Historically targeting the financial sector, and first observed in 2014 as a banking trojan, Emotet remains an active and credible threat to organizations across all industries worldwide and, whilst retaining some core data stealing capabilities, has evolved to act as a downloader for secondary malicious payloads.
Every company outsources parts of its operations to multiple suppliers. Those suppliers, in turn, outsource their operations to other suppliers. This is fourth party risk. The risk to your company posed by suppliers' suppliers. Confusing, isn't it? The best way to frame it with a case study, so please read on! You help look after Information Security at a manufacturing company. Your company has got a policy for everything, including the policy to regularly maintain all the policies.
According to the 2019 Cost of Data Breach Report from Ponemon Institute and IBM Security, the global average cost of a data breach has grown by 12 percent in the last five years to $3.92 million. This was driven by the multi-year financial impact of breaches, increased regulation and the difficult process of resolving cyber attacks.
The 10-second version is this: Digital resilience is a fundamental change in understanding and accepting the true relationship between technology and risk. IT risk (or cyber risk, if you prefer) is actually business risk, and always has been.
Full stack development is all the rage these days, and for good reason: developers with both front-end web development skills and back-end/server coding prowess clearly offer substantially more value to their respective organizations. The ability to traverse the entire stack competently also makes interacting and cooperating with operations and security an easier affair—a key tenet of DevOps culture.
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.
