Effective Data Security Begins With a Strong Tech Foundation
Data is the engine of the modern economy. Whether it consists of customer data, intellectual property, market insights or financial information, these types of sensitive data enable the most successful businesses to thrive. It’s no surprise, then, that securing...
Zeus Sphinx Trojan Awakens Amidst Coronavirus Spam Frenzy
The recent months have created a new reality in the world as the novel Coronavirus pandemic spread from country to country raising concerns among people everywhere. With spammers and malware distributors already being accustomed to riding trending news, the...
Why Adversarial Examples Are Such a Dangerous Threat to Deep Learning
Technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and neural networks are driven by deep learning — machine learning algorithms that get “smarter” with more data. The deepfake, a severe cybersecurity threat, wouldn’t be possible without deep learning.
Deepfakes aside, we need to...
Recalibrate Insider Threat Controls When Your Employees Are Off the Corporate Network
In recent years, remote work has become a growing trend. In 2018, however, only 3.6 percent of Americans worked entirely remotely. Due to changes in the global climate, many employers have shifted their workforces to remote work if their...
Do You Know Your Responsibilities When It Comes to Container Security?
As you migrate your enterprise to the public cloud or multicloud, you want to realize some of its inherent benefits regardless of what service model you utilize. Whether your goal is cost optimization, scalability or elasticity, the cloud can...
TrickBot Pushing a 2FA Bypass App to Bank Customers in Germany
IBM X-Force researchers recently analyzed an Android malware app that’s likely being pushed to infected users by the TrickBot Trojan. This app, dubbed “TrickMo” by our team, is designed to bypass strong authentication methods that bank customers use when...
Extend Your Security Team, Quickly Add Expertise and Help Secure Your Remote Workforce
Organizations around the world are adapting to respond to the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and companies may experience increased stress and challenges across their security programs arising from increased remote user demand, site availability impacts, stringent travel...
Crypto-Risk: Your Data Security Blind Spot
For many years — almost since the beginning of secure internet communications — data security professionals have had to face the challenge of using certificates, the mechanism that forms the basis of Transport Layer Security (TLS) communications. Certificates facilitate...
7 Spring Cleaning Tasks to Improve Data Security
This year, March 19 ushered in spring in the Northern Hemisphere — the first time since 1896 that the season has started so early. So why not take advantage of the season’s early arrival to do some spring cleaning,...
4 Principles That Should Define Your Evolving Security Operations Model
I recently had the opportunity to speak at a security conference where I presented the operating models that an organization can embrace when managing cyberthreats and the guiding principles associated with them. It was a great chance to share...
How CIAM Addresses the Challenges of Consumer Identity Management
Consumer identities are at the heart of brand engagements today. Digital interactions are a routine part of our lives and touchpoints for consumers have reached astounding heights. Nearly 60 percent of the world is digitally connected and more than...
9 Best Practices from X-Force Red for Organizations and Employees
As employers rapidly respond to the need to protect their workforce from potential exposure and spread of the novel coronavirus and the disease known as COVID-19, many of your organizations are making the very difficult decision to pivot to...
How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Remote Work
The industry is in the midst of a transformation. In this case, it isn’t the omnipresent digital transformation but rather a sudden tectonic shift towards remote work. For many organizations built on the classic, communal office space, this can...
Using Mystery Novel Techniques to Track Down Cyberthreats
How good are your sleuthing skills? Do you savor Agatha Christie novels and figure out who did it before the big reveal? If so, the skills you use to read a good detective novel may also help you discover...
Palantir, The $20 Billion, Peter Thiel-Backed Big Data Giant, Is Providing A Coronavirus Monitoring Tool To The CDC
Palantir will help the Centers for Disease Control keep on top of ventilator and mask needs to treat coronavirus victims, sources say.
Defense Evasion Dominated 2019 Attack Tactics
Researchers mapped tactics and techniques to the MITRE ATT&CK framework to determine which were most popular last year.
Watering-Holes Target Asian Ethnic Victims with Flash Update Decoy
About 10 compromised websites employ a multi-stage, targeted effort to fingerprint and compromise victims.
OpenWRT is vulnerable to attacks that execute malicious code
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For almost three years, OpenWRT—the open source operating system that powers home routers and other types of embedded systems—has been vulnerable to remote code-execution attacks because updates were delivered over an unencrypted channel and digital...
Privacy in critical care after telehealth demands jump
As coughs and body aches drive anxious Americans to telemed services in record numbers, relieving the burden on medical facilities stressed to breaking with COVID-19 cases, the subsequent relaxation of privacy requirements puts them at risk of PHI compromises,...
