The U.S. Secret Service is combining its electronic and financial crimes units into a single task force that will focus on investigating cyber-related financial crimes, such as BEC schemes and ransomware attacks. The move comes as lawmakers push for the Secret Service to take a more active role in fighting cybercrime.
Rossella Mattioli, a network and information security expert at ENISA, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, discusses a new report offering insights on detecting network security incidents.
Enterprises need to move away from manual threat detection methods to leverage artificial intelligence, which can help boost defenses, says Dr. Jassim Haji, president of Artificial Intelligence Society, Bahrain Chapter.
Organizations deploying deception technology must make sure to integrate it with other technologies to reap the full benefits of intrusion alerts, says Anuj Tewari, global CISO at IT Services HCL Technologies.
Researchers at MIT and the University of Michigan have uncovered multiple security flaws in the online voting platform OmniBallot which could allow hackers to access and manipulate voter data. The platform is currently in use in three states for military personnel and disabled residents.
The National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command are ramping up to offer security protection during the presidential election in November. The program, called Cyber 9-Line, will be utilizing National Guard troops trained in cybersecurity.
Perceived wisdom is that mobile voting will be open to significant opportunities for interception, manipulation and nation-state interference. Nimit Sawney, CEO of Voatz, describes the architecture of a secure mobile voting system.
A U.S. Senate report found that three Chinese telecommunications firms operated in the United States for two decades without proper oversight from the federal agencies that were assigned to provide security guidance and advice to the Federal Communications Commission.
Several U.S. energy providers have been targeted by a spear-phishing campaign attempting to spread a recently discovered Trojan called FlowCloud, according to Proofpoint research. The analysts have found connections between these attacks and another campaign using malware called LookBack.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a new series of cybersecurity challenges for election officials across the U.S., including concerns about the security of mail-in ballots and vulnerable networks for local election workers still working from home, according to a new report.
The prolific Maze ransomware gang has been tied to yet more attacks, including against Singapore-based defense contractor ST Engineering's North American subsidiary, VT San Antonio Aerospace. Separately, the ransomware gang breached systems at nuclear missile contractor Westech.
Purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs) have been foundational components to many organizations' backup/recovery infrastructure for more than a decade. The importance of PBBAs is illustrated in the numbers: According to IDC, in 2019, the data replication and protection (DR&P) market was approximately $9.2 billion,...
The cloud-native containerized applications that have emerged over the last decade
were originally used for stateless web services. But today, cloud native applications
have matured, and along with advanced container orchestrator capabilities, we are
seeing customers deploy both stateless and stateful workloads in...
This ESG Lab Review documents the results of extensive performance testing conducted on the Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) and a competitive server grid appliance technology solution. Testing focused on the ability of each solution to efficiently protect virtual environments at...
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes why cyberattacks against banks have surged in recent weeks. Plus: The increasingly ruthless tactics of ransomware gangs; cybersecurity strategies for small businesses.
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