Probable Yahoo Breach Spotlights Risks of Free Email Services

IT Business Edge - It appears that the entire security world is waiting for Yahoo to make an announcement about one of the largest breaches yet. It’s expected to have affected at least (probably more than) 200 million user accounts. My inbox began flooding with the news first thing this...

Yahoo Confirms Hackers Stole at Least 500 Million Users’ Data in 2014

Security Management - ​Hackers stole at least 500 million Yahoo users’ account information in a breach two years ago, the company confirmed in an announcement Thursday afternoon. User information—including names, email addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, passwords, and in some cases security questions—was compromised in the breach, which occurred in...

Crysis ransomware attacking Australian businesses

CRN - Australian and New Zealand businesses are being hit with a ransomware campaign, according to Trend Micro. First detected in February, the ransomware, dubbed Crysis, is now targeting the two nations via remote desktop protocol (RDP) brute force attacks. The Crysis ransomware is spread through spam and targets are...

Crysis ransomware now attacking businesses in Australia and New Zealand

SC Magazine - Australian and New Zealand businesses are being hit with a ransomware campaign, according to Trend Micro. First detected in February, the ransomware, dubbed Crysis, is now targeting the two nations via remote desktop protocol (RDP) brute force attacks. The Crysis ransomware is spread through spam and targets...

Moving toward an intelligent hybrid security model

Help Net Security - Cyber attacks aren’t slowing down – in fact, 76 percent of organizations have experienced a breach within the last two years. Enterprises of all sizes, across every industry, are challenged to respond to increasingly complex and severe attacks – often only learning about the size, severity,...