CEO fraud, also known as whaling, is a sophisticated form of phishing in that targets an organization’s senior employees. More than 400 businesses are targeted by CEO fraud each day, with losses totalling almost $1 billion per year. Although the …
The Cyber Kill Chain is a popular framework that’s used for understanding and responding to information security incidents. It outlines the steps that organizations can take to trace the stages of a cyber attack, from a criminal’s reconnaissance efforts to …
The US government has released a national cybersecurity strategy that will shift the burden of responsibility for data protection towards software vendor and service providers. “We must rebalance the responsibility to defend cyberspace by shifting the burden for cybersecurity away …
It’s a question that’s being asked alarmingly often among organizations these days: how do we respond to this data breach? Cyber crime has skyrocketed in recent years, with businesses processes increasingly being conducted online, which has opened the door for …
GoDaddy is investigating a series of attacks on its infrastructure that it first learned about following customer complaints late last year. Website owners said that their sites were redirecting visitors to random domains in what later transpired to be a …
When an organization suffers a cyber attack, two types of judgment soon follow: a regulatory review and a public trial, with online commentators condemning the victim’s security practices and its ineffective response. But Reddit has flipped the script, being universally …
Organizations in the U.S. spent $9.44 million on average responding to cyberattacks last year, according to a Ponemon Institute report. This figure is more than double the global average, which leads us to ask why things are so bad in the …
Given the current state of the information security industry, there shouldn’t be any doubt that organizations must prioritize effective defence measures. According to one report, there were more than 1,000 publicly disclosed security incidents last year, while the average cost …
This Saturday marks Data Privacy Day, an international event that raises awareness about the risks when sharing our personal information online. Although many of us are broadly aware that organizations often our personal data can used in a variety of …
Your company has just been hacked. Awaiting you is hundreds of hours of work putting your network back together, investigating the damage, and dealing with affected customers. After all that, you may well have to defend a multimillion-dollar lawsuit. Now …
