Risk Management Monitor » Cyber Crime

If you ask a CFO if their company’s current cybersecurity strategy is working, it’s very likely that they do not know. While at first they may think it is, because the company’s bank accoun...

https://www.riskmanagementmonitor.com/companies-must-evolve-to-keep-up-with-hackers/

SAN FRANCISCO—As hacking collectives target both the public and private sectors with a wide range of motivations, one thing is clear: Destructive attacks where hackers destroy critical business...

https://www.riskmanagementmonitor.com/10-lessons-learned-from-breach-response-experts/

Impostor emails, dubbed “business email compromise” by the FBI, are increasing and targeting companies of every size, in every part of the world. Unfortunately, victims often do not realize t...

https://www.riskmanagementmonitor.com/how-imposter-emails-can-threaten-your-company/

Nearly two years ago, an infamous incident occurred where stolen pictures of celebrities flooded the internet. Originally, it was thought that this was due to an iCloud vulnerability that allowed...

https://www.riskmanagementmonitor.com/phishing-understanding-your-cyber-adversaries/

In its annual Cost of Cyber Crime study, the Ponemon Institute found that the average annual cost of cyber crime per large company is now $15.4 million in the United States. That figure has incre...

https://www.riskmanagementmonitor.com/cost-of-cyber-crime-up-19-for-u-s-businesses/

LAS VEGAS—One of the hottest topics in cyberthreat detection right now is the rise of malvertising, online advertising with hidden malware that is distributed through legitimate ad networks and...

https://www.riskmanagementmonitor.com/the-rise-of-malvertising/

By and large, organizations tend to invest in preventative cybersecurity measures and they also concentrate their resources on detecting and stopping cyberattacks, rather than on painstaking “w...

https://www.riskmanagementmonitor.com/should-you-track-down-your-cyber-attacker/

NEW YORK—Yesterday, Travelers hosted “Hacked: The Implications of a Cyber Breach,” a panel of the insurer’s top experts and outside consultants drilling down into the realities of the cyb...

https://www.riskmanagementmonitor.com/travelers-stages-live-hack-to-examine-realities-of-cyberrisk/

Waking up to find your company on the front page news and at the center of a data breach is every CEO’s worst nightmare—and for a number of businesses, it has become reality. Today, the threa...

https://www.riskmanagementmonitor.com/malware-threats-from-unlicensed-software-the-critical-first-step-for-cyberrisk-management/

Five out of six companies with more than 2,500 employees were targeted in cyberattacks in 2014, representing a 40% increase last year, according to Symantec’s annual Internet Security Threat Re...

https://www.riskmanagementmonitor.com/cyberattacks-targeting-big-companies-up-40/