Russian citizen Roman Valerevich Seleznev, 32, has been convicted of stealing data from more than 2 million U.S. payment cards and defrauding 3,700 financial institutions of at least $169 million.
Why is the Asia-Pacific region lagging far behind Europe and the United States in detecting data breaches? Rob van der Ende, vice president at FireEye's Mandiant, analyzes the results of the firm's new M-Trends Report 2016 for the Asia-Pacific Region and pinpoints breach detection shortcomings.
To keep up with emerging threats, banks and other organizations in Saudi Arabia and throughout the region must develop much more mature incident response functions, says Mohammed Almozaiyn, who heads incident response for a leading Saudi bank.
Many Asia-Pacific organizations are woefully unprepared to detect and respond to data breaches, according to Mandiant's M-Trends Report 2016. In fact, the report finds that the median amount of time it takes to discover an attack in the region is 520 days.
A UAE-based activist targeted by a rare and valuable remote exploit for Apple's mobile software has caused concern over the continued sale of powerful spying tools to governments with poor human rights records.
Cisco has begun releasing updates for all ASA devices to patch them against a buffer overflow vulnerability that was targeted by leaked Equation Group attack tools. Attackers can exploit the flaw to gain remote control of ASA devices.
The process of managing software vulnerabilities inside the enterprise is complicated by the sheer number of patches that must be assessed, applied, tested and rolled out, says Wolfgang Kandek of Qualys, who offers suggestions on how to better focus those efforts.
If leading intelligence agencies can seemingly hack a wide variety of IT gear, what hope is there for enterprise security? Experts describe how organizations should respond to the recent dump of attack tools from the Equation Group, which is widely believed to be tied to the NSA.
Ransomware gangs increasingly target organizations - including hospitals and banks - that might be able to recover from such attacks, but not in a timely manner, says Verizon's Mark Rasch. Learn how well-honed incident response plans can help.
Too often when organizations get shaken down by online criminals, they panic, and in the process make the predicament they're facing even worse, warns digital forensic investigator Ondrej Krehel in this video interview.
The surge in data breaches and the pervasiveness of malware, especially ransomware, has led to a surge in security technology startup firms, which makes it much tougher for CISOs to choose the right business partners in the overcrowded marketplace, argues Raimund Genes, CTO at Trend Micro.
In this video interview, Global Cyber Alliance CEO Phil Reitinger explains how the vastness and complexity of the internet creates cyber vulnerabilities, but one day those same characteristics, if used properly, could mitigate cyber threats.
Indian organisations are easy prey for Pakistani hackers who are defacing their websites and sometimes also blocking transactions. But law enforcement is finding it challenging to crack down on foreign hackers because of uncertainty over which Indian laws apply.
Two different of ransomware - new DetoxCrypto as well as a Hidden Tear variant - now sport a Pokémon Go theme. Both lock systems and demand a ransom, payable in bitcoins.
The Equation Group tools released by the Shadow Brokers have revealed that the U.S. National Security Agency has been able to decrypt any traffic sent using a Cisco PIX device. While Cisco no longer supports the devices, more than 15,000 remain in use.
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