NATO and Symantec have signed an information sharing agreement which will see both parties exchange threat intelligence to build resilience to cyber attacks. The agreement, signed within the framework of the NATO Industry Cyber Partnership (NICP), will see information flow two ways between the security giant and the NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency. According to NATO, effective info sharing on threats can be the best way to improve resilience and incident handling and mitigate vu...
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Ransomware families that belong to Ryuk and Sodinokibi are responsible for the huge rise in the ransom payments.In Q4 of 2019, 98% of companies had received a working decryptor tool for the ransom paid.With the increase in ransomware attacks, the average ransom payment has risen to 104% in the fourth quarter of 2019. A report from Coveware reveals that the ransomware attackers had collected an average of around $84,000 from victim organizations in the Q4 of 2019 when compared to $41,198 in Q3 of...
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A massive malvertising attack is striking adult content portals, including top porn domain xHamster.com which has close to half a billion monthly visitors....
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Hundreds of companies are incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into their technologies to predict, prevent and defeat the next major cyber attack. At RSA last month IBM joined the pack, announcing Watson for Cyber Security and demonstrating the huge potential for artificial intelligence to support the infosec community....
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We reached out to our security experts to see what they thought 2017 would bring us in the cybersecurity space, and narrowed it down to nine solid predictions. Read on for the list. #1. The Internet of Things (IoT) will come under government cyber security scrutiny and require manufacturers to tighten security Ongoing threats related to IoT devices will force manufacturers to tighten security layers, including patchable firmware/software, secured authentication, and controlled privilege access. ...
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Kaspersky Safe Browser for Windows Phone blocks links to content that may be harmful. The application receives information about malicious sites in real time from the anti-phishing database in the cloud-based Kaspersky Security Network. This allows the application to block even those phishing pages that have only recently appeared on the internet, the company said.
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