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During mergers and acquisitions, companies should conduct third-party risk assessments to identify insider threats that might be lurking on the network.
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Information security staffs are so single-minded about defending their organizations from external attack that they all but ignore a threat with vastly greater potential for damage, according to the SANS Institute. Looking for an easier target As security protecting organizations from outside attack gets more formidable, attackers look for easier targets – users who already have access to an organization’s most sensitive data, for example, and aren’t as hard to fool as security systems. “While … More → Continue reading Every organization is only one click away from a potential compromise
Healthcare insurance giant Bupa has warned customers that it has suffered a breach, after an employee inappropriately copied and removed customer information from the business.
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Security leaders must defend sensitive enterprise information from both external actors and negligent insiders who might accidentally cause a data breach.
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Just 24 hours after a malicious worm infected thousands of computers across Europe, the now infamous Shadow Brokers group published a message celebrating the chaos, advertised a vague new “VIP service” and threatened an unnamed former NSA official for “writing ugly tweets.” In a post on social media publishing site Steemit, the group also hinted at being in possession of FBI hacking tools. Until Wednesday, it was largely believed that only NSA-linked exploits had been published by the group. The Shadow Brokers described a former NSA official “as a doctor living in Hawaii that owns a security company.” The group threatened to publish this person’s personal information — a practice known as “doxxing” — including their operational history at NSA. The person’s record included missions targeting Chinese nationals, the Shadow Brokers said. “TheShadowBrokers is thinking ‘doctor’ person is former EquationGroup developer who built many tools and hacked organization in China,” the blog […]
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Just 24 hours after a malicious worm infected thousands of computers across Europe, the now infamous Shadow Brokers group published a message celebrating the chaos, advertised a vague new “VIP service” and threatened an unnamed former NSA official for “writing ugly tweets.” In a post on social media publishing site Steemit, the group also hinted at being in possession of FBI hacking tools. Until Wednesday, it was largely believed that only NSA-linked exploits had been published by the group. The Shadow Brokers described a former NSA official “as a doctor living in Hawaii that owns a security company.” The group threatened to publish this person’s personal information — a practice known as “doxxing” — including their operational history at NSA. The person’s record included missions targeting Chinese nationals, the Shadow Brokers said. “TheShadowBrokers is thinking ‘doctor’ person is former EquationGroup developer who built many tools and hacked organization in China,” the blog […]
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According to recent research, privileged users and administrators represent the biggest insider threats to any organization’s sensitive data.
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Police have uncovered a large network of Apple distributor employees selling iPhone users’ data on the black market. Continue reading Distributor caught selling Apple customers’ data
Our prediction at the end of 2016 held true: The influx of advanced DDoS, POS and other attacks targeting the financial sector has yet to abate in 2017.
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In manufacturing, security incidents occurred at a rate 40 percent higher than the average across all other industries in 2016, according to X-Force data.
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