The Department of Justice recently took a step towards greater protection of government data in cyberspace with the constitution of its first Cyber Security Incident Response Team or the CSIRT.
French digital security provider Gemalto is focused on addressing the areas of dynamic change: paper trails going digital, services going mobile, things getting connected, services tapping cloud storage, and technologies converging and going contactless.
The attack exploited zero-day vulnerabilities and spreads in the network through MSI (Microsoft Software Installer) files, which are commonly used by system administrators to deploy software on remote Windows computers.
Phishing is a form of identity theft whereby someone steals or uses personal or sensitive information of another person by hacking into one's personal account, hijacking one's data and taking over one's online identity, to commit fraudulent acts or crimes.
Once activated, the malware generates a lot of Internet traffic, resulting in high bills. Interestingly, Eset found that this app exclusively attacks Android devices without a security solution installed.
A decade-long cyber espionage operation for stealing sensitive information from India and several Asean countries was discovered by US-based online security firm FireEye.
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.
