Cybersecurity

Manufacturing and industrial sectors are becoming bigger cyber-targets, and many of the intrusions are coming from China. Those are among the sobering takeaways from a report Tuesday by Ontinue’s Advanced Threat Operations ...

Frances Haugen, who famously blew the whistle on Facebook and its susceptibility to manipulation, has renewed concerns over the social-networking company. This time, she’s laser-focused on misinformation during the 2024 presidential election ...

SaaS breaches are on the rise, and nearly half the corporate victims have more than 2,500 employees. Those are among the sobering conclusions from a survey of security experts at 644 organizations ...

As cybersecurity experts make their way to the one-armed bandits and scorching heat in Las Vegas for Black Hat USA 2024 next week, the specter of the CrowdStrike Inc. debacle looms large ...

A data breach. Headlines scream, investors and customers panic, fingers get pointed, and goodwill gets affected.  Do you know how much a data breach can affect a company? Data breaches... The post ...

This week, I hosted the seventeenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior at the Harvard Kennedy School. This is the first workshop since our co-founder, Ross Anderson, died unexpectedly. SHB is a ...

One of the most critical yet often overlooked aspects of cybersecurity is the timely patching of vulnerabilities. While much attention is given to sophisticated phishing attacks and the menace of password brute-forcing, ...

Palo Alto Networks is acquiring the QRadar SaaS offerings from IBM, and then will migrate users to its Cortex XSIAM SOC delivered as a cloud service ...

Last week, the Internet dodged a major nation-state attack that would have had catastrophic cybersecurity repercussions worldwide. It’s a catastrophe that didn’t happen, so it won’t get much attention—but it should. There’s ...

The cybersecurity world got really lucky last week. An intentionally placed backdoor in XZ Utils, an open-source compression utility, was pretty much accidentally discovered by a Microsoft engineer—weeks before it would have ...