November brings two of the busiest shopping days of the year, plus some potential security risks, even if you never leave the comfort of your home. The annual Black Friday and Cyber Monday (BF/CM) events that originated in the United States have increasingly become a global phenomenon. With huge sales and “doorbuster” deals to kick off the holiday shopping season, they see a massive number of transactions.
Visa Payment Fraud Disruption (PFD) expects phishing attacks to increase between November 2023 and January 2024. Findings in its Holiday Edition Threats Report outline the popular fraud tactics predicted this holiday season. Expected Holiday Phishing Scams.
Another day, another warning about holiday scams! Lookout Inc., a data-centric cloud security company, is warning employees and businesses that phishing attacks are expected to more than double this week, based on historical data. With more corporate data residing in the cloud and a massive amount of employees still working remotely, mobile has become the endpoint of choice for the modern workforce.
Security researchers identify growth in the use of an ongoing cyberskimming campaign that involves compromising legitimate website checkout code. We’ve all seen a video that shows someone fidgeting with a credit card terminal only to pull off a very realistic molded cover that looks identical to the actual device beneath it complete with its own circuitry to read and store credit card swipes. Now take that very same idea and put it into the digital world.
A new analysis of the retail market’s threat landscape discusses the challenges faced by this industry and what threat tactics are being used to take advantage of retail’s cyber weaknesses. Not every report needs to have stats on the state of how bad things are. In fact, it’s quite refreshing for a report to simply state what kinds of attacks are transpiring and what the reader can do to mitigate such threats.
The latest report from UK Finance paints a mixed picture of financial fraud in the United Kingdom, with losses exceeding £500 million in the first half of the year. However, amidst these concerning figures, there is a glimmer of hope as cyber fraud rates have shown a slight 2% decrease from the previous year.
How many times have you heard “There is a skills gap in Cybersecurity!” If you go on social media, you’ll likely hear it at least once a day. The government is big on it, and organisations lament how difficult it is to find the ‘right talent’. But here’s some news for you... There is NO SKILLS GAP.
Staff time, log processing, and legacy issues can turn free, open-source or low-cost SIEMs into one of your organisation’s most expensive investments. You’re not alone if you’re baulking at the idea of paying upwards of tens of thousands of pounds for a new or renewed SIEM licence. Many security decision-makers feel the same way. One survey showed that almost half (40%) of existing SIEM users feel like they are overpaying for their SIEM.
An interview with David Morimanno (DJ), Sr. Advisory Manager at Integral Partners and Steve Tucker, Commercial Director at Xalient. A couple weeks ago Xalient sponsored Europe’s premier Identity and Access Management Conference, IDM. I attended with my colleague DJ from Integral Partners to network with C-level IAM leaders and to hear from peers and subject matter experts in the Identity space.
Kubernetes offers excellent scalability and flexibility to your infrastructure. Yet, in the midst of this transformation, we’ve all grappled with the difficulties of local IPv4 addressing which usually leads to the implementation of Network Address Translation (NAT) and unfolds complexities that we’d instead like to avoid. As if that weren’t enough, the scarcity of public IPv4 addresses and their expensive rental costs loom over our digital ambitions.
