Google have launched a new service, Project Shield, which will cache independent news websites in order to protect them from distributed denial of service attacks. Igal Zeifman, Senior Digital Strategist at Imperva, discusses whether Project Shield is enough to protect against DDoS attacks. [su_note note_color=”#ffffcc” text_color=”#00000″]Igal Zeifman, Senior Digital Strategist at Imperva : “Project Shield is a valuable solution that highlights an important issue: the existence of cheap DDoS-for-hire services that enable anyone to launch DDoS attacks of substantial size, against any target. Google is also correct in assuming that news sites are amongst the most prominent targets for DDoS offenders. The…
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The tech industry changes with every passing week, let alone a single year. We saw huge innovation and changes happening within IT in 2015 and 2016 promises to do the same. In this ‘blink and you miss it’ industry, trying to keep afloat of new changes can be extremely difficult. Ideally, you should try to get ahead of emerging trends so that you can prepare your systems for when they are in full effect. To make things easier for you, here’s what we predict will happen in 2016: Bots While software application ‘bots’ aren’t a new concept, they’re going to…
Keeping your enterprise safe in this changing cyber world is a bit of challenging task; network security has become a focal point for most security professionals. Every day we face novel & challenging threats and software vulnerabilities, which have no boundaries and become serious issue between small and large enterprises. As small business generally does lack of proper security management hence, they seem ripe fruits for attackers. To overcome this issue, Unified Threat Management is an ideal choice for any business. Why Unified Threat Management is needed? Managing multiple security platforms is a daunting task for any business. Instead of…
In response to the findings from Proofpoint’s new Human Factor Report, which revealed that Android users have willing downloaded more than two billion mobile applications which are capable of stealing their data, Mark James, security specialist at ESET have the following comments on it. [su_note note_color=”#ffffcc” text_color=”#00000″]Mark James, Security Specialist at IT Security Firm ESET : “Most people still do not perceive the mobile phone or tablet as very real threat vector, it’s still seen as just a phone and not a very powerful computer which is also capable of making calls. The worrying trend is peoples lack of understanding…
Backdoors into security solutions, specifically encrypted communications, have been a major topic in some huge debates lately. While this discussion has certainly taken place in the past, it recently has shaken the tech industry to its core after Apple CEO Tim Cook released a letter stating that the company will fight the FBI’s court order to provide a backdoor into an encrypted iPhone. Cook asserted that if Apple creates a way to circumvent the device’s security features, the organisation is compromising the fundamental aspect of digital security. While the backdoor could only be used once, Cook argued that it wouldn’t, since a…
Raising kids in the internet era? Five years of age is the digital turning point. Parental control tools popular among Brits, not so much with Germans, but all agree – kids go digital too early. Nowadays, the internet and technology have become so important for business, travel and many other everyday tasks that they practically surround us all the time. This is true for the younger generation as well, including even the smallest children, but online surveys by ESET show that a majority of parents in Russia, the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States are not at all happy…
Few comments on Trends at RSA from Hexis Cyber Solutions. Healthcare under fire “Organised crime targetting the healthcare sector is on the rise – the recent ransomware attack on the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles a case in point. Unlike the financial services industry, which has invested a lot in fraud detection technology, the healthcare industry needs to up its defences – especially as patient records move online.” Compliance does not equal security “Globally, critical national infrastructure is one of the the biggest risk areas, under regular attack from hackers and other criminals. The situation is not helped…
Newest Service Pack Release of Award-Winning Change and Access Monitoring Solution Now Shipping With Out-of-the-Box Ransomware Detection Analytic STEALTHbits Technologies Inc., a leading data security software company that ensures the right people have the right access to the right information, announced that StealthINTERCEPT v3.4 SP1 is now available, and includes a new built-in analytic designed to detect and alert on file activity behavior indicative of Crypto Ransomware. “This next generation of ransomware is no longer simply locking down systems and devices,” noted Adam Laub, STEALTHbits’ SVP of Product Marketing. “Today, threats like Crypto Ransomware target unstructured data like Word and…
A new piece of research from Internet security firm ESET has revealed that British parents will allow their children to surf the internet completely unsupervised years before they are trusted to be given their own set of house keys. The internet study, which was carried out in January 2016, looked at the attitudes of 1000 British parents towards their children’s online habits. Key findings revealed that 22 percent of parents will allow their children to surf the internet unsupervised when they are under seven, however the average age is actually 9.5. Respondents were also asked at what age children were…
Researchers from Cylance have outlined a sustained 5-year APT campaign targeting Japanese Critical Infrastructure using dynamic DNS domains and customized backdoors. The attacks have also occurred in the US, South Korea, and Europe. The campaign used custom Android backdoors in 2015 with a Trojan forwarded by SMS messages, and later through specific files, from infected devices to C&C servers. Tim Erlin, Director of IT Security and Risk Management at Tripwire have teh following comments on it. [su_note note_color=”#ffffcc” text_color=”#00000″]Tim Erlin, Director of Security and Product Management at Tripwire : “The more connected our critical infrastructure becomes, the more attractive a target…