Although the wave of WannaCry and Petya ransomware has now been slowed down, money-motivated hackers and cyber criminals have taken lessons from the global outbreaks to make their malware more powerful. Security researchers have now discovered at least one group of cyber criminals that are attempting to give its banking Trojan the self-spreading worm-like capabilities that made recent ransomware attacks go worldwide. The new version of credential stealing TrickBot banking Trojan, known as "...
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Security keys are an effective way to keep your accounts secure from hackers, but they suffer from a major challenge: They're inconvenient. Not a lot of people want to buy and carry an extra key or Bluetooth fob just for logging in -- which is why most two-factor authentication is done through text messages, even though it's less secure. Up to 90% of Gmail users don't even use 2FA, a Google software engineer revealed in 2018. Convenience is a big hurdle, and Google is hoping to solve...
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Forrester, one of the world’s most influential market research and advisory firms, informed customers late on Friday that its main website had been breached. According to Forrester Chief Business Technology Officer Steven Peltzman, a hacker accessed information provided to customers through the company’s website, Forrester.com, using stolen credentials....
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“Even if this type of action were to become legal, most organizations are too optimistic about their abilities to target the correct intruder.” At the recent RAS Conference in San Francisco several discussions took place around the topic of cyberattacks from nation state actors, a survey conducted at the conference found that 87 percent of security professionals believe the world is currently in the midst of a cyber war. This is according to Utah-based cybersecurity company Venafi wh...
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His scenario of 50 billion listening, waiting and connected devices by 2020 offers opportunities for operators, enterprises and consumers alike (the latter contingent well-represented at CES via comedienne Sarah Silverman, who joined Chambers onstage) – but it also opens up a much larger, vaster attack surface for cybercriminals...
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A survey of nearly 200 financial services compliance individuals conducted throughout February and March 2018 found that organizations are struggling to keep pace with evolving technologies and have fallen behind when it comes to oversight of electronic communications, according to Smarsh. Results of the 40-question survey were released this week in the Electronic Communications Compliance Survey Report. The survey looked at current trends in policies and practices with the usage, retention and ...
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