Digital criminals resort to ransomware attacks, malvertising, DNS hijacking, and other techniques to prey upon organizations. These techniques commonly vary in prevalence based upon the economic sector. In a survey conducted by the Aite Group, for instance, 89 percent of executives at financial institutions said...
You’ve convinced the necessary parties to invest in improving your information security, examined your options, and selected and deployed a new cybersecurity solution. Even once you’re up and running, however, you might not feel completely secure. Is there anything you missed during deployment, which you...
Hurricane season 2019 is now upon us. Between now and mid-autumn, there will be storms whose devastation will disrupt people’s lives. Unfortunately, there will also be fraudsters who’ll attempt to capitalize on these disaster victims’ misery. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is well-aware of...
Digital threats facing federal entities are at an all-time high. This revelation was readily apparent in the findings of SolarWinds’ fifth annual Federal Cybersecurity Survey. Of the 200 IT security professionals in U.S. federal civilian and defense agencies surveyed, more than half (56 percent) of...
Much has been said about how employees can often be an organization’s most significant point of vulnerability when it comes to cybersecurity threats. A 2017 study found that 84% of respondents attributed the success of cyberattacks against their company, at least in part, to human...
Lastline is once again participating in Infosecurity Europe in London. And while there are numerous hot topics being discussed, cloud security quickly rose to the top. Migrating to the cloud and the security of those workloads are understandably a concern for many that are undergoing digital...
Two years ago, the world was paralyzed for several days, and news announcers introduced a new term to the public that many had never heard before: ransomware. The WannaCry cyberattack was the first genuinely global mass ransomware attack, and it skyrocketed the idea into the...
Digital threats are more numerous today than they were years ago. Illustrating this fact, Kaspersky Lab’s in-lab detection technologies identified 360,000 new threats each day in 2017. That figure is 11.5 percent more than 2016, and it represents the second year in a row where...
In part 2 of this 2-part blog post, we’ll discuss the essential characteristics of technologies that have proven effective for augmenting Secure Email Gateways (SEGs) and stopping email-based malware attacks. Please see part 1, which discusses the challenges of detecting advanced malware attacks using outdated...
This is part 1 of a 2-part blog post on email security solutions, that examines the challenges. Part 2 will discuss key characteristics of the solutions. Malware authors can simply alter the signature of their code to avoid detection by signature-based anti-malware tools. Because security tools...
