| LATEST SECURITY NEWS & COMMENTARY | APT Attack Activity Occurs at 'Low, Consistent Hum,' Rapid7 Finds Organizations in industries aligned to nation-state interests are main targets of nation-state attack threats, new quarterly threat report shows. Users Overshare Sensitive Enterprise Data Survey finds nearly half of the employees trained to protect sensitive data engage in risky security practices. Cybercriminals Mostly Prefer Skype Messaging But cybercrime gangs worldwide are increasingly using encrypted peer-to-peer chat platforms for their communications outside online underground forums, new study finds. Ransomware, Mac Malware Dominate Q1 Threat Landscape Cerber, somewhat unexpectedly, emerged as the biggest ransomware threat, Malwarebytes found. Health Savings Account Fraud: The Rapidly Growing Threat As income tax season comes to a close, financially-motivated cybercriminals are honing new tactics for monetizing medical PII. Google Won't Trust Symantec and Neither Should You As bad as this controversy is for Symantec, the real damage will befall the company and individual web sites deemed untrustworthy by a Chrome browser on the basis of a rejected Symantec certificate. Advanced, Low-Cost Ransomware Tools on the Rise New offerings cost as little as $175 and come with lots of anti-detection bells and whistles. MORE NEWS & COMMENTARY | | |
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