Due to its popularity as an embedded protocol operating in devices across the industrial control systems (ICS) domain, the Claroty Research Team decided to analyze the Open Platform Communications (OPC) for security vulnerabilities and implementation issues. In a blog, they shared some details about a number of vulnerabilities that emerged from their intensive investigation of the protocol.
NCC Group and Fox-IT have been tracking a threat group - Chimera - with a wide set of interests, from intellectual property (IP) from victims in the semiconductors industry through to passenger data from the airline industry.
U.S. cybersecurity company Malwarebytes is the latest victim in a string of attacks targeting top security firms. In a statement from the company, the hackers breached the internal systems by way of a dormant email protection product within their Office 365 tenant that allowed access to a limited subset of internal company emails.
Most bot mitigation solutions rely on rules and risk scores, which use information from the past, even when paired with advanced machine learning or AI capabilities. Since bot operators are continually inventing new ways to evade detection, using historical data fails to detect and stop bots never seen before. As a result, retailers and e-commerce companies can’t keep up with the evolving nature of bot operators’ techniques, tools, and tactics. This is evidenced by the record volume of “Grinch” bots that we saw over the holidays.
In advance of National Data Privacy Day this week, a new survey finds that 3/4 of respondents have had to change their password due to a security or data breach.
When it comes to cybersecurity, companies still have a lot of work to do to find ways to anticipate and avoid data breaches. Let’s take a look at a few of the most notorious cybersecurity attacks that have happened over the last few decades and see what you and your enterprise can learn.
As Data Privacy Day approaches this week, new research conducted by ISACA reveals critical skills gaps and insufficient training. The survey report, Privacy in Practice 2021: Data Privacy Trends, Forecasts and Challenges, also explores past and future trends in privacy, offering insights into privacy workforce and skills, the use of privacy by design, and the organizational structure and composition of privacy teams.
According to Digital Shadows’ Photon Research Team in Q4 2020, six groups made up 84% of alerts —Maze, Egregor, Conti, Sodinokibi, DoppelPaymer, and NetWalker— from the ransomware data leak sites Digital Shadows monitors.
The 167,000-square-foot, six-story structure will advances the university’s vision to earn national recognition as a research-intensive institution and bolsters San Antonio’s national standing as Cyber City USA.
Untangle Inc. announced the results for its annual Voice of the Channel and 2021 Predictions Report. The report surveyed Untangle’s global network of Channel Partners to better understand current trends and barriers faced when protecting clients against emerging cybersecurity threats and other customer barriers within the market.
