
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