Maria Korolov
Contributing writer
Maria Korolov has been covering emerging technology and emerging markets for the past 20 years.
Don't overdo with biometrics, expert warns
Biometric data such as fingerprint scans is being collected too widely and too casually, according to security company Protegrity USA.
'Legitimate' rooting apps paving way for malware
Companies that create tools for "rooting" Android phones may be paving the way for malware developers
Too many healthcare employees complacent about security
Non-technical health care employees are too complacent about the possibility of a data breach, and few are aware that it has happened to their organizations, according to a survey released today of employees at large and mid-sized...
Advertising network takes on malvertisers
In the war between malvertisers and legitimate advertising networks, the bad guys seems to be winning. Attackers use real-time bidding platforms to place malicious ads on otherwise reputable sites, infect target users and disappear --...
Application attacks against clouds up 45%
Application attacks against clouds jumped 45 percent last year, according to a new report
Quarter of firms can't tell how hackers get in
The majority of large companies have experienced a breach over the past twelve months, but almost a quarter, 23 percent, of firms do not know how the hackers got in, according to a new survey.
Average business spends $15 million battling cybercrime
The average U.S. company of 1,000 employees or more spends $15 million a year battling cybercrime, up 20 percent compared to last year.
Expired certificates cost businesses $15 million per outage
The average global 5,000 company spends about $15 million to recover from the loss of business due to a certificate outage -- and faces another $25 million in potential compliance impact.
Does security awareness training even work?
If even well-educated security experts mess up when it comes to security, can we really educate average employees to be more security aware?
Russian military attacked, possibly by Chinese cyber group
Members of the Russian military have been receiving well-crafted phishing emails since mid-summer from attackers that use Chinese-language tools and Chinese command-and-control installations, according to a report released Wednesday.
As containers take off, so do security concerns
According to a recent survey sponsored by Bristol, UK-based container data management company Cluster HQ, 73 percent of enterprises are currently using containers for development and testing, but only 39 percent are using them in a...
Corebot cleverly written botnet malware with growth potential
There's a new botnet malware on the loose, called Corebot, that researchers believe has the potential to develop into a significant threat.
Attackers forgo malware
To avoid detection, some hackers are ditching malware and living "off the land" -- using whatever tools are already available in the compromised systems.
MIT scores worst in cybersecurity
In a new cyber security survey of 485 large colleges and universities, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology came in at the bottom of the list.
Security experts are mostly critical of proposed threat intelligence sharing bill
This fall, the Senate is expected to take another look at the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA, but many security experts and privacy advocates are opposed.
EMV transition will still leave security gaps
This October, US merchants and payment providers are scheduled to switch to new, more secure, chip-based payments. But financial transactions aren't going to become safer overnight, since the majority of merchants are still not ready...
Ashley Madison still a top lure for scammers and crooks
The Ashley Madison breach has been a Christmas-in-August present for spammers and scammers of all kinds, and your company could be the next target.
CSO burnout biggest factor in infosec talent shortage
The real cause of the talent shortage in the information security field isn't a lack of new people entering the profession, but retention and churn at the highest levels, according to a new report by IDC.
The Web's ten most dangerous neighborhoods
Wouldn't it be convenient if all the spam and malware sites were all grouped together under one top-level domain -- .evil, say -- so that they would be easy to avoid? According to a new study from Blue Coat, there are in fact ten...