A skillful black hat hacker can quickly assume control of your digital products with just a few swift modifications to its coding, and as businesses continue to digitize their processes, this risk of penetration will only multiply. The solution is the adoption of secure coding practices. Secure coding is a method of writing software and source code that's shielded from cyber attacks.
The question is indeed a contentious one, never failing to incite heated arguments from all camps. Many ways exist to cut the cake in this regard—WhiteHat Security took a stab at it in a recent edition of its Website Security Statistics Report, where it analyzed statistics around web programming languages and their comparative strengths in security.
You're woken by your phone erupting with notifications. You drowsily reach for it and find a barrage of messages from frustrated clients complaining about your website. You try to load your website but you're met with a frightful "service unavailable" message. You could be a victim of a DDoS attack. A Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS attack) is the process of sending an overwhelming amount of data requests to a web server with the intention of impeding its performance.
Whether you’re deploying hundreds of Windows servers into the cloud through code, or handbuilding physical servers for a small business, having a proper method to ensure a secure, reliable environment is crucial to success. Everyone knows that an out-of-the-box Windows server may not have all the necessary security measures in place to go right into production, although Microsoft has been improving the default configuration in every server version.
People fall victim to internet scams, not because they're exceedingly credulous, but because scammer efforts are becoming more and more believable. Now, cybercriminals can leverage your hard-earned reputation by sending emails that appear to come from your business. Victims of this spoofing attack could suffer irrevocable reputation damage or get their IP address blacklisted, putting an instant end to all online business activities.
Since stepping into the cybercriminal arena in September 2020, the Egregor group has penetrated over 71 businesses globally, including recruitment giant Randstad and US retailer Kmart. But who is the Egregor group and how have they managed to rise up as a significant cyber threat in just a few short months? Egregor is a cybercriminal group specializing in a unique branch of ransomware attacks.
Since ransomware was founded in 1996, many ransomware gangs have attempted and failed to quake the cybersecurity landscape. But some have broken through and even rearranged it with their obfuscatory cyberattack methods. Netwalker ransomware is an example of such a success. Within its first six months of operation, the ransomware gang received more than $25 million in ransom payments. What is Netwalker ransomware and why is it so lethal? To learn more, read on.
Cybersecurity is in the news again with the disclosure that Tesla, working in conjunction with the FBI, prevented a ransomware attack from being launched at its Gigafactory in Nevada. The cybercriminals targeted Tesla through one of its employees, whom they allegedly promised to pay $1 million in order to help them infect the company’s system with malware.
By 2025 the amount of data stored in the cloud by both governments, organizations, and individuals will exceed 75 Zettabytes – an estimated 49% of the world’s 175 zettabytes of data at that time. This trend has no doubt been accelerated by COVID, as organizations have been forced to shorten cloud migration timeframes to ensure business continuity during the pandemic.
Does your organization consider working with a MSSP? Don’t make a commitment before reading our article about how to choose the right MSSP for you! Regardless of the reason why you decide to work with an MSSP, you must be very careful and fastidious when selecting a MSSP for your organization. In this article, we will discuss what you need to consider before making a commitment.
