Articles Tagged with ''cyber threats''

Microsoft has expanded its $100,000 bounty program Monday, and will accept reports of in-the-wild attacks that demonstrate new techniques of bypassing Windows’ anti-exploit technologies, Computerworld reports.

Black Hat, by its name, seems ominous. What was once a conclave of hackers in 1997 has become a fast-growing global conference series focused on the business of cyber security and includes technical presentations on vulnerabilities and solutions.

 Each minute in 2010 there were 45 new viruses created, 200 new malicious websites established, 180 personal identities stolen, 5,000 new versions of malware created and most importantly, 2 million dollars lost.  

Aon Corp. has sold more cyber insurance products in the last year and a half than the five years prior combined, marking an upward trend in enterprises' awareness of cyber threats.

Ignorance is not bliss for companies facing cyber threats; a lack of knowledge of cyber security risks is the most likely cause of a successful malware attack. 

Requests for 2,500 absentee ballots, many originating from a few IP addresses overseas, caught the attention of fraud-detection software and election officials as the first cyberattack on an electronic election process. 

A study from (ISC)2 found that the global shortage of IT security professionals is driven by a combination of business conditions, executives who don't understand the need for security and an inability to locate enough qualified IT security professionals.

Hundreds of terabytes of data have been stolen from U.S. and other foreign companies and governments, Mandiant's report states. 

A lack of early security training for programmers is partly to blame, researchers say.