Patch or perish, March edition: Microsoft releases fixes for 65 new vulnerabilities, including two that are being exploited in the wild. Also, Adobe issues updates for Photoshop and Digital Editions following a critical fix for a ColdFusion flaw that was being exploited in the wild.
As cyberattacks get more sophisticated, there is a growing need for detection and response to address these emerging threats, says Dan Schiappa of Sophos.
Machine learning can play an important role in fraud prevention at financial institutions, says Marc Trepanier of ACI Worldwide, who addresses the challenges involved.
The need for enhanced mobile application security is being driven by increasingly powerful mobile devices and ubiquitous availability of bandwidth, says John Aisien, CEO, Blue Cedar.
Officials in Jackson County, Georgia, along with the FBI are investigating a ransomware attack that crippled IT systems over a two-week period and reportedly led local officials to pay a bitcoin ransom worth $400,000 to restore systems and infrastructure.
CISOs need to work with partners in other departments to help ensure the success of major security projects, says John Pescatore, the director of the SANS Institute, who spoke at RSA Conference 2019.
Although organizations need to worry about phishing, malware and other inbound threats, they also must be aware that social media accounts pose an increasing risk - and they need to be monitored and locked down, says Otavio Freire of SafeGuard Cyber.
Small and midsize organizations are no less vulnerable to cyberattacks than large enterprises. Dan Smith of Zeguro outlines an approach for these organizations that fuses cybersecurity with insurance.
Four business sectors - hospitals, banks, securities firms and market infrastructure providers - potentially face the most significant financial impact from cyberattacks that could lead to a weakened credit profile, according to a new report from Moody's Investors Service.
Identity and access management is more complicated when organizations rely on a cloud infrastructure, says Brandon Swafford, CISO at Waterbury, Connecticut-based Webster Bank, who describes the challenges in an interview.
Facebook is edging closer to launching its own cryptocurrency, with a rollout expected this year, The New York Times reports. But some critics argue that the project seems more like a trendy and unnecessary redressing of a PayPal-like system with a blockchain.
Just days after Drupal warned of a "highly critical" flaw in its web services modules, hackers came calling, exploiting the content management system vulnerability to install cryptocurrency miners and other malicious software on sites, security experts warn.
Patch alert: Some versions of the popular content management system Drupal have a "highly critical" flaw that attackers can exploit to remotely execute code. The Drupal project team has released updates to fix the problem, which is already being targeted by hackers.
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