bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt permissions licenses and access controls

A security vulnerability exists in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt versions 0.8.0 to 0.8.0:rc1, which stems from the program's failure to implement protocol rules for certain blocks. A remote attacker could exploit the vulnerability to bypass established access restrictions and perform a double-spending...

Cloud Transformation Is The Biggest Opportunity To Fix Security

This overview builds on the recent report from Trend Micro Research on cloud-specific security gaps, which can be found here. Don’t be cloud-weary. Hear us out. Recently, a major tipping point was reached in the IT world when more than half of new IT spending was on cloud over non- cloud. So rath...

The Ultimate Security Budget Excel Template

Sound security budget planning and execution are essential for the CIO’s/CISO’s success. Now, for the first time, The Ultimate Security Budget Plan & Track Excel template download here provides security executives a clear and intuitive tool to keep track of planned vs. actual spend, ensuring that...

The Ultimate Security Budget Excel Template

Sound security budget planning and execution are essential for the CIO’s/CISO’s success. Now, for the first time, The Ultimate Security Budget Plan & Track Excel template download here provides security executives a clear and intuitive tool to keep track of planned vs. actual spend, ensuring that...

Why Businesses Should Consider Managed Cloud-Based WAF Protection

The City of Baltimore was under cyber-attack last year, with hackers demanding $76,000 in ransom. Though the city chose not to pay the ransom, the attack still cost them nearly $18 million in damages, and then the city signed up for a $20 million cyber insurance policy. It's very evident that...

Dashboards to Use on Palo Alto Networks for Effective Management

Enterprises should expect to see more cyberattacks launched against them. The data that they now gather and store have made their infrastructures key targets for hackers. Customer data and intellectual property can be sold in the black market for profit, and sensitive information can also be used...

Cynet is Launching a Free Threat Assessment for Businesses

By Zehra Ali In the age of regular cyber attacks and constant digital threats, it’s no wonder that businesses find themselves spending more and more on defense. Cyber security spending by businesses climbed to $13 million per company in 2018, an increase of 12% on the previous year. It’s an...

Explained: Payment Service Directive 2 (PSD2)

Payment Service Directive 2 PSD2 is the implementation of a European guideline designed to further harmonize money transfers inside the EU. The ultimate goal of this directive is to simplify payments across borders so that it's as easy as transferring money within the same country. Since the EU w...

Trump's Wall Won't Solve a National Emergency. It Is One

President Trump has signaled that in addition to signing a congressional spending bill, he will declare a national emergency to fund his misbegotten border wall...

Kicking off the Microsoft Graph Security Hackathon

Cybersecurity is one of the hottest sectors in tech with Gartner forecasting worldwide information spending to exceed $124 billion by the end of 2019. New startups and security solutions are coming onto the market while attackers continue to find new ways to breach systems. The security solutions...

Podcast: Why 'Throwing Money' at Threats Won't Work

Randori CTO David Wolpoff better known as Moose, joins the Threatpost Podcast this week to talk cyber-defense strategies with Threatpost’s Lindsey O’Donnell. With high-profile breaches making headlines every day, and enterprises spending more money on tools and solutions than ever before, Moose...

ThreatList: 1 Out of 5 Would Ditch a Business After a Data Breach

About a fifth of Americans would ditch a business in the wake of a major data breach, new research has found. In a survey of 2,000 adult consumers across the United States by PCI Pal, almost half 44 percent of them have personally suffered the negative consequences of a security breach or hack. S...

Creating a Cyber Panic Room to Fight Off Invasions

Genghis Khan was a mastermind. A terrifyingly brilliant military strategist who altered the course of world history. He used fear to paralyze his enemies. “In one apocryphal account circulated to create anxiety among the enemy, the Mongols supposedly promised to retreat from a besieged city if th...

Google and MasterCard will track your retail spending under a secret deal

By Waqas Google and MasterCard have jointly cut an ad deal to track your retail transactions. So far, we only knew that Google can track out online shopping preferences as we clicked on ads. However, this is quite surprising that it can now keep track of our retail transactions history from...

Significant retail spending on Mother's Day sets a stage for major holidays in 2018

The second Sunday in May is a special day for everyone because it's Mother's Day. It's also a special day for retailers, as it represents another peak period and serves as the halfway point between the prior year's Black Friday and Cyber Monday and the upcoming year's retail holidays. The retail...

File Upload Vulnerability in Merchant Alliance Membership Spending Management System

Merchant Alliance Consumer Management System is a management software for professional membership management and merchant settlement for heterogeneous merchant alliances. A file upload vulnerability exists in the Merchant Alliance Membership and Consumption Management System. The attacker does no...

Will Subscribers Pay for Security?

Carriers see security as a vital component of their five-year strategies and expect to increase spending on security in 2018 according to the Telecoms.com Annual Industry Survey 2017. Is security a good business opportunity for Carriers? Turns out investment in security has a good payback based o...

4 Predictions for the Cybersecurity Landscape in 2018

Targeted attacks are on the rise, and the dark web isn’t helping curb that trend. To compound this, the recent revelations on Shadow Brokers and CIA Vault 7, as well as burgeoning nation-state cyber capabilities aren’t helping either. It’s only a matter of time before more attack methods are...

How To Budget For Cyber Security in 2018

As Q4 begins in earnest, now is the time to start making considerations for next year's budgets. This is especially true for the company's IT and cyber security budgets - a difficult decision with so many robust technologies and new threats emerging. Compounding this problem is the fact that many...

Explained: blockchain technology

Last week, we talked about what cryptocurrency is and why cybercriminals love it. We mentioned that cryptocurrency was founded on a technology called blockchain, which is a tight system that, when applied correctly, is more secure than most other financial transactions. In this post, we'll explai...