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Your nearest and dearest are snooping on your phone

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If you needed one more reason for protecting your phone with a passcode or fingerprint, here it is: there’s a good chance that one or more of the people close to you have snooped on it in the last year. A group of researchers from University of British Columbia and University of Lisbon have polled 1,381 users via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, and the results they gathered have shown that: 31% of participants looked through someone … More → Continue reading Your nearest and dearest are snooping on your phone→

Rise of Darknet Stokes Fear of The Insider

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With the proliferation of shadowy black markets on the so-called “darknet” — hidden crime bazaars that can only be accessed through special software that obscures one’s true location online — it has never been easier for disgruntled employees to harm their current or former employer. At least, this is the fear driving a growing stable of companies seeking technical solutions to detect would-be insiders. Continue reading Rise of Darknet Stokes Fear of The Insider→

Insider Breach: T-Mobile Czech Employee Steals and Sells 1.5 Million Users Data

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T-Mobile is the latest in the list of recent high-profile data breaches, though this time the breach is not carried out by “Peace” – the Russian hacker who was behind the massive breaches in some popular social media sites including LinkedIn, MySpace, … Continue reading Insider Breach: T-Mobile Czech Employee Steals and Sells 1.5 Million Users Data→

Insider Threats, Industrial Sabotage and Game Theory

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Insider threats can achieve industrial sabotage by slowly gaining control over individual projects, programs and then eventually the company.

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The InfoSecond, Week of May 30: Ransomware Targeting Amazon Users, Preventing Hacks and More!

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This week’s InfoSecond is packed with the latest security news, including a ransomware attack on Amazon users and tips for preventing a social media hack.

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Organizations unprepared for employee-caused security incidents

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While employee-related security risks are the number-one concern for security professionals, organizations are not taking adequate steps to prevent negligent employee behavior, according to a new Ponemon Institute study. The study, Managing Insider Risk Through Training & Culture, asked more than 600 individuals at companies that currently have a data protection and privacy training program to weigh in on the topic of negligent and malicious employee behaviors, as well as the consequences of poor security … More → Continue reading Organizations unprepared for employee-caused security incidents→

Behavior is the new authentication: A look into the future

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In the next few years organizations will face extreme IT security challenges. Hackers are targeting humans instead of machines. All the most costly cyber attacks (APTs, ransomware) are a result of employees or third party providers’ privilege misuse, and executing a social engineering attack is easier than finding zero days. Traditional pattern-based perimeter defense tools, password-based authentication, user access control solutions are necessary but missing a trick when it comes to the detection of privileged … More → Continue reading Behavior is the new authentication: A look into the future→

Verizon’s 2016 DBIR: Humans Remain the Weakest Link

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The Verizon 2016 DBIR revealed that many established attack vectors are still effective. Organizations need to embrace possible security solutions.

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