New offering will expand Verizon Digital Media Services’ web security portfolio and deepen its multi-layered defense approach San Francisco and Los Angeles. Distil Networks, Inc., the global leader in bot detection and mitigation, and Verizon Digital Media Services, the next-generation digital media platform, today announce a partnership to deliver superior bot protection deployed on Verizon’s acclaimed Edgecast Content Delivery Network (CDN). The partnership will enhance Verizon Digital Media Services’ suite of security features, now incorporating protection against a wide-range of automated threats including: web scraping, application denial of service, account takeover, transaction fraud and digital ad fraud. The service is available…
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Cybercrime was big business for fraudsters in 2016 with cybercriminals racking up an estimated £1 billion in damages to companies across the UK. But more than the ever increasing financial and reputational risks affecting the corporate and commercial sectors are the very real possibilities of cybercrime being used to execute large scale terrorist attacks, assassinations and even murders. As programmes like ‘Humans’ and ‘West World’ play out a fictional world of cyborgs turning on mankind, we take a look at the growing number of cyber threats, both to businesses and individuals, and how fiction is quickly becoming fact. The Internet…
KasperskyOS is a specialised operating system designed for embedded systems with strict cybersecurity requirements. By design, KasperskyOS significantly reduces the chances of undocumented functionality and thus mitigates the risk of cyberattacks. A massive undertaking that has taken Kaspersky Lab’s best talent 15 years to create, KasperskyOS is now commercially available to OEMs, ODMs, systems integrators and software developers around the world. Key implementations of the operating system are tailored for the telecoms and automotive industries as well as critical infrastructure. KasperskyOS introduces a secure-by-design environment for the ever-growing and increasingly attacked embedded systems and IoT devices. In a modern connected…
In advance of RSAC, Rapid7 unveiled its latest research paper, highlighting the real-life experiences of dozens of penetration testers to help demystify the occult art of hacking for hire. Taking the results of 128 penetration tests conducted by Rapid7 throughout Q4 2016, key findings included: – Only 33% of client sites had no found vulnerabilities, showing the significant needed improvement on enterprise security. – Of the 86% of engagement where credential theft was in scope, two-factor authentication was simply not a factor. Considering the millions of large-scale breaches in 2016, and the endemic problem of password reuse, this finding was particularly disheartening. – Despite…
Our constantly-connected lifestyles are not just putting our data at risk but our relationships too, finds Intel Security and behavioural psychologist, Jo Hemmings More than three-quarters of Brits (79%) feel anxious or extremely anxious if they’re ever without their phone And a third (32%) feel they have to fight with a connected device for their partner’s attention With 38% of Brits opting to have difficult conversations via text or social media rather than face to face, Jo Hemmings explains that mobile phones cause a breakdown in communication The issue is most pronounced with 18-25 year olds, who are twice as…
Many websites of foreign embassies and ministries have been compromised to infect visitors. Paul Farrington, Manager, EMEA Solution Architects at Veracode commented below. Paul Farrington, Manager, EMEA Solution Architects at Veracode: “There is no question that cybercriminals are targeting government and public services that people trust to disseminate malware and APTs. Indeed, our recent State of Software Security report found governments to be the weakest sector in terms of their application security – with 75% of apps failing OWASP compliance pass rates. “With this in mind, it has never been clearer of the importance of the work of the newly launched…
Following the news that Sports Direct suffered a data breach as the result of an unpatched staff portal – and failed to inform its own staff, IT security experts from Kaspersky Lab, SentinelOne, TrapX, RES and ZoneFox commented below. David Emm, Principal Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab: “Customers that entrust private information to the care of a business should be safe in the knowledge it is kept in a secure manner. Whilst security solutions significantly mitigate the risk of a successful attack, there are also other measures businesses can take in order to provide thorough protection. These measures include running fully updated…
Thousands of WordPress webpages hacked, ESET Ireland finds several Irish pages, including GAA Daily among them. Last week, WordPress revealed that 4.7.2 had secretly included a fix for an undisclosed critical vulnerability. Evidence has emerged that malicious hackers did not take long to strike after news of the vulnerability was made public, with researchers reporting that multiple public exploits were being shared and posted online within 48 hours. If left unpatched, the vulnerability could allow a malicious attacker to modify the content of any post or page on a WordPress site. A number of defacement campaigns have been spotted, including one…
New solutions give customers the protection and intelligence required to keep applications and user data secure SEATTLE – F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) introduced security solutions that provide visibility, context, and control to overcome today’s evolving threats. In a digital-driven economy, applications deliver business services for a variety of access points and locations, opening up new risks and attack vectors—particularly as IT teams extend security and encryption capabilities across cloud, data center, and hybrid environments. “Applications and data are among the most valuable assets of any organization,” said Ryan Kearny, CTO at F5. “Without reliable applications, you essentially halt customer discovery, transactions, and revenue.…
Capgemini released a new report which stated that only one in five (19%) UK financial service organisations are highly confident they can detect a data breach (21% globally). Commenting on this, Lisa Baergen, Director at NuData Security “The verdict is still out on whether customers trust their banks. There are many contrary reports that state trust is at an all-time low and differs on many factors. The Capgemini research does point out that this trust isn’t extended to the financial services industry by either their customers or their own executives. It may be the case that the perception doesn’t always…