In today’s complex IT environment, identifying security events fast is critical to minimizing the impact. However, in order to detect and remediate attacks in this environment, security teams need the proper tools to process and correlate massive amounts of real-time and historical security event data. By applying advanced analytics techniques to these huge amounts of […]

Ransomware has been a favorite and time-tested tool for cybercriminals, but the rise of cryptocurrency has given them a broad new target with key strategic advantages, leading to a sharp uptick in crypto mining botnets, researchers at Cisco Talos say. Attackers “are beginning to recognize that they can realize all the financial upside of previous […]

Nearly two-thirds of businesses worldwide have experienced significant delays in sales due to customer data privacy concerns, according to Cisco’s 2018 Privacy Maturity Benchmark Study. The study, based on the responses of roughly 3,000 cybersecurity professionals from 25 countries, shows that 65% of businesses reported sales cycle delays due to concerns over data privacy, with […]

PC maker Lenovo issued a fix for a hardcoded password flaw impacting ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and ThinkStation laptops. The flaw affects nearly a dozen Lenovo laptop models that run versions of Microsoft Windows 7, 8 and the 8.1 operating system. The vulnerability was disclosed by Lenovo on Thursday who also offered a patch to fix affected […]