State officials in Texas say that at least 23 local government entities have fallen victim to a coordinated ransomware attack unleashed on Friday morning. Security experts say attackers continue to pummel local governments, and illicit profits have been rising.
The European Central Bank has closed one of its websites after its IT staff found that a hacker compromised some personal information on the site and also planted malware.
This edition of the ISMG Security Report discusses the latest improvements in deception technology and how best to apply it. Also featured: a report on the growth of mobile fraud, plus insights on Merck's experience recovering from a NotPetya attack.
Paige A. Thompson, who's been arrested on a charge of hacking into Capital One's network and taking the personal and financial data of 106 million individuals, is also suspected of stealing information from over 30 other organizations, according to new court documents.
Choice Hotels says about 700,000 guest records were exposed after one of its vendors copied data from its systems. Fraudsters discovered the unsecured database and tried to hold the hotel chain to ransom, which it ignored.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the exposure of personal and mortgage-related records from First American Financial Corp., according to security blogger Brian Krebs. First American spent $1.7 million on the incident in its second quarter, but investigations and lawsuits are looming.
The global nature of business and the presence and impact of cyber adversaries make it an organizational imperative to consistently re-assess the effectiveness of our security practices. Adopting best practices have become essential to consistently managing enterprise risk. Zero Trust offers security practitioners a...
For results-oriented security leaders seeking to rationalize their security stack, deception solutions can solve more than just the internal threat detection problem. This session will cover case studies where deception is used to not only amplify internal threat detection, but also improve threat prevention and...
Deception technology has been on security leaders' radar some time, but now it is becoming accessible to smaller organizations. And in their most recent analyses, market analysts give deception technologies kudos for improved sophistication and maturity.
Deception focuses on deploying assets - such as lures, bogus...
A little over a week after a breach at Capital One was revealed, more U.S. lawmakers are raising questions about what happened at the bank, including what role, if any, Amazon may have played in opening the door to the intrusion.
More lawsuits have been filed in the wake of the Capital One breach that exposed the data of more than 100 million individuals. GitHub is also a target of one of those lawsuits, which alleges the code-sharing site failed to promptly remove breached data.
Capital One's enormous data breach is a subject of intense scrutiny as well as fear. A definitive post mortem is likely months away. But security professionals have ideas as to how the breach was achieved and the weaknesses that led to it.
This exclusive session delves into the details of some of CrowdStrike's most eye opening breach investigations of the past year and highlights the need for speed in modern security operations centers. Hear and learn about the latest Canadian IR and Forensics trends within the Healthcare, Oil & Gas and Financial...
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes the root causes of the Capital One data breach. Also featured: breach remediation advice and compliance with New York's new third-party risk management requirements.
In what's likely the first of many investigations, the New York attorney general's office announced late Tuesday that it's launching a Capital One probe following the disclosure that over 100 million U.S. residents had their personal data exposed in a breach. Meanwhile, class action lawsuits are looming.
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