The director of Britain's GCHQ intelligence agency said at this week's CyberUK conference that declassifying and putting "time-critical, secret information" for stopping online threats into the public's hands "in a matter of seconds" is an imperative.
Organizations face a variety of security challenges as they attempt to secure their environments from the ever-changing threat landscape. As they look to gain more insight from their security devices, while gaining improved speed to detect and respond, managed detection and response is becoming a go-to solution.
Facebook has fixed a security vulnerability in its digital marketplace that could have been abused to identify the precise location of a seller, and by extension, their goods. Police warn that thieves regularly trawl location data to find the owners and locations of high-value items.
Fraud, e-hustles and social engineering attacks continues to proliferate, the FBI's latest report into the state of internet crime confirms. But over the past year, a new FBI tactic for quickly stopping fraudulent wire transfers has notched notable successes.
In recent days, two major companies -Wipro and JustDial - did a poor job of communicating following data leaks. This points to the need for a strong breach notification law in India.
The discovery of an apparent data breach at Indian IT service firm Wipro could hurt the firm's reputation, as well as the reputation of other outsourcing companies, some observers say.
Because traditional tools are not helping in detecting threats or reducing noise, the need of the hour is a unified threat dashboard, says Vishak Raman, director of security business for India and SAARC at Cisco.
A nation-state sponsored espionage campaign dubbed "Sea Turtle" has been manipulating the domain name system to target more than 40 organizations, including intelligence agencies - especially in North Africa and the Middle East, Cisco Talos warns. Experts say defenses against DNS hijacking lag.
Four unprotected application program interfaces for JustDial, a local search engine in India, are leaking the personally identifiable information of its more than 100 million customers in real time, says an independent security researcher who discovered the vulnerability.
From blockchains and surveillance to backdoors and GDPR, a group of leading cryptographers rounded up the top cybersecurity and privacy matters of the day at the cryptographers' panel held at the recent RSA Conference 2019 in San Francisco.
To comply with Security and Exchange Board of India's recent cybersecurity guidelines for stock brokers and depository participants, the Bombay Stock Exchange has implemented a community security operations center, which will provide services to more than 1,000 member brokers.
Microsoft says intruders targeting its email services had access to email content for a single-digit percentage of the overall affected accounts, a more serious conclusion than first thought. But the company hasn't released many details, including the total number of accounts affected.
When it comes to browser security, one mistake made by consumers and enterprise alike is that they see the browser as a one-way window into the internet. The reality is quite different - and potentially costly if overlooked, says Pieter Arntz of Malwarebytes.
In the past, the relationship between cybersecurity and privacy has been uneasy and even ill-defined. But today, in the post-GDPR era, the relationship is clear, and so is the legal and compliance path forward, says David Ruiz of Malwarebytes.
Some security experts say India's government isn't doing enough to ensure the security of the Lok Sabha elections being held through May 23. They express worries that a nation-state, such as China or Pakistan, could attempt to tamper with the results.
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