Mobile applications are fraught with their own unique security challenges and threats that can put both organizations and their users in jeopardy. The challenges of balancing user demands for simplicity with an increasingly complex mobile ecosystem means developers have to adapt fast.
Download this guide and learn...
Many organizations are undergoing a transformation to support digital platforms and stay competitive; but in order to maintain security, they have to ensure that access to these platforms is limited and that security remains a priority. New vulnerabilities to cybercrime are being introduced through hybrid...
As data continues to grow and become increasingly regulated, organizations will need an enterprise-wide security strategy that's holistic, covering users as well as data, while also improving their compliance posture. It's easy to think of the mainframe as just another platform in the data center, until you stop and...
Another day, another data breach in the news. Ransomware at a hospital, the latest IRS breach, a phishing scam at Snapchat . . . you tune out the details. For every breach that makes headlines, dozens of other organizations have had data stolen or corrupted by hackers...or even their own users. Cyberthreats become...
Businesses around the world are seeing an increase in malware attacks, including ransomware like CryptoLocker, Locky, and zCrypt. These attacks can result in weeks of downtime, and some of the most damaging data breaches originated with malware, including the Target breach in 2014.
A robust malware defense could...
Warning: Drop everything and patch all the Windows things now. That's the alert being sounded by security researchers in the wake of attackers adopting Equation Group attack tools designed to exploit an SMB flaw and install DoublePulsar backdoor.
Leading the latest version of the ISMG Security Report: A tale of how a dedicated manager spent her weekends monitoring video of ATMs led to the capture of a criminal skimmer. Also, the growing sophistication of cybercriminals.
The recent fix for a zero-day flaw in Microsoft Office appeared more than five months after Microsoft was privately alerted to the flaw, and followed months of it being exploited via in-the-wild attacks. Can Microsoft do better?
Many organizations are undergoing a transformation to support digital platforms and stay competitive; but in order to maintain security, they have to ensure that access to these platforms is limited and that security remains a priority. New vulnerabilities to cybercrime are being introduced through hybrid...
Today's enterprises support an assortment of end-user devices, including laptops and desktops (both PCs and Macs), tablets and hybrid devices, and, of course, smartphones. Not only do employees
use a variety of form factors, but they run a variety of platforms on those devices, including:
Apple iOS and Apple...
Many organizations are undergoing a transformation to support digital platforms and stay competitive; but in order to maintain security, they have to ensure that access to these platforms is limited and that security remains a priority. New vulnerabilities to cybercrime are being introduced through hybrid...
WikiLeaks has released a second batch of CIA attack tools, dubbed Dark Matter, which includes malware designed to exploit Mac OS X and iOS devices. But Apple contends the attacks target vulnerabilities in its software that have long been patched, so users are not at risk.
McDonald's home food delivery app in India leaked sensitive personal information relating to 2.2 million users. But the restaurant giant only addressed the insecure API after a researcher went public one month after informing McDonald's about the problem.
Canadian authorities narrowly escaped a data breach by stopping an intrusion at the country's statistics agency. The cyberattack used a zero-day vulnerability in Apache Struts 2, which has now been patched.
A groundbreaking study from RAND Corporation quantifies the stakes around how zero-day software vulnerabilities get discovered and persist, bringing hard facts to bear on related - and contentious - debates surrounding vulnerability disclosure and public safety.
Our website uses cookies. Cookies enable us to provide the best experience possible and help us understand how visitors use our website. By browsing databreachtoday.asia, you agree to our use of cookies.