Quarterly report on enterprise services sees organisations use an average of four IaaS services LONDON, UK. Netskope, the leader in cloud security, today announced the release of the January 2017 Netskope Cloud Report™ on enterprise cloud service usage and trends. According to the report, enterprise cloud service usage continues to rise, and despite the best efforts of IT, unsanctioned cloud service usage remains a problem as half of all users of sanctioned cloud storage services also have a personal instance of the same cloud service. As the deadline for compliance approaches, the report also looked at European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)…
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2016 was the biggest year by far for all sorts of bots. From Chatbots to bad bots, the past year was eventful to say the least. With more than 980+ cyber security breaches across all online businesses and 35 million accounts exposed. Yahoo! In a 2016 report, disclosed that more than 1 billion accounts have been stolen. $400 billion was reportedly lost to cyber attacks across all industries this year. With this trend the losses are set to top out at around $2.1 Trillion by 2019. Now, let’s look at the top 4 incidences of bots that altered history in…
The widespread attack on MongoDB databases is gathering speed, with reports that close to 50,000 databases are vulnerable. MongoDB does offer security protections, but they are not enforced and many customers decline to use them. Wieland Alge, VP & GM EMEA at Barracuda Networks commented below. Wieland Alge, VP & GM EMEA at Barracuda Networks: “MongoDB does offer security protections, but many customers fail to use them. This leaves many thousands of databases exposed on the internet, where anyone can access them with full admin rights. “The MongoDB attacks were initially thought to have been isolated incidents, but since the discovery in December, we are now…
Shift in the Use of Trusted Identities Fuels Broader Adoption of Mobile and Advanced Smart Card Technology, a Greater Emphasis on the Cloud and Emerging IoT Use Cases LONDON, UK. HID Global®, a worldwide leader in trusted identity solutions, forecasts a shift in the use of identity technology that will lead to increased adoption of mobile devices and the latest smart card technology, a greater emphasis and reliance on the cloud, and a radical new way of thinking of trust in smart environments and Internet of Things (IoT). Ultimately, HID Global predicts the 2017 trends will transform the way trusted identities are…
A cyber attack against a Ukrainian power grid left customers without electricity for an hour last month. Ukrainian security researchers involved in the investigation say they believe the attack was conducted by the same hackers who cut power in Ukraine a year ago. Tim Erlin, Sr. Director, Product Management at Tripwire: “While this second attack on the Ukrainian power grid is concerning, the string of attacks across high value targets in the Ukraine is more disturbing. From finance to rail, the series of attacks has targeted Ukraine’s critical infrastructure. Cyberattacks against energy infrastructure are here to stay, and the industry needs…
Following the news that a professor at the Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division of the National Institute of Informatics has demonstrated how fingerprints can be stolen from a photo. Robert Capps, VP of Business Development at NuData Security commented below. Robert Capps, VP of Business Development at NuData Security: “While physical biometrics will always have a place when it comes to in-person user authentication, there are significant drawbacks to consider when the biometric identity verification is extended online.People shed physical biometric data wherever they go, leaving fingerprints on everything touched, posting selfies on social media, and videos with…
Following the news that the ICO has fined insurance firm RSA £150,000 for the theft of a hard drive containing data for 60,000 customers, Dr Bernard Parsons of data protection specialist Becrypt commented below. Dr Bernard Parsons, Co-founder and CEO of Becrypt: “Organisations are often focused on the threat of online cyber attacks that they are increasingly overlooking the physical security of their technology and infrastructure. The £150,000 fine handed down to RSA by the Information Commissioner’s Office for the theft of a hard drive containing unencrypted data for almost 60,000 customers should serve a warning on how dangerous this…
Key findings: 54% are concerned about the possibility of their router being hacked Yet millions have kept the factory settings on their router Women were less likely to update and change the settings on their router With recent attacks against home broadband routers making headlines [1], research commissioned by Broadband Genie has found over half (54%) of British broadband users are concerned about the possibility of their router being hacked. Despite this, the majority (53%) have not changed the Wi-Fi password and other default settings, potentially opening themselves up to attack. It was found that just 19% had accessed the…
Last November Unit 42, Palo Alto Networks threat intelligence research arm, reported on Shamoon attacks in Saudi Arabia. It is now reporting a second wave of attacks in a new blog post: In November 2016, we observed the re-emergence of destructive attacks associated with the 2012 Shamoon attack campaign. We covered this attack in detail in our blog titled Shamoon 2: Return of the Disttrack Wiper, which targeted a single organization in Saudi Arabia and was set to wipe systems on November 17, 2016. Since our previous publication, we have found another, similar but different payload used to target a second…
Over night, the FBI released new figures showing that ransomware payments for 2016 are expected to hit a billion dollars. This compares to just $24 million paid out in 2015 and highlights the growing threat ransomware poses to businesses worldwide. Richard Walters, SVP Security Products at Intermedia, commented below on the worrying rise of ransomware attacks and what businesses can do to protect themselves. Richard Walters, SVP Security Products at Intermedia: “Ransomware is evolving at dangerously fast speeds and is now recognized as a very real threat to organisations of all sizes. The emerging malware is no longer infiltrating one computer at…