Category: Security

The RSA Conference doesn’t openly advertise itself as the largest cybersecurity event, but it is certainly among the most overwhelming. That’s a matter of opinion, but it’s the opinion of many who survived last year’s conference. More than 42,000 information security professionals flocked to the Moscone Center in downtown San…

Cybercriminals made a lot of noise in 2017 with ransomware attacks like WannaCry and NotPetya, using an in-your-face approach to cyberattacks that netted them millions of dollars from victims. But new research from IBM X-Force, the threat intelligence, research and incident response arm of IBM Security, revealed that 2018 saw…

Even though they’ve been around for quite some time, phishing attacks continue to climb. According to Proofpoint’s 2019 “State of the Phish Report,” 83 percent of businesses experienced a phishing attack and 64 percent of security professionals encountered spear phishing threats in 2018. New vectors are also emerging: As noted…

For almost 15 years now, companies have been using the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) to determine the criticality of security vulnerabilities. Ten is the highest score, meaning the most severe, while zero is the lowest. Over time, the CVSS has become something of a de facto industry standard used…