Articles Tagged with ''hackers''

Thinking like a hacker: Protect your company from cyberattacks

October 1, 2021

How long does a cybercriminal’s timeline usually take? What are their moves? And what tools do they usually employ? To answer these questions, it helps to think like a hacker.

Malware-as-a-service is the growing threat every security team must confront today

Ron Davidson

September 7, 2021

Hackers are entrepreneurs. After legitimate developers built software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses by renting access to productivity software, cybercriminals seeking new revenue streams created malware-as-a-service (MaaS) as a dangerous alternative.

CISA believes SolarWinds attack could have been prevented with simple countermeasures

June 23, 2021

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says the 2020 SolarWinds supply chain cybersecurity compromise could have been prevented with a decade-old security recommendation.

McDonald's Corp suffers data breach

June 14, 2021

McDonald's Corp. said hackers exposed U.S. business information and some customer data in South Korea and Taiwan.

Behind the scenes of a ransomware attack and response

Marc Bleicher

June 3, 2021

Threat actors are now not only encrypting critical business systems, but also backups. They’ve brought businesses to a standstill, leaving some non-operational and really, with no good options for recovery. In many cases, it’s been pay the ransom to obtain a decryption key — or go out of business.

New survey finds that password hygiene amongst cybersecurity leaders is lacking

Constella Intelligence research reveals that one in four cybersecurity leaders use the same passwords for both work and personal use; more than half experience account takeover first-hand

May 21, 2021

Constella Intelligence (“Constella”), Digital Risk Protection leader, released the results of “Cyber Risk in Today’s Hyperconnected World,” a survey that unlocks the behaviors and tendencies that characterize how vigilant organizations’ leaders are when it comes to reducing cyber vulnerability, allowing the industry to better understand how social media is leveraged as an attack vector and how leaders are responding to this challenge.

Can you hack the municipality of The Hague (Nl)?

May 20, 2021

The municipality of The Hague in The Netherlands allows itself to be hacked every year during Hâck The Hague. A hacking competition organized by the municipality, together with cybersecurity company Cybersprint. On Monday, September 27, 2021, 200 ethical hackers from the Netherlands and abroad will once again try to detect vulnerabilities in the digital infrastructure of the municipality and its suppliers. With this competition, The Hague wants to increase its resilience and stimulate its suppliers to continuously be in top digital condition, so that peace and security can be guaranteed.

PHDays and The Standoff taking place May 18-21

May 18, 2021

The Standoff 2021 is taking place this week May 18-21, in conjunction with PHDays (Positive Hack Days) – one of the top cybersecurity conferences in Europe that features the world's cutting edge in digital security every year. The Standoff is an online offensive/defensive competition in which defenders (blue teams) compete against attackers (red teams) to control the infrastructure of a simulated digital city.

5 minutes with AJ Samuel – Why legal teams must quarterback data breach responses

Maria Henriquez

April 28, 2021

Data breach and privacy incidents occur daily at organizations of all sizes. It happens all too frequently. And while it is obvious that breaches continue impacting hundreds of thousands of lives, legal and compliance teams are not always brought in to manage each breach. With increased focus from regulators and law enforcement agencies to ensure organizations fulfill their obligations for post-breach notifications, legal teams can help quickly coordinate internal processes, and take swift action to begin the process of remediating damage and initiate immediate legal steps to protect the enterprise, and comply fully with all regulatory obligations. Here, we talk to AJ Samuel, co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Exterro, about the many benefits of retaining legal counsel, who can better protect the integrity and confidentiality of the incident response.

500m LinkedIn accounts leaked

April 12, 2021

An individual is selling the data of 500 million LinkedIn profiles on a popular cybercriminal forum, according to news reports. The leaked files contain information about the LinkedIn users whose data has been allegedly scraped by the threat actor, including their full names, email addresses, phone numbers, workplace information, and more, according to CyberNews.

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