It’s a week to go until IP EXPO Manchester 2019 brings leaders in the technology industry together under one roof to educate attendees on the latest IT innovations to help drive their business forward. Taking place on 3rd and 4th April at Manchester Central, the event now encompasses cyber security, cloud and infrastructure, AI, data analytics, IoT, blockchain and software development. If you haven’t booked your ticket yet, here are ten reasons why it’s not to be missed. Christopher Wylie Christopher Wylie, Cambridge Analytica’s whistle-blower, will headline day one, bringing his brutally honest candour to make AI understandable. He will…
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CISCO bungled patches to RV320/RV325 leaving routers still exposed to hacks. https://twitter.com/campuscodi/status/1111139604793573376 Expert Comments Below: Eoin Keary, CEO and Co-founder at edgescan: “It would be prudent to ask why one would expose an administration web interface to any untrusted networks or the public Internet. A very common avenue of attack is to simply attack the administration console, be it default passwords or exploitation of a vulnerability in the web interface. Administration consoles should only be accessible from a trusted network or network range, this can be easily done via a firewall rule.”
It’s no secret that technology has come in leaps and bounds since the invention of the personal computer in the 80s. In the 90s we saw the World Wide Web burst onto the scene, shortly followed by the arrival of the iPhone in the early 2000s. Today, as we approach 2020, we’re facing biotech, blockchain, and bots. With this technological evolution far from slowing down, enterprises across the globe now need to tackle the growing challenge of governing their workforces’ access to data amid the digital transformation. Through all the handoffs of cybersecurity to protect people in organisations – …
It has been reported that a second insurer has cited ‘war exclusion’ to avoid payout over NotPetya. Multinational law firm DLA Piper is in a dispute with its insurer, Hiscox, in an echo of the Zurich Insurance refusal to pay out Mondelez – in both cases, the claims related to the NotPetya cyber-attacks with the insurers citing war exclusion clause.It claims that the NotPetya attack comes under an “act of war” exclusion clause given that the government officially said that the Russian military was “almost certainly” behind the NotPetya attack. Anjola Adeniyi, Technical Leader, EMEA at Securonix: “Even those with comprehensive cyber insurance coverage are far from guaranteed to be able to recover the costs of a cyber…
VAT-registered businesses with a taxable turnover above the VAT threshold are required to use the Making Tax Digital service to keep records digitally and use software to submit their VAT returns from 1 April 2019. Many traditional family run firms, local shops, tradesmen and others – who have submitted Paper VAT returns for a generation or more are going to have to switch to online accounting. While the new system will make VAT collection better and more efficient, it also opens up business to a huge risk from Cyber Criminals, who will be sending ‘Phishing’ emails to businesses, impersonating bookkeepers, accountants, software providers and even HMRC,…
An academic study carried out by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the IMDEA Networks Institute, in collaboration with the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at Berkeley (USA) and Stony Brook University of New York (US), has concluded that Android users are woefully unaware of the huge security and privacy related threats that come from pre-installed apps. Researchers analysed 82,501 applications that were pre-installed on 1,742 Android smartphones sold by 214 vendors and found many of them collect and send data about users to advertisers, as well as have security flaws that often remain unpatched. Following the release of these…
Apple has released security updates for iOS, fixing 51 vulnerabilities in version 12.2 of the operating system. https://twitter.com/CyberCrimeKilla/status/1110796455596290049 Experts Comments Below: Lamar Bailey, Director of Security Research and Development at Tripwire: “Almost every product can be patched or updated easily with auto updates or over the air updates. The days of large service packs should be gone, and we should instead be focusing on a DevOps approach to security patching. When you send out a large patch with tons of fixes it requires a lot of testing, and any error that requires a rollback removes all the good fixes with…
It has been reported that Norsk Hydro may have lost $40 million following last week’s ransomware attack. On a preliminary basis, the financial impact during the first week was estimated at between 300 million and 350 million Norwegian crowns ($35 million-$41 million). Experts Comments Below: Oleg Kolesnikov, VP of Threat Research and Head of Securonix Research Labs at Securonix: “We’ve been closely monitoring the Norsk Hydro ransomware attack, and one thing to note in terms of being able to recover the costs of the attack from a cyber insurer is that this can be far from guaranteed, even with a solid cyber insurance policy. To illustrate,…
For those of us in the security industry, the annual Cyberthreat Defense Report is a gold mine of insights into the minds of IT security professionals, including what threats keep them up at night, and how they plan to defend against them. The 6th edition of the report from the CyberEdge Group was just published. I was able to get a sneak peek at the 2019 report. At 43 pages, it is comprehensive without being over-long. It’s also chock-full of useful charts and graphics depicting the results of the survey, which included 1,200 IT security decision makers and practitioners from…
New survey data shows lack of security support from C-level executives and diminishing security budgets Despite a recent report from Gartner stating that cybercrime is now costing the global economy $5.2 trillion, a new study from Outpost24, an innovator in identifying and managing cyber security exposure, has revealed that almost one in ten (9 percent) organisations say their IT security budget is actually falling year over year. The study, which was carried out in March 2019 at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, also revealed that 26 percent of organisations said their IT security budget is staying the say year over year, despite 62 percent stating that they…