Recently, Cloudflare detected and mitigated a 17.2 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack, an attack almost three times larger than previously ever reported.
A vulnerability in the Universal Plug-and-Play (UPnP) service of Cisco Small Business Routers could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause an affected device to restart unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.
The Transportation Security Administration is extending the face mask requirement for individuals across all transportation networks throughout the United States through January 18, 2022.
Every organization must prepare for a ransomware attack. The question is how best to do it. Surprisingly, we can turn to an unlikely source for advice on avoiding a ransomware attack – the criminals themselves.
The 2021 Insider Threat Virtual Conference, hosted jointly by the Defense Counterintelligence Security Agency and the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, will bring together security professionals and policy makers across U.S. government and industry to kick off the National Insider Threat Awareness Month (NITAM) campaign. The theme for this year's conference and campaign is Cultural Awareness and Insider Threat.
"The Perfect Scorecard: Getting An 'A' in Cybersecurity From Your Board Of Directors" book offers best practices in closing the communications gap between security experts and the board members tasked with the organization's governance and oversight activities.
As detailed in a new Area 1 Security report, threats ranging from ransomware, credential harvesters to difficult-to-discover but costly business email compromise targeted inboxes, could have resulted in over $354 million in direct losses had they been successful.
In this piece, we look at what the Protect Duty law in the U.K. will look like, how it might impact legal requirements in other countries, and how security professionals in the U.S. and beyond can use the findings of the inquiry to fulfill their ethical responsibility to keep visitors and staff as safe as possible.
Ernie Anderson, Head of Professional Services at Kudelski Security, speaks to Security about the importance of a deputy chief information security officer (CISO) and why this position is critical to addressing security risk management.
