“Artificial intelligence is the most important weapon against cybercrime.
IT teams are increasingly using Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a weapon in the fight against cybercrime. This is the result of research carried out by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company.
The survey was conducted among 4,000 security and IT professionals i... Read more
Windows file may contain all your documents, emails and passwords
If you have a Windows computer with a touch screen, there's a good chance that your device has been collecting sensitive data in recent months or even years. These include passwords and even complete e-mails.
That's what Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) security researcher Barnaby Ske... Read more
Facebook takes extra measures to prevent manipulation of elections
After the experiences of the previous American Presidential elections, in which fake news was disseminated on social media and attempts were made to hack into the accounts of political candidates and campaign employees, Facebook is now taking additional measures.
Facebook will come up with a pilot i... Read more
Easy CSS attack can crash any iPhone
A security researcher has found a new way to crash and restart iPhones. For that, he only needed a few lines of code. The code also works for iPads and MacBooks. In the latter case, Safari crashes when a user opens the link.
Security researcher Sabri Haddouche discovered the error in the Apple softw... Read more
Personal mobile devices pose the greatest risk within business networks
Personal mobile devices are the biggest threat to a business network. Although employees work from home, or like the BYOD principle, both pose a great risk to IT and security teams.
That's what a new investigation by Duo Security shows. The company interviewed one hundred British IT professionals an... Read more
Careless server configuration by Veeam exposed 200GB of data
Veeam, which specializes in data management related to the cloud, is the next company to expose consumer data by misconfiguring a cloud instance. It turns out that roughly 200 gigabytes of data from more than 440 million customers could be seen.
That's what security researcher Bob Diachenko writes ... Read more
British Airways was hacked by Magecart, the group that also attacked Ticketmaster…
Researchers from British Airways have discovered that the group that recently performed a large hack is the same one that attacked Ticketmaster. The Magecard Group has been active since 2015, when it was first discovered by researchers from RisqIQ and ClearSky.
The group regularly attacks webshops a... Read more
Google wants to get rid of the URL completely
Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), the online addresses that are a bit like one of the most important ways of surfing the Internet, have an important problem. Because they have a complex structure, malicious people can easily exploit them. Google wants to do something about that.
Now it is easy for a... Read more
Man remains the weakest link in any security system
People remain the weak link in any security system. A new investigation has shown that the vast majority of security incidents can be traced back to the personnel. In the case of a self-reported data breach, the chance is seven times greater that the leak is due to human error than that a hacker was... Read more
In 2019, more IT budget will be spent on cybersecurity.
Next year, the IT department of companies will have a larger budget. Most of the money will be spent on cyber security measures. Tech Pro Research reports this in a new research report. According to the report, more than half of the organisations will invest more money in the IT department.
By far t... Read more