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Security professionals always look forward to Verizon’s analysis of the past year’s data breach activity. The 2019 Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) doesn’t disappoint. It details more than [...]

Despite a decline in the number of ransomware attacks over the past two years, there has been a dramatic increase in ransom demands.

Ransomware was once a blip on the cyber security radar, but times have changed: Ransomware attacks grew nearly 500 percent, to 3.8 million attacks, from 2014 to 2015. Ransomware has been [...]

A decade ago, Windows machines were perceived as the target of all malware. Today, malware is a threat to all platforms. Rather than one popular operating system being inherently more secure than [...]

2014 was a banner year for cyberattackers, but not security. The high-profile data breaches of last year prove that antivirus is not enough, and the numbers of spear-phishing and web-based [...]

When is a patch not a patch? When it becomes another exploit on your network. We sometimes lose sight of these obvious points when talking about patching and vulnerability management. At [...]

In the past, IT security was like insurance, viewed as an expense, not a revenue generator. That perception left IT with minimal dollars allocated to securing networks, data, and other assets. [...]

IT administrators have plenty of perimeter security tools at their disposal, from firewalls to spam filters to intrusion detection solutions. But despite all the preventative measures, most [...]

The number of devices that rely on network connectivity to do their jobs is skyrocketing -- mobile-connected devices will outnumber people in the world by the end of the year, according to Cisco. [...]

This post is part of a three-part series on ghost assets. The vast majority of IT environments are haunted. Large-scale infrastructures, by virtue of their operational requirements, value high [...]