A zero-day credential phishing attack impersonating the U.S. Supreme Court and leveraging the legitimacy of CAPTCHA was recently stopped dead in its tracks. By using machine learning algorithms, Armorblox foiled the attack aimed at C-suite executives, according to a blog post by company co-founder and architect Chetan Anand. The attackers were mainly trying to use…
The World Economic Forum mainly concerns itself with high-level macroeconomic issues such as global recessions and world economic development. That’s why it was significant this week when the WEF cited cybersecurity as one of its “Top 10 Fallout” issues from COVID-19 in its Global Risks report. Nearly 38 percent of those surveyed say changing work…
The advocacy group Abuse.ch has found a Covid-19-related malspam campaign that impersonates the U.S. Treasury Department and more than likely looks to steal a taxpayer’s credentials using a remote access trojan. In a recent Twitter post, the group shows a fraudulent letter from the Treasury Department that seeks to get the taxpayer to contact Treasury…
The numbers are in and they are terrible. The FBI reports that more than 4,000 ransomware attacks occur daily and industry research has found there are 230,000 new malware samples produced every day. During the past six years, the Breach Level Index reports that 15 billion data records have been lost or stolen. That translates…
A new take on the old adage “you’re known by the company you keep,” might aptly apply to women in security who’ve found success, progress and opportunities in organizations that know their value. Take Emily Mossburg, who has been forging a path in cybersecurity for more than 20 years where she’s now a principal at…
Sometimes an issue floats just beyond the horizon or simmers on the backburner before it boldly flashes forward, not to be ignored or diminished any longer. That’s what’s happened with privacy – percolating for years, the subject of discussion – but with true awareness rising in the U.S. only for the past 12 to 18…
Time flies when you’re making history. Hard to believe so much time has passed, but 30 years ago in 1989, at the same time SC made its debut, Sir Tim Berners-Lee was inventing the World Wide Web while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. Berners-Lee wrote the first web client and server a year…
By now it’s clear most corporate people understand that the security posture of business partners and third parties has become a top priority. After all, nobody wants to experience another Target breach, where an HVAC vendor was exposed, causing vulnerabilities in the main POS system. Companies have worked hard the past few years making sure…
With all the focus on high-profile malware cases, it’s vulnerabilities in Word docs, PostScript printers and IoT devices that can really drive you crazy.
Use these talking points to get your top management up-to-speed on the disturbing chip design flaw.
