Blogs About Cyber Security News

Ransomware has grabbed mainstream media attention recently but it’s nothing new – in fact, its origins can be traced back to floppy disk times. Part of ransomware’s new found notoriety is certainly due to the criminals’ latest target of choice, the...

It may sound odd, but cybersecurity has a huge emotional component. Unlike other industries that are driven by optimization and financial gains, cybersecurity has all the makings of a Hollywood movie—good guys, bad guys, nation-states attacking...

Spam is still the preferred attack vector for cyber criminals and malware spam campaigns continue to increase. According to the Symantec Internet Threat Report, 1 in 220 emails in 2015 contained malware. While this figure may seem low, consider that...

It’s always an interesting exercise to extrapolate from current technologies and industry challenges to sketch the future landscape. This especially holds true for cyber security, with its rapid growth and change as new threat types, targets and...

Black Hat USA is in full swing, and cyber experts in every field have descended on Vegas to catch up on the latest cyber threat research, see the latest security technologies and cram in as much hacking and fun as possible into a few short days....

Last week’s Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit crammed several months’ worth of information, analyses, workshops and networking into 3 ½ short days. Though many messages were familiar, a shift could be detected, a recognition that the...

How do you outsmart malware? In an article published by Tech Crunch last week, tech reporter Ben Dickson investigates the new generation of smart malware. He manages to sum up the crux of the problem in two sentences: “Virus definition databases...

The ancients’ experience of modern computing was limited to say the least, but they gave us a nice framework, The Socratic Method for cyber security, that moderns can use for dealing with the problem of cyber security. The Socratic Method is a...

Excerpted from the ebook “Deception and Counter Deception: Moving Target Attacks vs. Moving Target Defense” by Mordechai Guri, Chief Science Officer at Morphisec. Download the full eBook here.

In the arms race between cyber attackers and cyber...

Last week, Morphisec officially came out of the cyber security closet at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. It was a great opportunity to hear some impressive speakers, network with like-minded peers and take the Morphisec solution out for its...

Explosive news about vulnerabilities found in FireEye's security software are hitting the headlines. ZDNet, Ars Technica, PCworld and more reported about the findings by the Google Project Zero researchers. First, let’s give kudos to FireEye for...