Logs are the cornerstone in today’s cybersecurity monitoring, investigation, and forensics. According to a Fortune 500 report, an organization’s IT infrastructure can generate up to 10 Terabytes of log data per month. In this post, we will learn about log aggregation and monitoring; then analyze how they can help businesses to strength their cybersecurity posture.
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. What a week of news this has been, more MageCart, a few large take downs, and some surprising breaches. We start with a first, the first ‘hack’ from space.
Google's Project Zero security researchers recently revealed that they found several malicious sites that planted malware onto people's iPhones for years. Researchers claim that if iPhone users visited one of the hacked websites, their messages, photos, and location data could have been compromised by hackers.
Sensitive data is information that must be protected against unauthorized access. Access to sensitive data should be limited through sufficient data security and information security practices designed to prevent unauthorized disclosure and data breaches. Your organization may have to protect sensitive data for ethical or legal requirements, personal privacy, regulatory reasons, trade secrets and other critical business information.
A data leak is when sensitive data is accidentally exposed physically, on the Internet or any other form including lost hard drives or laptops. This means a cyber criminal can gain unauthorized access to the sensitive data without effort.
Personally identifiable information (PII) is data that could identify a specific individual. Information that can be used to distinguish an individual's identity from another or be used to deanonymize anonymous data is also considered PII. While PII has several formal definitions, think of it as any information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact or locate a particular person.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg claimed this week that a serious cyberattack on one member country would trigger a response from all member countries. Stoltenberg claims such an event would trigger a 'collective defense commitment', known commonly as Article 5, an attack on one member of NATO is an attack on all of its members. Article 5 has been involved once in its history - in response to the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.
This article will give you insights into the common PayPal hoaxes circulating these days. Additionally, you will learn how to keep your payment experience safe when using the popular service in question.
Trend Micro recently releases its 2019 Mid Year Security Roundup: Evasive Threats, Pervasive Effective and found that organizations are dealing with a wide range of security threats, from ransomware and malware to phishing and high impact vulnerabilities.
