The Justice Department announces that four alleged members of an international hacking ring have been charged with stealing intellectual property valued at $100 million, including a U.S. Army Apache helicopter simulator and Microsoft Xbox prototypes.
In the wake of this week's news that a second point-of-sale breach has struck grocery chain Supervalu, experts warn many more retailers are likely to suffer a similar fate. Find out why.
Banking institutions must mitigate all Shellshock vulnerabilities in their internal and customer-facing banking systems. Experts recommend beginning with automated and manual Bash-bug scanning, as well as educating customers about the risks.
The automated version of the IT risk management and governance framework should save project leaders 30 to 60 hours of work over a manual process of building a secure IT system, ISACA President Robert Stroud says.
As the workforce increasingly relies on mobile devices, corporate privacy and security policies aren't keeping pace. And that's leaving a large gap in organizations' breach prevention strategies.
When the new Apple Pay mobile payment system launches in October in the United States, it could help improve payment security. This infographic reviews the system's features and how to put them to use.
More than 1.5 million DDoS attacks daily are targeting the Bash bug flaws known as Shellshock. Researchers have now discovered a total of four Shellshock vulnerabilities and warn that more may follow.
In a wide-ranging interview, the acclaimed expert on cybersecurity strategy addresses the cyberthreat posed by ISIS and explains why Congress is unlikely to enact significant cybersecurity legislation this year.
As news of the Shellshock bug continues to spread, CISOs in all sectors are taking steps to mitigate the risks posed by the vulnerability. Likewise, regulators and industry groups have ramped up dissemination of alerts.
Attackers have exploited the Shellshock vulnerability - a.k.a. Bash bug - to infect at least 700 Linux systems with malware that includes the ability to launch DDoS attacks. Users of Unix systems are vulnerable.
Leading this week's industry news roundup, IBM opens a new cloud resiliency center to provide business continuity capabilities, and Gemalto launches a solution to enable secure eBanking applications on PCs.
To mitigate the newly discovered Bash bug - AKA Shellshock - which may make millions of systems vulnerable to remote takeover, organizations must take several key steps, says security expert Alan Woodward.
The social media savvy Islamic State frightens most of the world with its gruesome Internet postings of executions and online recruitment of new Jihadists. But is the terrorist group likely to launch cyber-attacks?
Security experts are warning that millions of systems - Apache servers, Linux and Mac systems, and innumerable Internet of Things devices - may be vulnerable to a flaw in Unix that attackers are already using to gain shell access.
Financial institutions are starting to report fraud tied to the massive Home Depot payment card data breach. One card issuer calls the fraud ramp up "much greater than what we saw from Target, Michaels and Neiman Marcus."
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