ICYMI, Forbes recently release the top 2016 Cybersecurity reports.
The entire article is available here. It includes links to individual reports by AT&T, CISCO, Dell, Google, and others.
I found the key takeaways, quoted below, to be incredibly interesting.
- 458% increase in the number of times hackers searched Internet of Things connections for vulnerabilities
- There’s a 221% increase in compromised WordPress sites
- Malware attacks nearly doubled to 8.19 billion, with Android ecosystem being the prime target
- Google notified Google Play developers about potential security issues, which led to better security for 100,000+ apps
- The healthcare industry was the one most frequently attacked, speeding straight past financial services and manufacturing
- Attacks on automobile systems will increase rapidly in 2016 due to the rapid increase in connected automobile hardware built without foundational security principles
- Spear-phishing campaigns targeting employees increased 55% last year
- 89% of all cyber attacks involve financial or espionage motivations
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What trends do you see that may apply to DOD?
How can we leverage this information to protect our networks?
Can we use similar data to better balance risk, vice seeking to simply protect all networks equally?
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Chuck
11 August 2016 at 16:31
Thanks
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12 August 2016 at 09:40
Some good cyber security news. Especially, malware attacking news is so thinkable. Nowadays the uses of Android device are increasing and attackers take this chance. They always use malware for android devices.
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13 August 2016 at 17:34
Great news of 2016 though the year of 2016 is not passed and we need to think that cyber crime can be happen any time, any where. So we should keep awake about this kind of crime.
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