Insights on Data Security & Threat Intelligence
Corporate Compliance Insights Guest Post 3 Hidden Traps Associated With GDPR Avoiding the Challenges to Ensure Compliance From the Corporate Compliance Insights Blog:Many companies aren’t ready for the looming GDPR deadline, and they face real hurdles in getting to “compliant.” FileFacets, an enterprise analytics and privacy compliance platform that makes
It shouldn’t surprise anybody to learn that cybercriminals are taking their lead from some established business service models. We wrote about Botnet distribution services here, and the concepts apply equally to other corners of the malware “industry.” In February 2016, the “Cerber” ransomware first appeared in the form of Ransomware-as-a-Service
With the recent return of Locky and continued growth of ransomware and ransomware-as-a-service, there is a good chance you personally know an individual or company that has experienced such an attack or another similar threat. If you work in the computer or security industry, you might also often be asked
What is PII? What Should We Do About It? Dreams and fantasies are often referred to as “pie in the sky” thinking—nice to ponder, but, realistically speaking, not likely to happen. A generation ago we would have thought the digitization of info would usher in a Utopian paperless age when
If you want to know what a cyber-war looks like, read the news. And if you want to get up to speed quickly and try to make sense of all that news, I recommend downloading our new special report on malware, with a special nod to the included interview of
Trickbot is back, new and improved, and was found targeting customers of Lloyds Bank of the UK last week in a renewed phishing campaign intended to steal online banking users’ security codes. The updated version of the malware, which first appeared last year, uses new techniques to make it even
Botnets have become a trend in 2022 and will likely continue to be a threat in 2023. According to Spamhaus’s Q4 2021 Botnet Threat Update, they reported there was a 23% increase in botnet C&C attacks from Q3 to Q4 in 2021. Additionally, there were 300,000 instances of Emotet
Join us for the webinar “Identity & Data Governance – 5 Steps to Reliable and Accurate Compliance in the Cloud” on August 3rd at 2 pm ET | 1 pm CT | 11 am PT | 6pm GMT. Identity and Security Compliance experts will review how Identity and Data can
Although the term ‘botnet’ is generally associated with cybercrime and maliciousness, it should come as no surprise that there are, in fact, fully legitimate and entirely useful botnets—better known as “distributed computing systems”—at work around the globe. In fact, someone you know may even have willingly allowed their computer
