5G is being hailed as the next big thing in the telecoms world. It’s seen as the enabler for IoT applications such as autonomous vehicles, healthcare solutions, and robotics – the future in other words, all thanks to its increased data speeds with incredibly low latency. With the number of worldwide 5G connections set to hit 1.4 billion by 2025[i], you can understand why its imminent rollout is also music to the ears of equipment manufacturers. Once fully implemented, the likes of Apple and Samsung will be using the “5G enabled” tagline as a key selling-point to an ever-growing smartphone…
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The US Department of Energy released its Multi-Year Plan for Energy Sector Cybersecurity to help make US energy systems more resilient and secure. The plan includes: boosting threat-sharing with the private sector, including a malicious code repository and exchange curbing supply-chain risk, and accelerating research and development to make energy systems more resilient to hacking. Also, the plan serves as a roadmap for the new Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER), for which The Administration has requested $96 million in the 2019 US Federal budget. In response, a Corero Network Security expert commented below Andrew Lloyd, President at Corero Network Security: “This Cybersecurity Plan…
A new report has revealed that 25% of enterprises have suffered from cloud cryptojacking incidents, a sharp increase from the 8% that was recorded from last quarter. As more enterprises increase their activities in the cloud, this area has become a natural target for malicious attackers. IT security experts commented below. Chris Doman, Security Researcher at AlienVault: “Most of these attacks are opportunistic – the attackers scan the internet for vulnerable systems in any environment, many of which are with cloud providers. Cloud providers are well aware of the risk, for example Microsoft has released good advice and tools for detecting currency miners…
In May 2017 the biggest ransomware attack in history broke out. Known as “WannaCry,” the now infamous ransomware spread like wildfire, affecting PCs around the world. One year on, the same malware – which exploits the EternalBlue vulnerability – is still prevalent. Avast has detected and blocked more than 176 million WannaCry attacks in 217 countries since the initial attack. And in March 2018, we blocked 54 million attacks attempting to abuse EternalBlue. Given the publicity around the attacks, it could be assumed that people and businesses would have completed their system updates. Our data, however, shows that nearly one…
Optiv Security Cyber-Intelligence Report Reveals State of the Cyber-Threat Landscape Optiv Security, the world’s leading security solutions integrator, has published its 2018 Cyber Threat Intelligence Estimate (CTIE) which details the current state of the cyber-threat landscape and uses estimative intelligence to predict how that landscape stands to change in the future. This report is generated to provide Optiv’s clients with a global view of security threats and trends, so they can effectively adapt their strategic plans to mitigate anticipated enterprise risk. Among the key findings in the report: The Rise of the Netherlands and Lebanon. Seemingly benign nation states such as Lebanon and the…
Professor Avishai Wool, CTO and co-founder at AlgoSec, looks at how organizations can ensure network security is extended to AWS environments With organizations having a seemingly insatiable appetite for the agility, scalability and flexibility offered by the cloud, it’s little surprise that one of the market’s largest providers, Amazon’s AWS, continues to go from strength to strength. In its latest earnings report, AWS reported a 45% revenue growth during Q4 2017. However, AWS has also been in the news recently for the wrong reasons, following a number of breaches of its S3 data object storage service. Over the past 18 months, companies including Uber,…
Siemen’s has sent out an alert on a Denial of Service vulnerability that could affect its SIMATIC S7-400, a family of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) designed for process control in industrial environments. Andrew Lloyd, President at Corero Network Security commented below. Andrew Lloyd, President at Corero Network Security: “As we’ve been discussing in relation to Critical Infrastructure security, there is a genuine risk of service disruption, malware infestation and/or safety if control equipment such as these PLCs is exposed on the Internet where the full pandemic of cyber-threats (including DDoS) is there to exploit their vulnerabilities. It comes as little…
President Trump has scrapped position of cyber security coordinator, commonly referred to as the cyber czar. Ross Rustici, Senior Director of Intelligence Services at Cybereason commented below. Ross Rustici, Senior Director of Intelligence Services at Cybereason: “The removal of the cybersecurity position will leave the Trump administration flat footed the next time a major cyber event does happen. In situations where minutes matter, the most prepared person in the room almost always carries the day. In a room full of decision makers with no cyber security background and a general who is in charge of fighting cyber wars, it is…
Governance of company data has never been trickier for organisations than in today’s business world. It was not so long ago that the bulk of company data simply resided either on premise or within a company datacentre, with supervision of that data proving to be a relatively manageable task for IT teams. The widespread adoption of cloud infrastructures has halted this trend, however, with many enterprises increasingly keen on embracing the cloud to help digitally transform their businesses. However, the distribution of corporate data across private and public stores presents a conundrum in today’s data storage landscape. Many companies are looking…
Why situation rooms hold the key to dealing with a data breach You can imagine a scene in an action movie where the president is briefed on an ongoing incident, surrounded by generals, and chiefs of staff. Each in turn describe parts of the event, while the president asks questions and directs actions until the incident is over or a decisive move is made to combat the foe. What you can picture is called a situation room. In fact, the situation room is based in reality. Being created in 1961, such a room brings together the right people and information to allow…