SEC Proposes New Cybersecurity Rules for Financial Services

Proposed new policies from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) could spell changes for how financial services firms handle cybersecurity. On Feb. 9, the SEC voted to propose cybersecurity risk management policies for registered investment advisers, registered investment companies and business development companies (funds). Next, the proposal will go through…

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What Are the Biggest Phishing Trends Today?

According to the 2022 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, phishing was the most common way that cyber criminals got inside an organization. Typically, they do so to launch a much larger attack such as ransomware. The Index also found that phishing was used in 41% of the attacks that X-Force remediated…

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Electron Application Attacks: No Vulnerability Required

While you may have never heard of “Electron applications,” you most likely use them. Electron technology is in many of today’s most popular applications, from streaming music to messaging to video conferencing applications. Under the hood, Electron is essentially a Google Chrome window, which developers can modify to look however…

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