ThreatList: Latest DDoS Trends by the Numbers

Fresh statistics reveal a mix bag of good news and bad when it comes to distributed denial-of-service attacks in Q4 2018. According to the latest numbers available, the sheer number of attacks are down, but the length of time those attacks last have reached record lengths. The numbers come from...

What is the Cb Predictive Security Cloud (PSC)?

In today’s new reality, the device, and the people operating those devices, have taken center stage. Whether in your office or at a Starbucks, your endpoints now have access to some of your organization’s most sensitive data via cloud services, such as Salesforce.com, Office 365, and the Google...

Academia's Role in Security Skills Gap Examined

LAS VEGAS—For a long time, there’s been a chorus from employers about the lacked of skilled security professionals to fill available openings. And while it would not be an illogical leap to think universities are adequately preparing tomorrow’s security admins and CISOs, quite the opposite may be...

2015 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR

The 2015 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR did some mythbusting on two fronts: the estimated cost per record lost in a breach is much lower than reported elsewhere; and mobile malware is a no-go. The DBIR is Verizon’s annual data dump collected from breaches it has investigated, alon...

DDoS Attacks : A Serious unstoppable menace for IT security communities

It should be the busiest day of the year for your business, but your website has just disappeared off the Internet and orders have dried up. If this happens to you, then you likely just become yet another victim of a distributed denial of service DDoS attack. By now, everyone who uses the Interne...

Office Attacks Linger Years After Patches Published

More than half of the attacks against Microsoft Office applications during the first six months of 2009 were against applications that had not been patched in more than five years. In its semi-annual Security Intelligence Report, a six-month review of malware and attack trends released Monday,...

Hackers social engineering attacks new technologies:opportunities and-attack-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Opportunities type of attack refers to a specific time, place, event, environmental conditions, take special tools for the invasion and destruction of the means, it belongs to social engineering attacks, and in 2 0 0 8 years will frequently appear. Trendy attacks As social engineering attacks,...