Business travelers are some of the most at-risk victims of cyberattacks, but don’t seem to realize it, according to an IBM Security report conducted by Morning Consult. The transportation industry has become the second-most attacked industry, and since January 2018, some 566 million records have been either leaked or compromised in the travel industry, the ...
The total number of security vulnerabilities reported increased 92% over the last year, according to Bugcrowd’s report Priority One: The State of Crowdsourced Security in 2019. The top five vulnerabilities discovered by security researchers were broken access control, sensitive data exposure, server security misconfiguration, broken authentication and session management, and cross-site scripting—most of which are ...
A Zero Day vulnerability in the Mac Zoom Client allows any malicious website to enable the machine’s camera without the user’s permission, potentially impacting the 700,000+ companies worldwide using Zoom for video conferencing each day, security researcher Jonathan Leitschuh disclosed in a post on Medium. The vulnerability leverages Zoom’s feature of allowing users to share ...
Nobody is safe from online threats–not even IT professionals. I was recently subjected to being impersonated online which, while unpleasant, was also educational. Online impersonation isn’t the same thing as having your social media account hacked and commandeered; it involves a malicious individual setting up a wholly different account similar to your name and with ...
Using the cloud to host your business’s data, applications, and other assets offers several benefits in terms of management, access, and scalability. But the cloud also presents certain security risks. Traditionally, those risks have centered on areas such as denial of service, data loss, malware, and system vulnerabilities. A report released Tuesday by the Cloud ...
Passwords are not yet past, but that glorious future land where we don’t have to remember h0rs3##pl7 is getting closer. Microsoft is allowing logins without passwords. Google is allowing logins without passwords. These are secure logins–sometimes more secure than just a user ID and password. Just as a sample, check out these five alternatives to ...
When you get tricked by a phishing mail and open a document attachment that has a malicious macro or a link to a malicious site, or you download an infected application, there’s a file that antivirus software can scan as it’s saved to or opened from disk, and there’s a trail of file activity that ...
Dan Patterson, CNET and CBS News Senior Producer, and Graham Kates, CBS Investigative Reporter, volunteered to have their information hacked for research purposes. For three weeks, Stephanie “Snow” Carruthers, who is a Global Social Engineering Expert on IBM’s X-Force Red team, hacked Patterson and Kates. Earlier this year, all three of them sat down in ...
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Denial of service (DoS) attacks are the cyberweapon of choice for state-sponsored threat actors and freewheeling script kiddies alike. Independent of who uses them, denial of service attacks can be particularly disruptive and damaging for organizations targeted by cybercriminals. Since 2018, the frequency and power of DDoS attacks have been increasing, making them a more ...
A decade of apparent indifference for data privacy at Facebook has culminated in revelations that organizations harvested user data for targeted advertising, particularly political advertising, to apparent success. While the most well-known offender is Cambridge Analytica–the political consulting and strategic communication firm behind the pro-Brexit Leave EU campaign, as well as Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential ...
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As cybercriminals grow more sophisticated and news of major breaches reach headlines nearly daily, cybersecurity professionals are in high demand: There are currently nearly 3 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs worldwide, ISC(2) found. Employees who take on these roles play a key role in the enterprise, as the average cost of a data breach worldwide is ...
Frank Abagnale’s unbelievable life story was made famous in Steven Spielberg’s hit movie, Catch Me If You Can starring Leonardo DiCaprio. His life as a con man began when he impersonated an airline pilot. TechRepublic’s Karen Roby got the chance to sit down with Frank Abagnale, the famous con man turned FBI instructor, to talk ...
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