Researchers at Trend Micro have been monitoring a business email compromise (BEC) campaign aimed at companies from all around the world.
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What Does a Typical Fortune 100 CISO Look Like?
What does a CISO look like? You may think that's a tough question–and it is. But the folks at cybersecurity firm Digital Guardian have done some research and profiled the typical CISO at a Fortune 100 enterprise.
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SAST and DAST: Part of a Balanced Software Security Initiative
“…is part of this balanced breakfast…”
This is the claim of many sugary cereals aimed directly at children. It is also the claim of many vendors in the software security market.
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Experts Earn $280,000 for Hacking Safari, Flash, Chrome
Pwn2Own 2016 contestants hacked Apple Safari, Adobe Flash Player and Google Chrome, and earned more than $280,000 on the first day of the competition taking place this week alongside the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada.
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American Express Warns Cardholders of Data Breach
American Express informed customers last week that their payment card information may have been compromised after a third party service provider suffered a data breach.
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Malvertising Campaign Hits Top Global Websites
A recent malvertising campaign leveraging the Angler exploit kit (EK) has hit many top websites, including news sites, entertainment portals, and political commentary sites.
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iOS Malware “AceDeceiver” Exploits Flaw in Apple DRM
Researchers have discovered a new iOS malware family that abuses design flaws in Apple’s FairPlay digital rights management (DRM) technology to infect devices, even ones that haven’t been jailbroken.
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Breach at DDoS Protection Firm Staminus Exposes 2,300 Clients
Last week, distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection company Staminus was breached in an attack that appears to have impacted roughly 2,300 current and past customers.
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Cybersecurity Needs a Moonshot!
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Continue readingDefunct iPhone App Exposes Details of 198,000 Users
A researcher discovered an unprotected database storing the details of 198,000 users who had signed up for a now-defunct iOS application.
A misconfigured MongoDB database associated with the iPhone app Kinotopic was discovered by Chris Vickery, a researcher who currently works at Kromtech, the company behind MacKeeper.
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