Kovrr has released a report that estimates the potential for both large and catastrophic insurance losses to the United States manufacturing industry due to recently discovered industrial IoT vulnerabilities.
Vectra research for its ‘Spotlight Report on Ransomware’ shows that cybercriminals’ most effective weapon in a ransomware attack is the network itself, which enables the malicious encryption of shared files on network servers, especially files stored in infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud providers.
NETSCOUT has published its Threat Intelligence Report for the first half of 2019. The report underscores how dramatically the cyber criminal business model has matured into an efficient, global operation and the increasing geographical diversity and proliferation of nation-state advance persistent threats (APT) groups.
Kaspersky researchers detected 16,017 new ransomware modifications in Q2 2019 – including ones belonging to eight new malware families. This is more than double the number of new samples detected a year ago, in Q2 2018 (7,620).
Small-scale Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are becoming more frequent and sophisticated, according to new research from Neustar’s Security Operations Centre (SOC).
Exabeam and the Ponemon Institute, have published research results which reveal that on average, security personnel in US enterprises waste approximately 25 percent of their time chasing false positives because security alerts or indicators of compromise (IOCs) are erroneous.
A new survey-based study from Exabeam showed that 68 percent of respondents find that red team exercises are more effective than blue team testing, and more companies are practicing red over blue team testing.
A lack of resources is the single biggest challenge for IT security, followed by a lack of experience and skills, according to ‘The Security Profession in 2018/19’ report from the Chartered Institute of Information Security.
The financial services industry is a key target for cyber attacks, yet given the size and complexity of the organizations involved in this sector it is often difficult to manage security. Automation is an emerging tool which can help says Nick Lowe.
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