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Dark Web Research: Criminals Pay Top Dollar for Your Certificates

It's frightening what criminals can buy on the dark web, but it's even scarier that they may be buying your own security certificates to use against you. Venafi recently sponsored a six-month investigation into the sale of digital code signing certificates on the dark web. Conducted with the Cyber Security Research...

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Going Beyond Windows OS: Malware Protection for Mac OS & Mobile Android and iOS Platforms

Yes, malware commonly targets the Windows operating system. But if you limit malware analysis to Windows OS, you're leaving gaping vulnerabilities, says Christopher Kruegel of Lastline Inc. Here's how to maximize your analysis. One common limitation of malware analysis is that organizations focus too much of their...

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S&P 400 Financial Services Leader's Choice for Advanced Malware Protection: A Case Study

As one of the top 20 largest providers of information technology services to the financial services industry, the company in this case study spends a considerable amount of time and resources ensuring that both its data and its customers' data is secure. Due to the tremendous amount of time involved in detecting...

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Aerospace Organization Defends Against Advanced Threats

This US aerospace research and development organization tackles one of the most ambitious engineering projects in the world - the design and creation of space exploration vehicles capable of transporting people into orbit.Their biggest security challenge was remaining vigilant and adapting to new threats while being...

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Resistance to Evasion Techniques: Lessons from Top Breach Prevention Provider

Finding an effective breach prevention provider is critical in order to safeguard an organization's assets. NSS Labs subjected nine cybersecurity market leaders to comprehensive, rigorous testing to determine how well each product handled current advanced threats and attack methods. All vendor products were evaluated...

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Cybercrime Will Exceed $2 Trillion by 2019: Top Threat to Infrastructure, Productivity and Revenue in Every Industry

As defense stategies become stronger year after year, it seems as though the prevalence of malware is growing proportionately, projected to exceed $2 trillion by 2019 - a four-fold increase in the cost of security breaches over 2015.Posing a threat to every industry, profession, and company, malware not only...

Threat Information Sharing: The Need for a Structured Approach

Developing safe and effective information sharing practices to foster greater interoperability presents big challenges. As information sharing becomes increasingly vital in building resilient cybersecurity, the need to put a strong, collaborative structure in place is critical. Although there are many options for...

When Malware Attacks Your IBM i, AIX, and Linux Servers; True Stories From the Field

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...

2017 State of IBM i Security Study; Don't Leave Your Data Vulnerable

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...

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Ransomware: The Defender's Advantage

As challenging as ransomware has proven to be against so many organizations across regions and sectors, certain characteristics actually can help defenders gain an edge at detecting malware. Lastline's Engin Kirda explains how. "Ransomware is a threat that needs to be taken seriously," says Kirda, cofounder and chief...

Is the Promise of Behavioral Biometrics Worth the Investment?

Behavioral biometrics has been getting a lot of attention recently due to its ability to uniquely address the challenges posed by social engineering, account takeovers and malware. It is already considered the third most popular biometric technology (after finger and face) and tied with iris. Nonetheless, as an...

Fraud in The Mobile Era: A Hacker's Delight

As mobile devices eclipse computers and laptops as the preferred method of going online, fraudsters have followed users, porting their modus operandi -account takeover, social engineering, and malware based remote control attacks - to the mobile arena. Thus, hackers have many more opportunities to perpetrate fraud and...

Oh, RATs! Current Fraud Detection Doesn't Catch Remote Access Trojans

Many IT professionals use remote administration tools to troubleshoot and fix PC problems remotely, just as if they were sitting behind the keyboard themselves. But these tools are also used for different purposes today. Both nation states and hacktivists use modified these tools, creating Remote Access Trojan's...

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Top 11 Automated Malware Analysis Providers Ranked by Forrester

Despite significant investments in the signature-based defenses of today's network, email and endpoint security solutions, since 2010, these solutions have been ineffective against the sheer volume of evolving malware. Security and risk professionals have turned to automated malware analysis (AMA) for help. These...

What's Required in Your Next Generation IPS Solution?

The threat landscape certainly has changed in recent years. But can you say the same about the traditional intrusion prevention system."The biggest problem with IPSs today is that organizations are trying to fight today's threats with yesterday's solutions," says Bertone, who serves as CTO of Fidelis Cybersecurity....