CISA added the Ransomware Readiness Assessment module to the CSET toolset to assist organizations of varying maturity levels to assess their cybersecurity posture against attacks.
Cyber Security
Cyber criminals, state-sponsored hackers and even the occasional disgruntled employee are constantly looking to gain unauthorized access for a variety of purposes: theft of money, cyber espionage, personal information for sale or for use in scams, and damage to critical infrastructure for just a few of the most common.
So how does an organization mitigate an entire world full of continual cyber attacks? Just as buildings have a number of necessary elements of physical security: access control, cameras, alarms and so on; there are similar key elements of cyber security that are absolutely vital for just about any modern business.
It starts with identifying and closing the most common doors that attackers use. For example, phishing attacks on employees are far and away the most common initial point of entry. The breach of even a low-level employee account can quickly turn into an escalation in access privileges and the ability to reach sensitive information. This is also true of smart devices, which are generally more poorly secured than computers and phones.
Lyca Mobile said the service disruption caused by the cyber attack “impacted some national and international calling” in all 60 countries in which it operated except for the United States, Australia, Ukraine and Tunisia.
Sprint claims recent data breach will not cause risk to fraud or identify theft but the compromised customer information could lead to SIM swap attacks and allow attackers to take over victim’s accounts.
The fact that phishing attacks have been on the rise is no secret. One of the most interesting developments is that malicious emails are now being timed to coincide with the "mid-afternoon slump" common to office workers.
User activity monitoring and insider threat detection is evolving to get ahead of the ever increasing threat to user data. Providing advanced analytics, insightful intelligence, and effective response mechanisms, it addresses three critical components of data security in 2019.
When surveys show that 70% of SOC analysts experience burnout that adversely impacts their home lives, and 24% of CISOs are actively looking to leave their positions, we can't afford to dance around this topic or sugarcoat our reality.
A Cloudflare CDN flaw that can expose some location data to an attacker was patched before being ethically disclosed, but the security researcher that discovered it says that the trick still works with the use of a VPN service and some extra steps.
What should you do if you knew today that a serious data breach would most likely lead to a string of public relations disasters, costing you millions, taking up 20% of the average IT staff day for two years?
A new system of warrants grants Australian police broad powers to infiltrate and even modify the online accounts of suspected cybercriminals, in the name of combating dark web transactions and anonymization.
A new study from Chainalysis finds that crypto crimes are proving more lucrative than ever for organized criminal gangs, but that illicit activity overall only saw a slight raise from its record low levels in 2021.










