The Key To Adding Value Lies With The Smartphone It’s difficult for training companies to differentiate in such a competitive market – but they could take their lead from higher education says Jon Fowler of Meetoo In business the ultimate aim of training is to make more money. Of course it’s also about optimising performance, motivating staff and all the other side benefits. However, when it comes to the crunch, businesses need to know that their investment will be repaid– whether by improved productivity, greater innovation, reduced staff churn or in any other way. Learning and development budgets are already…
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Details have emerged as to how hackers managed to take down the entire DNS infrastructure of a Brazilian bank in order to rob customers in October of last year. By using certificates from Lets Encrypt, the thieves were able to transfer all 36 of the banks domains to phony websites, where unsuspecting users would give away their details. Kevin Bocek, Chief Cyber-Security Strategist at Venafi commented below. Kevin Bocek, Chief Cyber-Security Strategist at Venafi: “Cybercriminals can now steal money by taking advantage of the one security measure every Internet user has been trained to trust: the green padlock in web…
Following the news that Anonymous members who wanted to participate in this year’s annual #OpIsrael cyber-attacks were the targets of an intelligence gathering operation carried out by an unknown threat actor. Stephen Gates, Chief Research Intelligence Analyst at NSFOCUS commented below. Stephen Gates, Chief Research Intelligence Analyst at NSFOCUS: “Activists who desire to participate in these Anonymous-led operations must realize that any DDoS tools they download, likely come with a host of other intentionally-designed threats. From Remote Access Trojans (RATs) designed to assume identities and pilfer money, to purpose-built surveillance code that can pinpoint the participants, these free tools are potentially rife with…
Based on ESET’s notice, Google has removed another malicious app from its official Android app store. It had received 100,000-500,000 downloads since November 2016. Unlike typical downloaders, ransomware and similar nasty stuff, this app – named F11 – did not contain any harmful code. Instead, it relied purely on social engineering, tricking users into paying €18 ($19) for Adobe Flash Player. Yes, Flash Player for Android, which has always been available for free and which was discontinued back in 2012, amid wide criticism of its security vulnerabilities. “Factually, this is a scam,” explains Lukáš Štefanko, ESET malware researcher who led…
Following the news about hack attacks from China have been targeting UK firms. Graeme Newman, Chief Innovation Officer at CFC Underwriting provides an insight below on the potential devastation these attacks can cause to organisations, in particular SMEs who may be more at risk of cyber-crime of this kind. Graeme Newman, Chief Innovation Officer at CFC Underwriting: “While one might expect nation-state actors to target large corporations for their trade secrets, few people think about the collateral damage that comes along with these events. What the recent news about China’s cyber-attacks reveals is that SMEs aren’t impervious to nation-state hack attacks. In fact, if…
Two-thirds of the British public claim the ability of police to intercept and read communications between terrorists is more important than privacy, according to a new study. Lee Munson, Security Researcher at Security and Privacy Advice Comparison Website Comparitech commented below. Lee Munson, Security Researcher at www.Comparitech.com: “The thought that if you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide has, by and large, been considered an outdated concept in the post-Snowden world – but it appears not everyone thinks that way. Coming soon after the Westminster attack, a poll highlighting how many Brits would happily see backdoors inserted into…
Following the news about PwC report APT10 global attack, Greg Sim, CEO at Glasswall Solutions commented below. Greg Sim, CEO at Glasswall Solutions: “The APT10 Operation Cloud Hopper attack revealed in a report by PwC UK and BAE Systems exposes the utter sham of so-called anti-virus defences. The anti-virus companies touting these failed solutions already knew of the malware employed by APT10 yet have proved totally inadequate in protecting managed service providers from it, no matter where on the globe the attack happened. Glasswall has consistently warned against the method used in these attacks – the deployment of “malicious attachments”…
Following the news about Blizzard Gaming that has won $8.5 million copyright damages against German company Bossland. Which creates “cheats”, “hacks” to give gamers unfair advantage, Ilia Kolochenko, CEO at web security firm, High-Tech Bridge commented below. Ilia Kolochenko, CEO at High-Tech Bridge: “This is a very interesting case, however it’s not really a case of criminal hacking, but rather of an unlawful enrichment in violation of third-party intellectual property. In pure cybercrime cases, intruders (i.e. defendants in the court) are almost always unknown, and their identification is either technically impossible or economically impractical. Another important question in the particular case,…
The recent terrorist attack in Westminster has brought with it renewed questions about the use of end-to-end encryption by messaging services such as WhatsApp. With news that Home Secretary Amber Rudd has called leading tech bosses from Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Facebook to a summit to discuss encryption and its national security implications, David Emm, Principal Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab commented below. David Emm, Principal Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab: “The recent terrorist attack in Westminster has brought with it renewed questions about the use of end-to-end encryption by messaging services such as WhatsApp. In particular, the Home Secretary Amber Rudd…
Collaboration to assess performance overhead of virtualization technologies in embedded devices SANTA CLARA, CALIF. Today the prpl Foundation and EEMBC announced a formal partnership to advance the use of security-by-separation in Internet of Things (IoT) edge devices. By developing an industry-standard hypervisor benchmark, the collaboration aims to shatter the perception that the use of hardware virtualization in low-power embedded devices comes with big performance and energy overheads. prpl is a community driven, non-profit organization with a focus on enabling the security and interoperability of embedded devices for the IoT and smart society of the future. EEMBC is an industry alliance that develops benchmarks to help…