Insights on Data Security & Threat Intelligence
Zeus, ZeuS, or Zbot; a Trojan horse computer malware, has been around for a long time. It is known that the Zeus bot sends out spam emails that contain an executable binary which will download and install a bot program into the affected machine. Recently, we detected a Zeus Bot
Tag, you’re it! Making the most of metadata Organization and classification has always stood at the forefront for business success. Information Governance requires commitment and a deep understanding of your businesses corporate culture, policies and procedures, and legacy data. Such knowledge only strengthens business structures increasing business performance. Metadata is
When applying the concept of trust to the security-as-a-service (SecaaS) delivery model, it is useful to think in terms of security history. With access to the Internet and email came viruses, spam drive-by downloads and phishing, and the corresponding perimeter security software and hardware to protect corporate systems. But, software
Last week, CYREN detected interesting emails that contained links to fake video pages. We have included a screenshot of the email. The rough translation of the subject line is “hidden camera in their house”, and the Youtube link looks like it might deliver the goods – but of course the
In the battle to defend against the ever-increasing volume and variety of threats, security solutions like firewalls, signature-based antivirus, and blacklisting may be ineffective. This is because the criminals know that the data that powers them may lag new threats by days or even weeks. Cybercriminals have now further raised
2015 will be another tough year in the continuing fight against cybercrime. Today’s Internet threat landscape is highly dynamic, as thousands of malicious actors disseminate hundreds of millions of global threats daily. While some actors are hacktivist organizations and even nation-states, the main threat remains that of well-funded cybercriminal gangs.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Resilient Network Systems, Inc., the leading provider of Trust Network solutions, today announced that the company has appointed the Honorable Billy Tauzin as member of their Board of Directors. (Source Link) Tauzin had a long and distinguished 34-year elective career culminating in chairing
Trust Networks support education systems’ compliance with new Federal and State legislation on data privacy (via Yahoo! Finance) SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27, 2015 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Resilient Network Systems, Inc., a leading provider of advanced access control and privacy solutions, and the National Laboratory for Education Transformation (NLET), a Silicon Valley non-profit dedicated to modern
Last week, the CYREN team detected a massive phishing attack on customers of the German bank Postbank, with more than 50,000 new phishing URLs detected within the first 24 hours. Phishing emails are traditionally sent to a massive group of people, in the hope that among the recipients are actual
