You should place a fraud alert if you believe you are a victim of fraud or may become one, if you are a victim of identity theft or if you want to prevent your identity from being stolen. You don’t necessarily have to be a victim of fraud to place a fraud alert, you can also place a fraud alert as a security precaution. Continue reading to learn more about what a fraud alert is, how it differs from a credit freeze and how to place a fraud alert on your credit report.

Information security requirements and standards are in a constant state of evolution. Recent issues, such as COVID-19 and the growing global reliance on mobile devices and remote work solutions, have played important roles in this ongoing transformation. At the same time, the increasing sophistication of cyber attackers has added new layers of complexity to the cybersecurity landscape.

Relationship-based Access Control (ReBAC) is a common requirement when applying Policy as Code controls in modern applications. Consider sharing a document with a collaborator in a different organization. As the collaborator is in another organization, it might be hard to grant them a pre-defined internal role without granting more permissions than needed – if indeed an external identity can be bound to an internal role at all. This is where ReBAC comes in.

An identity-based attack is a type of cyber attack that targets and compromises the digital identity of individuals and organizations. In this type of attack, a cybercriminal tries to steal, alter and misuse an individual’s identity-related information such as their login credentials, domain names, personal data or digital certificates.

On November 25, the U.S. municipal water authority in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania confirmed that one of its booster stations had suffered an attack by a threat actor group that supports Iranian geopolitical interests. The attack by a cyber group known as CyberAv3ngers compromised a programmable logic controller (PLC) for a water pressure monitoring and regulation system. Officials, however, have made it clear that the incident did not threaten local drinking water or water supplies.

On July 26, the U.S. Security & Exchange Commission (SEC) announced several new cybersecurity rules, taking affect mid-December 2023, that will significantly impact all U.S. organizations (and foreign entities doing business in the U.S.) that must follow SEC regulations. Although the announcement did not generate a ton of fanfare off the normal business and cybersecurity sites, the rules will greatly increase resource requirements and actions.

New data shows how the overwhelming majority of phishing attacks on financial institutions dwarf every other industry sector by as much as a factor of 30-to-1. It’s no secret that banks and other types of financial institutions hold all the money, so it should be no surprise that's where cybercriminals focused their malicious activities last year, according to Group IB’s Digital Risk Trends 2023 report.

Researchers at McAfee warn that attackers are increasingly utilizing PDF attachments in email phishing campaigns. “Over the last four months, McAfee Labs has observed a rising trend in the utilization of PDF documents for conducting a succession of phishing campaigns,” the researchers write. “These PDFs were delivered as email attachments. Attackers favor using PDFs for phishing due to the file format’s widespread trustworthiness.".

East River Medical Imaging (ERMI) has three locations in New York City and Westchester County. ERMI is a “multi-modality radiology center,” including patient-centered solutions like MRIs, CTs, ultrasounds, imaging, radiology, fluoroscopy, and x-rays. They have served New York since 1970 and have a long history of high-quality patient care. At the end of August, an unauthorized actor accessed their network—exposing sensitive information from employees and patients.

Forescout Vedere Labs has identified a total of 21 new vulnerabilities affecting Sierra Wireless AirLink cellular routers and some of its open source components such as TinyXML and OpenNDS, which are used in a variety of other products.