Andrew Shikiar, executive director at the FIDO Alliance, offers an update on the group's efforts to reduce reliance on passwords and discusses how to overcome barriers.
The internet of things (IoT) is exploding, and enterprise IoT is seeing massive growth as well. Every modern organization is using IoT devices to help run their business. Although IoT opens the door to unprecedented connectivity as well as innovative approaches and services, it also brings with it new cybersecurity...
Could your organization withstand an attack by the master hacking operation known as "Fxmsp"? Hollywood loves to portray hackers as having ninja-like skills. But Fxmsp often favored the simplest tools for the job, because they so often worked. Defenders: Take note.
This video highlights how visibility into the illicit communities where credentials are leaked can help organizations establish or refine password policies.
The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed a superseding indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that expands the scope of the government's case against him. Federal prosecutors now allege that Assange conspired with the Anonymous and LulzSec groups to obtain classified information to publish.
A hacking group dubbed CryptoCore has stolen more than $200 million in virtual currency from several cryptocurrency exchanges over the past two years, the security firm ClearSky Cyber Security reports.
Hackers wielding Nefilim ransomware are targeting unpatched or poorly secured Citrix remote-access technology, then stealing data, unleashing crypto-locking malware and threatening to dump data to try to force payment, New Zealand's national computer emergency response team warns.
To implement passwordless authentication, organizations need to integrate multifactor authentication with biometrics, says Abid Adam, group CISO and group head of privacy at Axiata, a telecommunications conglomerate based in Malaysia.
Consumers hate passwords, criminals love them. Most organizations today have an initiative to replace passwords with a modern approach that is both more convenient, and more secure. Completely eliminating password authentication across any channel and any device is a journey that takes time. Like major global...
Delivery Hero, the online food delivery service, has confirmed a data breach of its Foodora brand. Breached information includes personal details for 727,000 accounts - names, addresses, phone numbers, precise location data and hashed passwords - in 14 countries.
It is important to have contextual authentication in place to manage privileged as well as less privileged accounts in an organization, says Avinash Tiwari, CISO and head, information security, at Pidilite Industries, a large manufacturing firm.
Passwordless authentication is the way forward for organizations as it gives 99.9% proof against attackers, says Sanganagouda Dhawalgi, president, ACFE, India chapter.
Surveillance researchers at Citizen Lab have tied thousands of "Dark Basin" corporate espionage phishing attacks to a small Indian cybersecurity firm called BellTroX InfoTech Services. It's led by Sumit Gupta, who was indicted by the U.S. in 2015 for criminal hacking on behalf of private investigators.
A shift to passwordless authentication would help mitigate the risk of phishing attacks and identity theft, says Malaysia-based Shankar Krishnan, CISO and head of information security at Axiata Digital, who offers implementation insights.
As businesses settle into a hybrid world of on-prem, public cloud, private cloud infrastructure with security delivered as a service and all of this overlaid with the concept to Zero Trust, what is left? Companies will have the data they are trying to protect and the identity of the user trying to access something. As...
Our website uses cookies. Cookies enable us to provide the best experience possible and help us understand how visitors use our website. By browsing bankinfosecurity.in, you agree to our use of cookies.
