**Consultancy urges businesses and consultants to consider France, Australia and UAE as cyber-crime gathers pace** France, Australia and the UAE will become the next big cyber security ‘hotspots’ for businesses and contractors working to combat the rise and evolution of cyber-crime, according to professional services consultancy Procorre. Procorre, which manages the life cycle of cyber security projects around the world, has been tracking levels of government investment in ‘cyber hubs’ and the introduction of national cyber strategies in order to advise a growing number of clients and consultants on where to find the best project opportunities. The consultancy has found…
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Joanne Godfrey at AlgoSec examines what organizations can do to address the cyber-security skills gap. It is well known that organizations today are facing an unprecedented number of cyber threats. From DDoS to ransomware, from phishing attacks to malware, the list of possible attack vectors is seemingly endless. However there is one threat that organizations face which is quietly and stealthily eroding their defenses. What’s worse, this threat cannot be detected by any enterprise security products, yet it presents a very real long-term risk to their organizations: the cybersecurity brain drain. The Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and analyst firm…
Danish telecom operator TDC’s Security Operation Centre has recently discovered a new attack technique in the wild dubbed BlackNurse that allows a single laptop to DDoS a high-bandwidth enterprise firewall. Paul Calatayud, CTO at FireMon commented below. Paul Calatayud, CTO at FireMon: “On certain types of firewalls, this attack requires that the firewall be misconfigured. Device configuration and firewall compliance should be a core requirement for any enterprise. A big part of mitigating threats and attacks is often basic approaches that – at scale – can be difficult or inconsistent. Configuration management is one such example; while it may not be as…
Mobile professionals are addicted to Wi-Fi; connectivity impacts their hotel, airline and other travel choices REDWOOD SHORES, California. iPass Inc. (NASDAQ: IPAS), the leading provider of global mobile connectivity, today revealed the results of The iPass Mobile Professional Report 2016. iPass surveyed more than 1,700 mobile professionals worldwide about their connectivity habits and preferences, highlighting the ever-increasing influence of Wi-Fi on our daily lives. Key findings include: 40 percent of respondents chose Wi-Fi as their number one daily essential, designating it as a higher priority than sex (37 percent), chocolate (14 percent) and alcohol (9 percent) 75 percent of respondents said that…
Friend Finder Network Inc was hacked in October of 2016 for over 400 million accounts representing 20 years of customer data which makes it by far the largest breach we have ever seen — MySpace gets 2nd place at 360 million. This event also marks the second time Friend Finder has been breached in two years, the first being around May of 2015. IT security experts from Redscan, AlienVault, ESET, Comparitech.com, Synopsis and Watchful Software have commented below. Robert Page, Lead Penetration Tester at Redscan: “Unfortunately many businesses simply do not learn their lesson and by failing to implement proper cyber security controls…
Facebook’s chief security officer Alex Stamos has disclosed at the Web Summit in Lisbon that Facebook uses the stolen passwords, purchased from hackers selling them on dark web marketplaces, to cross-reference them with encrypted passwords already in use on the site. He added that despite the process being “computationally heavy”, Facebook has been able to alert millions of users about resetting their vulnerable passwords to a stronger alternative, effectively ensuring users’ account and data safety. IT security experts from Prevoty, VASCO Data Security, Synopsys, Redscan, AlienVault and Lieberman Software commented below. Kunal Anand, Co-Founder and CTO at Prevoty: “This is a smart move…
Researchers have developed proof-of-concept attack on smart lightbulbs that allows them to wirelessly take over the bulbs from up to 400m, write a new operating system to them, and then cause the infected bulbs to spread the attack to all the vulnerable bulbs in reach, until an entire city is infected. The researchers demonstrate attacking bulbs by drone or ground station. The demo attacks Philips Hue lightbulbs, the most popular smart lighting system in the market today. Mark James, Security Specialist at ESET commented below. Mark James, Security Specialist at ESET: “If we want to look at worst case scenarios…
Following the news that Kaspersky recently released figures on ransomware attacks against SMBs, FalconStor’s UK & Ireland Managing Director commented below how to recover from an attack if businesses are caught out. Tony Martin, UK & Ireland Managing Director at FalconStor: Even though research from Kaspersky shows a rise in small and medium businesses (SMBs) being targeted by ransomware, it can affect any type of business, no matter its size. Ransomware can also find many different routes in. It could be as simple as an employee using personal emails or social media at work and clicking on a malicious link. The reality is…
Areg Alimian Ixia’s senior director solutions marketing, looks at best practices in eliminating network blind spots and ensuring reliable, fast and secure business applications Has your organization’s network lost its edge? It is certainly likely to be happening. Virtualization, cloud migrations, the IoT, and more mobile devices connecting to the network, are all stretching and distorting companies’ network edges, to the point where it is easy to lose visibility of where those edges are – and what lies beyond them. The situation is further complicated by the fact that IT infrastructures are rarely moved to the cloud in a single process: budgetary constraints,…
A wave of DDoS attacks hit at least five Russian banks with prolonged DDoS attacks this week. Among the victims of the DDoS attacks against the online banking services there are Sberbank and Alfabank banks. The string of DDoS attacks began on Tuesday afternoon and lasted over two days. Stephen Gates, chief research intelligence analyst at DDoS mitigation company, NSFOCUS commented below. Stephen Gates, Chief Research Intelligence Analyst at DDoS Mitigation Company, NSFOCUS: “What we have learned in the past 12 months alone, is that no organisation, government or nation is immune to the pending threat of DDoS; as IoT botnets grow larger in…