Fun Factor Aside, 'Hacking Back' Carries Legal RisksMalware researcher Ivan Kwiatkowski unleashed ransomware on tech-support scammers after his parents stumbled across a site warning they'd been infected by Zeus. Despite the feel-good... Read more »
Code is Likely Legit, But a Bit Sloppy, Experts SayAn unparalleled mystery has piqued the security community's curiosity. A group calling itself the "Shadow Brokers" claims to have stolen code and exploits... Read more »
Has the US Long Known About the Vulnerabilities?The Equation Group leak revealed a zero-day flaw in Cisco's firewall software - a patch is being prepped - as well as a vulnerability in... Read more »
NICE Actimize's Mary Ann Miller on Banks' Emerging StrategiesBanks need to develop customer authentication strategies that meet demand for strong security as well as convenience, says Mary Ann Miller of NICE Actimize,... Read more »
Dump May Reveal Russian, US Intelligence Agencies Openly Squaring OffScant doubt remains that a set of code and exploits - leaked by the "Shadow Brokers" hacking group - belongs to the Equation... Read more »
Hear ISMG editors untangle the various elements in the Shadow Brokers-Equation Group saga, evaluate a new anti-ransomware tool and reflect on the 10th anniversary of the PCI Security Standards Council in this... Read more »
As new schemes from hackers get more disruptive and harmful, it is critical to scale up defences, disrupt these attacks and make your organization a lesser target. Alex Holden, founder and CISO... Read more »
Sam Lodhi, CISO of UK's Medicine and Health Products Regulatory Agency, speaks about adapting biological cybernetics to help management understand information security risk better and how cybernetics can be applied to other... Read more »
A lesson from down under: A report on unintentionally creating a distributed-denial-of-service attack aimed at oneself highlights the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also, a report on interpreting HIPAA privacy... Read more »
Before Bangladesh Bank Heist, SWIFT Allegedly Overlooked Smaller Banks' SecuritySWIFT screwed up. That's the takeaway from a new report into the Brussels-based cooperative, which alleges that the organization overlooked serious concerns relating... Read more »