The Office of Personnel Management announced that 5.6 million people are now estimated to have had their fingerprint information stolen – originally thought to be about 1.1 million. About 21.5 million individuals had their Social Security Numbers and other sensitive information affected by the hack. Security Experts from STEALTHbits, Lastline, Tripwire, Lieberman and Securonix have the following comments on OPM Breach. [su_note note_color=”#ffffcc” text_color=”#00000″]Jeff Hill, Channel Marketing Manager, STEALTHbits : “Public details of the OPM breach are sparse. We don’t know how long the attackers operated on the OPM network undetected. We don’t know the means of initial infiltration. However,…
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Adrian Palmer, managing partner at Proven Legal Technologies commented on the Volkswagen emissions scandal. [su_note note_color=”#ffffcc” text_color=”#00000″]Adrian Palmer, Managing Partner at Proven Legal Technologies : “The news that Volkswagen has been fixing their emissions testing results has shaken the entire automotive industry to the core. Regulators, the press and the public have immediately started looking for answers as to how this development was initiated and how high up the tiers of the organisation it was known. Was this a rogue engineer or an agreed upon company strategy? Communications going back a number of years, from people across the entire company,…
Updated Versions of AVG AntiVirus and Internet Security Software Offer Enterprise Class Security for SMBs and New Value for Channel Partners AVG® Technologies N.V. (NYSE: AVG), the online security company™ for more than 200 million monthly active users, announced the release of its 2016 Business Edition software suite with new versions of its AVG AntiVirus Business Edition and AVG Internet Security Business Edition products. The 2016 suite, central to the company’s expanded security strategy for business, provides enterprise scale security to channel partners and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the frontline defense against malware and online threats. Available worldwide,…
Raytheon|Websense® Labs Diagnoses State of Healthcare IT Security Healthcare industry sees 340 percent more security incidents and attacks than the average industry Medical data 10X more valuable; 200 percent more likely to encounter data theft Connected medical devices increase attack surfaces Raytheon|Websense, a global leader in protecting organisations from the latest cyber-attacks and data theft, announced the findings of the Websense Security Labs™ 2015Healthcare Drill-Down Report, examining the current state of cyber threats and data-stealing attacks against an increasingly digital healthcare industry. The report reveals that healthcare is highly-targeted and increasingly vulnerable as the next wave of connected devices hits an already complex…
Manufacturing is already the golden goose as far as the cyber criminal is concerned, with the Verizon 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report rating it as the third most highly targeted industry. But the motivation behind these attacks – and the way they are performed – could be about to shift. Threats have typically sought to exploit weaknesses and to sniff out sensitive data but this is likely to change to a more disruptive pattern with attacks purposely seeking to target intellectual property and cause business downtime. In a report called a ‘Guide to Cyber Risk: Managing The Impact of Increasing…
Two-Thirds of Global Businesses Have Lost Customers from Failure to Secure the Online Trust Established by Keys and Certificates The Ponemon Institute and Venafi, the Immune System for the Internet™ and the leading provider of Next Generation Trust Protection, released new data from the 2015 Cost of Failed Trust Report, on the inherent risk and direct business impact from unsecured cryptographic keys and digital certificates on Global organizations. The newly released data from a survey of over 2,300 global IT security professionals reveals how the growing dependence on the digital trust provided by keys and certificates correlates directly to an…
In response to the news that Forbes has become the victim of a malvertising attack, Kevin Epstein, VP of Threat Operations at Proofpoint have the follwoing comments. [su_note note_color=”#ffffcc” text_color=”#00000″]Kevin Epstein, VP of Threat Operations at Proofpoint : “This attack echoes one Proofpoint described in late 2014 that was deployed though Yahoo and 25 other major brand sites. Clearly the need for Malvertising protection — on the ad-hosting sites and at Enterprises whose employees browse such sites — remains strong. Malvertising can enter the ad chain at many points, and is virtually impossible to detect at scale using manual inspection.…
Partnerships with Big Data vendors Couchbase, DataStax and MongoDB expands Centrify’s Big Data Ecosystem beyond Hadoop Centrify Corporation, the leader in securing identities from cyberthreats, announced the expansion of its big data security solution with support for NoSQL — reinforcing Centrify’s status as the only vendor to comprehensively address identity management for big data. Through product enhancements to the recently released Centrify Server Suite 2015.1, new deployment guides and new certified integrations with top NoSQL vendors, Centrify customers can now enable Active Directory-based authentication into NoSQL-based apps, as well as give IT and security staff a robust privileged access management solution…
UK IT Professionals More Likely to Believe Company Board is presented with Accurate Cyberthreat Information Tripwire, Inc., a leading global provider of advanced threat, security and compliance solutions, announced the results of a study conducted by Dimensional Research on the cybersecurity literacy challenges faced by organizations. The study, carried out in May 2015, evaluated cybersecurity risk decision-making and communication between IT security professionals, executive teams and boards. Study respondents included 200 IT security professionals at U.S. companies with annual revenues of more than $5 billion, and 151 IT professionals from U.K. organizations with annual revenues over £500 million. Key findings…
Report Offers a Detailed Look at How a Consumer Banking Trojan Can Infect a Company Imperva, Inc. (NYSE:IMPV) committed to protecting business-critical data and applications in the cloud and on-premises, unveiled its latest Hacker Intelligence Initiative (HII) Report: “Phishing Trip to Brazil.” This new report, published by the Imperva Application Defense Center (ADC), offers a detailed look at a cyber attack targeting consumers using a banking Trojan, and shows how consumer-centric cyber crimes can compromise the enterprise. The report also demonstrates that despite potential anti-malware defenses, attacks that target individual employees can easily enter the enterprise network. To conduct this…