20% of businesses have never changed their default passwords on privileged accounts, and 30% allow accounts and passwords to be shared.
MIT Hit with a Series of DDoS Campaigns
An investigation by Akamai SIRT revealed that close to 43% of attack vectors leveraged included DDoS reflection and amplification.
#RackspaceSolve Board Needs to Understand Security to Adopt Cloud
The security and cloud balance is less of an issue now, as security becomes a boardroom issue.
Fake Play Store Apps Milk Info and Money From Victims
Eset warns users: ‘if it’s too good to be true it usually is’
Fake Play Store Apps Milk Info and Money From Victims
Eset warns users: ‘if it’s too good to be true it usually is’
Nation State Energy Grid Malware Bypasses Cyber and Physical Security
SentinelOne spots new threat on Dark Web
There’s No Such Thing as an Illegal War
George Friedman, Mauldin Econ. The national interests of the US, Russia, China, France, and Britain inevitably diverge. Since the founding of the UN, each nation has waged war, or supported…
Why Obama Must Pardon Gen. David Petraeus
Mike Galloucis, W. Times Anyone who served in the military understands the underlying principle of getting the bottom line up front. Because in a war zone there is always a chance the…
Is Terrorism Getting Worse?
Uri Friedman, The Atlantic These days, terrorism seems not just more lethal and more common, but more widespread. The death toll in recent weeks speaks for itself: 22 people dead in…
cuteRansomware Signals a Malicious Move to the Cloud
cuteRansomware launches from Google Docs to host the decryption key and command-and-control functionality.