Although they apparently weren't caused by cyber-attacks, the impacts of computer failures at the New York Stock Exchange, United Airlines and the Wall Street Journal have much in common with the aftermath of breaches.
Tools to build and manage the ZeusVM banking Trojan have been leaked online, meaning that both die-hard and would-be criminals alike can now try their hand at running botnets, for free.
Warning: All versions of Flash Player are vulnerable to a zero-day, weaponized exploit that became public when Italian spyware vendor Hacking Team was hacked, and 400 GB of corporate data leaked. Adobe has released an update to patch the flaw.
OpenDNS's Andrew Hay sees danger confronting many enterprises in the era of the "Internet of Things" as Internet-ready consumer devices, not architected for security, find their way onto corporate networks, often unbeknown to administrators.
Soon, ongoing and persistent attacks waged for cyber-espionage and the compromise of personal and corporate information will be primary concerns for the financial services industry.
MasterCard is testing a smartphone app that lets users approve online transactions using facial recognition, via the equivalent of taking a selfie. But could such technology be spoofed, and will it reduce card fraud?
The St. Louis Cardinals baseball team has fired its scouting director amidst allegations that the team hacked into a database run by its rival Houston Astros team. A related investigation is ongoing.
An unconfirmed post-breach report for bitcoin exchange Bitstamp shows the organization was targeted by a sustained attack that combined phishing via email and Skype with macro malware to successfully steal almost 19,000 bitcoins, worth $5 million.
Cisco announced plans to pay $635 million to purchase cloud security firm OpenDNS to better secure the "Internet of Everything." OpenDNS says the acquisition will leave its products and personnel intact.
The PCI Security Standards Council has just released version 2 of its point-to-point encryption standard. Jeremy King of the PCI SSC explains how this optional standard can complement PCI-DSS compliance.
Wary of intrusions, data compromise and theft, organizations increasingly are deploying privileged access management solutions. Idan Shoham of Hitachi ID Systems offers the essential do's and don'ts.
Adoption of the financial services top-level domain ".bank" will provide enhanced email authentication capabilities, three experts explain in part two of a panel discussion on the new TLD.
European authorities say they have disrupted a Ukraine-based cybercrime gang tied to $2.2 million in fraud in Europe, the United States and beyond, perpetrated via banking Trojans, botnets and hacking-for-hire services.
A growing number of ATM card reader eavesdropping attacks involve attackers getting in through a tried-and-true method - taking advantage of commonly used electronic access keys or codes. What can be done to stop these attacks?
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