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Ransomware, healthcare and incident response: Lessons from the Allscripts attack
The actors behind SamSam launched a devastating attack against Allscripts in January, 2018. As Allscripts worked its incident response plan, things started to unravel. Here are the lessons learned.
Without the right data, CNP fraud protection could be out of reach
Capturing and analyzing your sales and fraud data gives your ecommerce business real-time, dynamic information that helps you keep pace with rapid changes in the way fraudsters operate. Without this information, your fraud prevention...
Cross-channel fraud detection
How performing behavioral analysis across silos can help detect sophisticated attacks.
SirenJack: Hackers can hijack emergency alert sirens with a $35 radio and laptop
Emergency alert systems manufactured by Acoustic Technology Inc. can be hijacked and made to play any audio thanks to a vulnerability dubbed SirenJack.
Bridging the realms between cyber and physical security
Can there be better automated incident response for physical security?
Social engineering: It's time to patch the human
Is there a patch for human stupidity? If you believe the common saying, there isn't. However, Jayson E. Street says there is, and it's time companies started patching their humans. The truth is, technology alone isn't going to save...
The best cybersecurity analysts should play the part of detective
Today’s cybersecurity analysts need to be part detective, following their gut wherever it takes them and thinking like the very attackers.
Combating cyber threats in critical infrastructure through due diligence
Regardless of the implementation method, it’s important for critical infrastructure industries to assess their cybersecurity risks and to protect themselves. An optimal way to start is to adopt the NIST CSF, which will bring depth and...
8 questions to ask about your industrial control systems security
Do you have a real cybersecurity-focused ICS strategy in place, or are you force-fitting IT security policies on your industrial control systems?
Why ecommerce fraud needs a multichannel response
Ecommerce fraud isn’t just an online problem anymore. With fraudulent activity spanning the online, mobile and offline channels, it’s time that e-commerce retailers treat fraud prevention as a multichannel issue.
Inside RSA's state-of-the-art fraud intelligence command center
RSA’s Anti-Fraud Command Center helps financial services firms stay a step ahead of fraudsters and criminals. The ultimate goal: Someday make it not worth their effort to even try.
Keep those nuclear secrets secret. No problem, I'll hoard them in my attic
Weldon Marshall recently pled guilty to stealing U.S government secrets associated with the U.S. nuclear weapons systems and keeping them in his Texas home.
Insecure by design: What you need to know about defending critical infrastructure
Patching is useless most of the time, industrial control systems (ICS) security expert tells Senate committee.
‘Sakawa boys’: Meet the professional internet fraudsters of Ghana
In Ghana and Nigeria internet fraud is an increasingly common way for young people to make money
The global cyber war is heating up: Why businesses should be worried
From NotPetya's global disruption to North Korea's digital plundering of financial institutions, state-sponsored cyber attacks should be top of mind for business leaders. Here's how to defend against them.
What happens if... disaster recovery for the smart city and beyond
Using disaster-recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) for smart distributed data.
North Korea hacking group is expanding operations, researchers say
A group of hackers from North Korea (DPRK), recently connected to the usage of an Adobe Flash zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2018-4878), has expanded its operations in both scope and sophistication, FireEye says.
Data as a smart superstructure: a warning to the wise
Only by having a robust data governance stance can we hope to, not only protect our individual critical infrastructure sectors but the city and its citizens.
How to ensure that giving notice doesn’t mean losing data
The employee exit process often devolves into a fire-drill for IT teams. Having a documented process and a strong relationship with HR can help your team go from reactive to proactive.
How to prove and fight online dating and romance scams
Friends and family of romance scam victims sometimes call on security pros to prove their online loves are not who they claim to be. Here's how to handle the case the right way.
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