Apple's advice to always use strong passwords and two-factor authentication ignores that image hackers are bypassing those controls - and celebrities aren't the only victims. Here's what needs to change.
Cybersecurity researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute are developing a tool known as BlackForest that amasses information from the Internet to give organizations an early warning of a pending cyber-attack.
An incident involving hackers posting false "news" on The Wall Street Journal's Facebook page demonstrates again why organizations must ramp up efforts to protect social media accounts to avoid reputational harm.
A hacker who pleaded guilty to infiltrating law enforcement computer networks across the U.S. has been charged once again, this time with breaching a helpdesk company that supports companies such as Twitter.
Security experts say a newly reported flaw in open-source authorization services, which has been named Covert Redirect, doesn't appear to pose as big a risk as the Heartbleed bug.
Microsoft has confirmed unauthorized access to certain employees' e-mail accounts following targeted phishing attacks. Find out what kind of documents the hackers accessed.
To avoid the risk of staff using social media to communicate about patients, healthcare organizations need to offer more secure alternatives, says security and privacy expert Andrew Hicks.
Technology is the biggest challenge to ethics and compliance in organizations today, says Deloitte's Keith Darcy. "We have the capacity to do things before we ever consider the ethical consequences ..."
Hackers have pilfered some 2 million user passwords and credentials for Facebook and other social media and Internet sites, according to IT security provider Trustwave. The hackers attacked computers in about 100 nations.
Twitter's announcement that it's adding "forward secrecy" encryption to its sites should serve as a reminder that organizations need to continually assess the risks to their organization, experts say.
Twitter's IPO filing sheds light on the social media company's perceived security risks. For example, it acknowledges the challenge of preparing for evolving cyberthreats.
As organizations use social media to grow their online presence, questions of ownership become an increasing concern, says Alan Brill of Kroll, who advises organizations on how to mitigate risks.
As social media use grows, so do the risks of organizations getting caught up in costly legal disputes over ownership and assets. Alan Brill of Kroll advises on how to mitigate such risks.
Social media is the modern Pandora's box: It has had a meteoric rise as a tool to interact and engage with customers, but also a dark underside, exposing companies to new types of risk. Almost two-thirds of companies surveyed say that social media is a significant or critical risk to their brand reputation, yet 60% of...
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