According to new research, cyber-attacks using DNS channels to steal data, DDoS victims, and deploy malware have grown in volume and cost throughout the pandemic. EfficientIP’s 2021 Global DNS Threat Report was compiled by IDC from interviews with 1,114 organizations across the world about their experiences of last year. It found that 87% of organizations suffered one or more DNS attack in 2020, up eight percentage points from 2019. On average, victims were hit 7.6 times…

According to a new report, Chinese threat actors breached North America’s largest transport network in a likely cyber-espionage campaign earlier this year. The attackers reportedly exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the Pulse Connect Secure remote access product to penetrate the IT systems of New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in April. Although they achieved persistence for several days and compromised three of the transit authority’s 18 computer systems, the MTA claimed that the actors stole no…

CIO | Jun 4, 2021 If data is the new oil, the insights that come from analyzing it—make that loads of it—are a goal for companies hungry to satisfy customers and boost revenues. But as IT leaders know, data science is anything but exact and it requires a delicate balance of humans working in concert with machine learning algorithms. In this interview, Gareth Ross, head of enterprise technology and experience at MassMutual, discusses the importance…