Twitter is joining the ranks of Google and others who are introducing ad blocking capabilities. Twitter now enables users to block ads on mobile webpages opened through their app by allowing its app to take advantage of the ad blocking software built into Apple’s Safari browser. Chris Olson, CEO of The Media Trust commented below. Chris Olson, CEO at The Media Trust: “Twitter’s introduction of ad blocking capability is an expected outcome from continued consumer aversion to poorly formed ads. Excessive tracking, malware and annoying (screen takeover, redirect, shaky) ads fuel the ad block fire. The only effective way to reign…
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Do not freak out—Follow your plan While unpreparedness in the face of a data breach can cause irreparable damage to a company, panic and disorganization can also be extremely detrimental. It is, therefore, critical that a breached company not stray from its incident response plan, which should include identifying the suspected cause of the incident as a first step. For example, was the breach caused by a successful ransomware attack, malware on the system, a firewall with an open port, outdated software, or unintentional insider threat? Next, isolate the effected system and eradicate the cause of the breach to ensure…
Premier League club implements Barracuda leading security solutions for protection from today’s threats. Highlights: Barracuda Networks has been selected by Swansea City football club to help protect it from today’s advanced cyber threats as well as to become one of the club’s sponsors. Barracuda will provide Swansea City its NextGen Firewalls, complemented by a Web Security Gateway and Barracuda Essentials Swansea city signs Barracuda as a club sponsor Barracuda Networks, Inc. (NYSE: CUDA), the leader in cloud-enabled security and data protection solutions, today announced that it has been selected by Swansea City football club to help protect it from today’s advanced…
News broke earlier this week that the U.S. government issued an alert on the activities of a hacking group it called “Hidden Cobra,” saying the group was part of the North Korean government. The joint alert from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation said that “cyber actors of the North Korean government” had targeted the media, aerospace and financial sectors, as well as critical infrastructure, in the United States and globally. Sean Newman, Director at Corero Network Security commented below. Sean Newman, Director at Corero Network Security: “Recent reports of the way in which North Korea’s has…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a technical alert on Hidden Cobra, the malicious cyber activities by the North Korean government. North Korea’s DDoS botnet infrastructure is also sometimes referred to as Hidden Cobra. The alert provides technical details on the tools and infrastructure, including IP addresses associated with DeltaCharlie, a malware variant used to manage North Korea’s distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet infrastructure. Also listed were indicators of compromise, malware descriptions, network signatures, and host-based rules that network admins can use to detect activity conducted by the North Korean government on…
Rapid7’s senior security researcher Greg Wiseman comments on this month’s Microsoft patches, which were released yesterday: This month sees another spate of critical fixes from Microsoft, including patches for a number of Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities. Two of these are already known to be exploited in the wild (CVE-2017-8543 and CVE-2017-8464). Today’s patches are so crucial that Microsoft has once again released fixes for end-of-life operating systems, citing “the elevated risk for destructive cyber attacks at this time” and explicitly calling out the threat of nation-state actors. Updates are available for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 8, and Windows…
CNBC reported that: At least two major bitcoin exchanges reported cyberattacks this week. The attacks were ‘denial-of-service’ in nature and did not affect clients’ funds. Bitcoin briefly more than tripled for the year when it topped $3,000 last weekend. Bitfinex, the largest U.S. dollar-based bitcoin exchange and smaller BTC-e’s exchange were the alleged victims of the breaches. Ilia Kolochenko, CEO at High-Tech Bridge: “Speaking about growing DDoS attacks against Bitcoins stock exchanges and other infrastructure companies, they are likely conducted to influence Bitcoin exchange rate (in USD) by unfair traders and speculators. Such wild speculative tactics and the ease of the attacks…
In response to reports that North Korea was responsible for the WannaCry ransomware attack last month, Hitesh Sheth, CEO at Vectra Networks comments that this latest update comes as no surprise. Hitesh Sheth, CEO at Vectra Networks: “Confirmation from the NSA that North Korea was likely behind WannaCry comes as a surprise to no one. Cybersecurity experts have been speculating that the nation-state was responsible for the attack since they began analysing the code in May, and the real question now is how the Trump administration will respond. Under former President Obama, we saw swift sanctions following the Sony breach, and I expect to…
Heathrow Airport’s Terminals 3 and 5 are currently experiencing a baggage system failure. When an airport like Heathrow struggles to keep their IT systems running smoothly, people begin to worry about the other software-reliant and business-critical services they provide. Kevin Cunningham, Managing Director at SQS commented below on this incident. Kevin Cunningham, Managing Director at SQS: “The news that Heathrow Airport’s Terminals 3 and 5 are currently experiencing a baggage system failure, just three weeks’ after an IT failure caused British Airways to cancel all flights from Heathrow and Gatwick, shines a light on just how important software quality is. Customer…
One of Apple’s top 10 productivity apps – Mobile Protection Clean & Security VPN has been pulled from the Apple story after it was discovered that cyber criminals were leveraging “Search Ads” a new functionality in the app. Chris Olson, CEO at The Media Trust commented below. Chris Olson, CEO at The Media Trust: “Fraud takes many shapes in the digital ecosystem. Whether hijacking a legitimate app to redirect to a another (possibly malicious) app, executing non-human clicks, serving compromised ads or surreptitiously launching other apps it all boils down to opportunity and financial incentive. Just like other ad-supported companies,…