Ask the Howlers: Latest Threats and Security Challenges Part 1

This is part of our ongoing bi-weekly webinar series called Ask the Howlers, where cybersecurity experts discuss the latest news, security challenges, and answer your questions. There is no doubt that remote work has become the new norm. Many organizations around the world are adapting to this ne...

The Enemy Within: How Insider Threats Are Changing

Insider threats are ramping up – with new kinds of concerns in this category beginning to emerge. This is happening against a heady backdrop: Makeshift home offices, a cavalcade of new distractions and a tectonic shift to the cloud have recently collided to create an entirely new world for...

6 Best Practices to Fight a New Breed of Insider Threats

The current global pandemic has disrupted how organizations work. Some businesses quickly adapt while other organizations are still figuring out the new landscape. Unfortunately, criminals are exploiting vulnerabilities during this challenging time. There has been an 238% increase in cyberattacks...

Security Challenges in FinTech – Discussion with Vandana Verma, OWASP

In the digital era, financial institutions serve an increasing number of customers through web and mobile applications. Fintech maintains online security, and OWASP offers pieces of the puzzle to address the challenges. We CAN solve these challenges by leveraging the OWASP community knowledge bas...

BEC Gang Exploits G Suite, Long Domain Names in Cyberattacks

Business email compromise BEC attacks continue to be a thorn in companies’ sides, with the FBI in its IC3 annual cybercrime report saying that the attacks cost victims $1.7 billion in 2019. Making matters worse, BEC cybergangs are turning to new tactics and tricks to avoid detection and capitaliz...

Skype Phishing Attack Targets Remote Workers' Passwords

Remote workers are being warned of a new phishing campaign targeting their Skype passwords. The phishing emails look “eerily similar” to a legitimate Skype notification alert, according to a report released by Cofense on Thursday. Emails indicate users have 13 pending Skype notifications that can...

Safe Remote Access to Critical Infrastructure Networks in a Time of Global Crisis

With governments closing down workplaces all over the world, telecommuting presents not just online administrative and capacity challenges for organizations, but also security challenges. As highlighted in a recent article by Andy Greenberg from Wired, when more and more employees are asked to VP...

Attack matrix for Kubernetes

Kubernetes, the most popular container orchestration system and one of the fastest-growing projects in the history of open source, becomes a significant part of many companies’ compute stack. The flexibility and scalability of containers encourage many developers to move their workloads to...

Coronavirus Poll Results: Cyberattacks Ramp Up, WFH Prep Uneven

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep the globe and Americans are told to isolate from others, many organizations are sending employees home to work. While most respondents in a Threatpost poll this week said they feel prepared from a security standpoint for this transition, a fifth of them...

Coronavirus Poll Results: Cyberattacks Ramp Up, WFH Prep Uneven

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep the globe and Americans are told to isolate from others, many organizations are sending employees home to work. While most respondents in a Threatpost poll this week said they feel prepared from a security standpoint for this transition, a fifth of them...

Working from Home: COVID-19's Constellation of Security Challenges

As the threat of coronavirus continues to spread, businesses are sending employees home to work remotely, and students are moving to online classes. But with the social distancing comes a new threat – a cyber-related one. As organizations rush to shift their businesses and classes online,...

Let’s Encrypt Pushes Back Deadline to Revoke Some TLS Certificates

Let’s Encrypt said it will give users of its Transport Layer Security TLS certificates more time to replace 1 million certificates that are still active and potentially affected by a Certificate Authority Authorization CAA bug before it revokes them. The popular free certificate authority had giv...

Download: The State of Breach Protection 2020 Survey Report

Cynet launched in December 2019 the State of Breach Protection 2020 Survey. Based on the responses from 1,536 individuals, they now share the survey report that includes common practices, priorities, and preferences of security leaders as they strive to secure their organization from a breach...

Facebook Security Debacles: 2019 Year in Review

Facebook Security: 2019 Year in Review Facebook spent the past year both trying to deal with the consequences of the Cambridge Analytica scandal that rocked its public relations in 2018, as well as other issues afflicting the social media platform – from data security challenges to political...

The 2020 State of Breach Protection Survey – Call for Participation

2010-2019 decade will be remembered as the time in which cybersecurity became acknowledged as a critical concern for all organizations. With rapidly growing security needs and respective budgets, it is now more essential than ever for security decision-makers to zoom out of the 'products' mindset...

Java Security Advent Calendar 2019

Open Advent Calendar 2019 24 Java Security Challenges Every day in December, until 24th, we will release a new Java code snippet that poses a critical security bug - similar to last years calendars. Each hidden bug can be in form of a classic vulnerability type, a faulty security patch that can b...

Labs report finds cyberthreats against healthcare increasing while security circles the drain

The team at Malwarebytes Labs is at it again, this time with a special edition of our quarterly CTNT report—Cybercrime tactics and techniques: the 2019 state of healthcare. Over the last year, we gathered global data from our product telemetry, honeypots, threat intelligence, and research efforts...

Thinking about the balance between compliance and security

Today, many organizations still struggle to adhere to General Data Protection Regulation GDPR mandates even though this landmark regulation took effect nearly two years ago. A key learning for some: being compliant does not always mean you are secure. Shifting privacy regulations, combined with...

Why Should CISOs Care About XDR?

We have been collectively saying in our industry for the last 15-20 years that a layered approach to your security stack is a “best practice,” but as with all best practices, these are ideals rather than reality for so many charged with protecting their organizations. The vast majority of CISOs a...

Making the case: How to get the board to invest in higher education cybersecurity

Security leaders in institutions of higher education face unique challenges, as they are charged with keeping data and the network secure, while also allowing for a culture of openness, sharing, and communication—all cornerstones of the academic community. And depending on the college or...