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Hajime Malware Infects Tens of Thousands of IoT Devices
The Hajime malware family, which was first uncovered [PDF] by Rapidity Networks researchers last fall, is increasingly competing with the Mirai botnet to infect Internet of Things (IoT) devices.…
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Cybercriminals See 95 Percent Profit from DDoS Attacks
According to a recent Kaspersky Lab report, attackers who demand a ransom in return for not launching a DDoS attack (or to call off an attack in progress) can earn…
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Fully 84 Percent of Hackers Leverage Social Engineering in Cyber Attacks
A recent Nuix survey of 70 hackers at DEFCON 2016 found that 84 percent of respondents use social engineering as part of their attack strategy, and 50 percent change their…
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74 Percent of Companies that Suffer a Data Breach Don’t Know How It Happened
According to the results of a recent survey [PDF] of 250 IT professionals, 34 percent of companies in the U.S. were breached in the past year, and 74 percent of…
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74 Percent of Organizations Using Two-Factor Authentication Face User Complaints
A recent?SecureAuth?survey of 300 cyber security professionals or IT decision makers found that 74 percent of respondents who use two-factor authentication (2FA) said they receive complaints about 2FA from their…
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69 Percent of Companies Have Suffered Data Loss Due to Employee Turnover
According to the results of a recent Osterman Research survey of 187 IT and/or HR decision makers, fully 69 percent of respondents have suffered significant data loss resulting from employees…
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Two-Thirds of Americans Think They’re Tech Savvy… But They’re Not
A recent survey of 2,056 U.S. consumers found that two-thirds of them see themselves as tech savvy, and 75 percent are concerned about their security and privacy online. Still, the…
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48 Percent of Companies Don’t Inspect the Cloud for Malware
A recent survey of 643 IT and IT security practitioners in the U.S. and Canada found that fully 48 percent of respondents don’t inspect the cloud for malware, and another…
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M&A Due Diligence, Cyber Security, and the Massive Yahoo Data Breach
Yahoo! Inc. recently announced that at least 500 million users’ names, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdates, hashed passwords, and in some cases encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers were…
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62 Percent of Employees Have Access to Data They Shouldn’t Be Able to See
According to the results of a recent survey of 3,027 employees in the U.S., U.K., France and Germany (1,371 end users and 1,656 IT professionals), fully 62 percent of end…
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