TEMASOFT proudly sponsors the “2016 Insider Threat Spotlight Report.”

The Insider Threat Spotlight report is based on a survey of more than 500 security professionals at various career levels, conducted by Crowd Research Partners in collaboration with the Information Security Community on LinkedIn. TEMASOFT is committed to supporting customers in building better data protection strategies and therefore is very interested in the latest experiences, […]

Dangers of mobile banking

2016 Ponemon Cost of Data Breach Study – The less obvious conclusions

The 11th edition of the 2016 Ponemon Cost of Data Breach Study presents an in-depth analysis of the cost of data breaches across the world, its specific components and the factors that affect it. At the same time, the study provides insights into the likelihood of data breaches for the next year. This year’s report […]

Eating out – no longer safe if you pay by card

Restaurants were not avoided by hackers in 2016, and the reason why is quite obvious: big restaurant chains run their business in many locations, there is virtually zero IT security expertise on these sites, and most importantly, there is a big cash flow and a significant number of transactions going on every day. How restaurants […]

Common ways of stealing data: Access token theft

Nowadays, 41 records are lost every second in data breaches usually caused by external attackers (according to Breachlevelindex), and the trend is climbing. Companies need to invest more in security training and solutions to reduce the risk of successful cyber attacks. This article explores a way in which hackers steal data once they managed to […]

HIPAA: Can you prove your data has NOT been compromised?

Proof, rarely a concern Proof that the data was safe at a particular point in time is rarely a concern for most organizations implementing security controls. There are many other areas believed to be more important. Hence, the focus is mostly on protecting information by assessing and mitigating risk associated with its loss. Part of […]

Common ways to steal data: Clear-text password dumps.

When counting lost records officially reported so far in 2016 in the US, 3.2 out of 4.7 Million were stolen by external attackers (according to Privacy Rights Clearinghouse database). These numbers show that in spite of increased security awareness, bigger budgets, stricter standards and regulations, companies are still easy prey for hackers. This article explores […]

File integrity monitoring – Are you doing it properly?

The integrity of system and configuration files of various services and applications is critical for building and maintaining secure IT environments. Hence, multiple compliance objectives (HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX, FISMA and more) require implementing file integrity monitoring to ensure that these critical files are changed as part of authorized, documented and controlled processes only. Many […]

Ransomware stories – Petya, the odd one out

What is Petya and how is it different from other ransomware? Petya ransomware is meant to prevent users from accessing their data and force them to pay ransom in order to recover it. However, unlike other types of ransomware, it does not use encryption to compromise the files one by one, which may take time […]