The security of Internet-connected toys is in the limelight after toymaker VTech acknowledged suffering a data breach that affects 5 million accounts and personal information and photographs relating to more than 200,000 children.
Ireland's Cyber Crime Conference in Dublin drew a capacity crowd for a full day of security briefings, networking, hotly contested capture-the-flag and secure-coding challenges, as well as a chance to sharpen one's lock-picking skills.
TalkTalk's confusion in the wake of its recent data breach, as well as mangling of technical details and failure to encrypt customer data, demonstrate the importance of having an incident-response plan ready in advance of any breach, experts say.
The FBI is pursuing a suspected Russian hacker who reportedly amassed a trove of 1.2 billion stolen online credentials, plus payment card data and Social Security numbers, and who's offered access to hacked Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Despite near-constant warnings from law enforcement officials and the information security community, too many organizations still aren't taking security seriously, experts warned at the Irish Cyber Crime Conference in Dublin.
In an age of ubiquitous information sharing, it is critical to control how information is presented - and to whom. Lynne Courts of Seclore discusses new security strategies and solutions that address this need.
As organizations increasingly focus on securing critical data, they mustn't overlook one huge vulnerability: enterprise email. Steven Malone of Mimecast discusses the latest in unified email management.
Public-sector organizations need to better understand the driving forces, priorities and procedures within the organizations they "protect." But equally as important is that the private sector organizations reciprocate and understand the how, what and why of the law enforcement/public body process.
This mutual...
Since the phrase "Advanced Persistent Threat" (APT) was coined nearly ten years ago, it has been the subject of extensive discussion and debate in the IT security community, attracting terabytes-worth of media buzz. The spotlight on APT's has been critical of bringing the reality of today's threats to light, but the...
To date, the most common reaction to targeted attacks has been for organizations to just do what they have always been doing, but harder. That isn't going to work. We need to look at this problem differently and adopt a different set of thought processes. There is a great deal to be said for adopting a warlike...
Part 1 - Fraud Ecosystem
In June this year, the "Ronald Reagan" batch of credit cards (potentially those stolen from P.F. Chang's) joined the "Barbarossa" batch from Target in becoming publicly available for purchase. These cards were featured on the popular Rescator card shop (stolen card data marketplace), which...
In a keynote address at the RSA 2014 Conference, Kevin Mandia, founder of Mandiant, warns organizations to beware of "victim's fatigue," or letting your guard down after going six months without a breach.
In the second full day of RSA 2014, ISMG's editors record exclusive video interviews with Troy Leach of the PCI Council, Adam Sedgewick of NIST and Gartner's Avivah Litan. What insights do these thought-leaders share?
While much of the security focus is on online fraud and major data breaches, organizations of all sizes and sectors are seeing a rise in phone-based fraud, says Matt Anthony of Pindrop Security.
The Target retail POS breach is the most talked-about incident in recent memory - and it was entirely preventable with available security solutions, says Adam Tegg CEO of Wontok Solutions.
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