The rise of the digital assistant The world around us is becoming more automated than ever before, with many of us increasingly leaning on digital assistants such as Cortana, Echo and Siri to run our lives. Before too long it is highly likely that our cars will be driverless, fridges will restock and our homes will heat themselves. If we are not careful, we could be one step away from being the morbidly obese citizens portrayed in WALL-E, floating around in hoverchairs[1]. But apart from the potential weight gains, is there a darker side to giving away all this control?…
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The Phishing season is on and it is year round because the phishing is so good with bogus domains as bait. Domain phishing is where hackers create domains that are nearly identical to a brand name website and most consumers will never know the difference until their credit card is used or they receive counterfeit products through the mail. Chris Olson, CEO at The Media Trust commented below. Chris Olson, CEO at The Media Trust: “Domain phishing is a pervasive issue throughout the digital ecosystem. Most businesses only worry about the brand damage consequences when a bad actor leverages their name…
Media outlets are today reporting: The leaked NSA report shows 2-factor authentication has a critical weakness: You (preceding links the Mashable story). IT security experts from Balabit, Cyphort, STEALTHbits Technologies, VASCO Data Security and Imperva commented below. Csaba Krasznay, PhD, Product Evangelist at Balabit: “As we know, passwords are dead, but it seems that e-mails should be retired as well. The teenager generation knows something as they are rarely use e-mail. Instead, instant messaging, e.g. Snapchat or Facebook Messenger have already replaced the “old way” of messaging. We can see the same trends in tech companies where Slack is preferred, or in the security community, where encrypted clients, e.g.…
Even though the voting process in the UK is currently not electronic, 40% of Brits surveyed by Avast in the last three days still expressed worries that the election may be targeted by hackers in some way, with only 24% claiming they were not worried at all. Despite 57% of the Association of Election Administrators’ (AEA) recently voting in support of introducing an online voting option in elections, the fear that cybercriminals could potentially influence the democratic process in the UK is holding the British public back from embracing an online voting system. Only 7% of respondents would trust an…
Time lag of seven days between public disclosure and official notification places organizations at significant risk of threats and calls into question the reliability of official disclosure channels. BOSTON – Recorded Future, the threat intelligence company, has today revealed new research uncovering that from over 12,500 disclosed Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), more than 75% were publicly reported online before they were published to the NIST’s centralized National Vulnerability Database (NVD). Sources reporting include easily accessible sites such as news media, blogs, and social media pages as well as more remote areas of the web including the dark web, paste sites,…
The recent terrorist activity in the UK has reignited the debate about the use of encryption online. With news that the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, is calling for new regulation of the Internet, effectively demanding the abolition of encryption, David Emm, Principal Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab commented below. David Emm, Principal Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab: “Recent terrorist activity in the UK has reignited the debate about the use of encryption online. Some politicians have appealed to Internet companies to provide a way for government to inspect the communications of those suspected of criminal activity, for example terrorists.…
Kaspersky Lab researchers have examined publicly available hardware and software tools for covert password interception and discovered that a powerful hacking tool can be created for as little as $20 (£15), and just a few hours of work by someone with basic programming knowledge. In an experiment they used a DIY Raspberry Pi based USB-device, configured in a specific way, and carrying no malicious software. Armed with this device, they were able to covertly collect user authentication data from a corporate network at a rate of 50 password hashes per hour. The research started with a real story: in another…
2017 Global Information Security Workforce Study has found that European companies are expected to go on a cyber security hiring spree in the next year, resulting in a potential skills shortage of 350,000 cyber security professionals across Europe by 2022, Raj Samani, Fellow and Chief Scientist at McAfee commented below. Raj Samani, Fellow and Chief Scientist at McAfee: It is unsurprising that a growing number of companies are now looking to invest in cyber expertise. Last month, the Government’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2017 indicated that three-quarters of UK businesses state that cybersecurity is a high priority for their senior management. Demand for cyber professionals…
In March 1947, a patient who had recently visited Mexico travelled by bus to New York City. He became ill, was hospitalised, and, after his death, found to have had smallpox. This was one of the first casualties of smallpox since the last big outbreak in 1875, which had killed 2,000 New Yorkers. Then, on April 4, Israel Weinstein, the New York City Health Commissioner, urged all New Yorkers who had not been vaccinated since childhood to receive another vaccination. Free vaccine clinics were established throughout the city, and doses were given to private physicians for administration. During the first…
IFINSEC Financial Sector IT Security Conference and Exhibition Date: 14-15 November 2017 Location: Istanbul – Turkey Event Website: www.ifinsec.com Email: [email protected] IFINSEC Financial Sector IT Security Conference and Exhibition (www.ifinsec.com) will be held on 14-15 November 2017 in Istanbul, Turkey. IFINSEC is a global, niche and dedicated conference focusing on IT Security technologies and solutions for financial industry. Sponsorship and delegate registrations are open. There’s an early bird sponsorship pricing which is valid until 09 June 2017. IFINSEC is one of the most important conferences in EMEA region on IT Security technologies and solutions for financial sector. IT Security,…