Collaborate Disseminate
A cryptocurrency exchange is offering a $250,000 bounty for information that leads to the arrest of individuals who perpetrated a hacking attack against its users. The first person to provide information that leads to the arrest of those behind a recen… Continue reading Crypto Exchange Offers $250K Bounty for Info on Hacking Attack
Digital threat detection isn’t as easy as it was more than a decade ago. The threat landscape no longer evolves slowly in pace with signature-based malware. It moves quickly and thereby complements the rate at which new software flaws are discove… Continue reading How Foundational Prevention Fills in the Gaps of Threat Detection
A new survey reveals that nearly one in five healthcare employees would be willing to sell confidential data to an unauthorized party. According to Accenture’s 2018 Healthcare Workforce Survey on Cybersecurity, 18 percent of employees that work a… Continue reading One in Five Healthcare Employees Would Be Willing to Sell Sensitive Data, Reveals Survey
A cryptocurrency exchange says a large-scale phishing campaign was behind abnormal trading activity that affected some of its users. The trouble started on 7 March when some Binance users posted to Reddit about problems involving their accounts’ … Continue reading Cryptocurrency Exchange Says Phishing Campaign Behind Abnormal Trading Activity
The UK Government has detailed its ambition to shift the burden of consumer IoT security away from end-users and towards industry. On 7 March, the Government revealed its Secure by Design policy paper. In it, the Department for Digital, Culture Media &… Continue reading UK Government Reveals Aim to Shift Consumer IoT Security Burden to Industry
A video game developer gave customers a $5.00 discount off their next purchase after discovering a data breach that affected two of its online stores. Nippon Ichi Software, a Japanese developer and publisher of video games, claims in an email sent out … Continue reading Video Game Developer Gave Customers $5 Voucher after Data Breach
Information security is an exciting and rapidly growing field for individuals who are interested in protecting users and their data. In an effort to map out the industry as a possible career choice, we recently conducted research into the top… Continue reading The Top 10 Highest Paying Jobs in Information Security – Part 2
It’s confirmed that some locations of the Applebee’s restaurant chain suffered a point-of-sale (POS) breach involving customers’ payment card data. On 2 March, RMH Franchise Holdings (RMH) issued a notice of data incident on its websi… Continue reading Point-of-Sale Breach Confirmed at Some Applebee’s Locations
Given a surge in digital threats like cryptominers, ransomware, and DDoS attacks, it is no surprise that the field of information security is booming. Cybersecurity Ventures estimates that there will be 1.5 million job openings across the industry in 2… Continue reading The Top 10 Highest Paying Jobs in Information Security – Part 1
Colorado’s Department of Transportation (CDOT) has suffered an infection from another variant of the same ransomware family that attacked it just days earlier. On 1 March, a variant of SamSam ransomware targeted employees at CDOT. The attack didn… Continue reading Another Ransomware Variant Strikes Colorado DOT Days after Initial Attack