Articles Tagged with ''cyber security''

A new study, Cybersecurity in the City: Ranking America's Most Insecure Metros, has identified Las Vegas, Memphis and Charlotte as America's most cyber insecure cities.

A recent study of 61 million leaked passwords from Virginia Tech and Dashlane uncovered troubling password patterns.

Positive Technologies released a new report, Bank Attacks 2018, detailing that banks have built up formidable barriers to prevent external attacks, yet fall short in defending against internal attackers.

Equifax has said that passport images and information were stolen as part of last year’s security breach.

Female and male cybersecurity professionals share the same workplace values, priorities and aspirations. Both place about the same level of importance on matters such as salary and working close to home – and both apply roughly the same skills to their work and view protecting people and data as their primary function, according to recent (ISC)² research.

Reading the title above your first thought might be a cyber-attack resulting from a deliberate insider or an unintentional, well-meaning employee.

The 2018 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index has found the number of records breached dropped nearly 25 percent in 2017, as cybercriminals shifted their focus on launching ransomware and destructive attacks that lock or destruct data unless the victim pays a ransom.