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Home working scams on the rise, watchdog warns

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US citizens are being increasingly targeted by work-from-home scams in the wake of the COVID pandemic, according to an NGO that helps local businesses. The Better Business Bureau (BBB), which...

EU member states agree to implement tougher cybersecurity measures across the union

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The European Parliament and EU member states agreed on stricter cybersecurity measures for entities belonging to critical sectors. Following the first directive known as NIS, the implemented cybersecurity rules had...

Ransomware Deals Deathblow to 157-year-old College

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Why a private college that stayed in business for 157 years had to close after the combo of COVID-19 and ransomware proved too much. Illinois-based Lincoln College was established during...

Novel ‘Nerbian’ Trojan Uses Advanced Anti-Detection Tricks

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The stealthy, feature-rich malware has multistage evasion tactics to fly under the radar of security analysis, researchers at Proofpoint have found. A newly discovered and complex remote access trojan (RAT)...

You Can’t Eliminate Cyberattacks, So Focus on Reducing the Blast Radius

Tony Lauro, director of security technology and strategy at Akamai, discusses reducing your company’s attack surface and the “blast radius” of a potential attack. Lately, I’ve started wondering if...

Is the US headed for the Great Exfiltration?

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The huge spike in voluntary resignations at the height of the COVID pandemic could have unforeseen consequences for cybersecurity across American organizations, with seven in ten firms admitting they...