Notable brands like Target, Neiman Marcus, PF Chang?s, Staples, Michaels Stores, and Home Depot have all have become victims of point of sale (POS) security breaches targeting consumer payment card data.
Of the approximately 19,000 survey respondents from 144 countries, only 3% were able to correctly identify every example correctly and 80% of all respondents misidentified at least one of the phishing emails, which is all it takes to fall victim to an attack.
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation services provider IPC (IP Converge Data Services, Inc.) recently sounded the alarm on the increased risk of internet attacks via a new vector, based on a recent report by their partner in DDoS defense, Nexusguard.
Although security spending is at an all-time high, security breaches at major organizations are also at an all-time high, according to analyst firm Gartner.
The discovery was made by Kaspersky Lab experts during research into the activity of Naikon, a cyberespionage group also targeting organizations in the Asia Pacific region.
The study showed that 68% of parent Internet users faced prevalent threats to children such as adult content, gambling, and sites carrying information about weapons.
ISO 9001:2008 (QMS) is one of the most widely sought-after certifications, being the global standard by which the quality of an organization?s internal processes is measured.
The application, Android Package File (APK), is vulnerable to hijacking and is replaced it with an app of the attacker?s choice, without the user?s knowledge.
Kaspersky Labs said the most sophisticated threat actors now focus on increasing the number of components in their malicious platform in order to reduce their visibility and enhance stealth.
