According to Statista, the online dating sector in the US amounts to $1,389M in 2017. With more and more love being found online, it is important to remember that it’s not all fun and games. The exciting world of online dating can be a perilous one. There are a number of threats aside from a broken heart, including threats to cyber security, identity theft and your general safety. Identity theft The best way around such dangers is to familiarize yourself with the shapes and forms that these threats take. Beginning with identity theft, online dating sites have become a common…
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A serious vulnerability is discovered in Whatsapp’s end-to-end encryption that allows allow Facebook and others to intercept and read encrypted messages. The reason for the flaw is improper encryption key management and there are further details on the story here. Here to comments on this story is security experts from ZoneFox, RES, Venafi, ZoneFox, RES, Thales e-Security, Varonis, Echoworx, AlienVault, ESET, Digital Guardian and Positive Technologies. Dr. Jamie Graves, CEO, ZoneFox: In the digital age we live in, one should always assume nothing is secure. In this case, not even WhatsApp – which took considerable steps to promote the fact its…
In the presidential election, cyber security was a major issue as hacked emails reveal a host of political embarrassments and add fuel to the unprecedented political discourse in this country. One person who will inherit this issue on day one of his or her new job is the incoming United States Chief Technology Officer, who will be nominated by President-elect Donald Trump. Albeit inherently important, cyber security didn’t top the charts of concern when the last CTO, Megan Smith, was appointed by President Obama in 2014. Back then, security in the data center and the (virtual) workspace was completely different…
Following the recent news surrounding the Yahoo! security breach, IT security experts from Kaspersky Lab and Gigya commented below. David Emm, Principal Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab: “Yahoo! has just announced that it fell victim to yet another security breach, with personal details stolen from approximately one billion user accounts. There have been a number of cases this year of retrospective notifications of breaches that are of little help to customers affected by them. This underlines the need for regulation. It’s to be hoped that GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), which comes into force in May 2018, will motivate firms…
Cyber attacks on the U.S. will increase during President Trump’s administration The incoming U.S. administration has already stated it will take a more aggressive posture on cybersecurity. As a result, U.S. businesses and the U.S. government should expect an increase in the number and severity of cyber attacks, led by select nation states and organised political and criminal entities. Ransomware will get an IQ Ransomware attacks target the data files of organisations. Because it provides the fastest way for an attacker to monetise an attack through untraceable Bitcoin, ransomware attacks will grow more intelligent by targeting high-value digital assets, including…
We live in an age where mobile devices are better designed to meet the needs of an increasingly mobile workforce and the cloud provides unlimited opportunities to boost productivity and positively impact the way we do business. However, we are teetering on the edge of a cloud app (also called Software as a Service, or SaaS) deluge. Indeed, businesses are being flooded with a huge variety of unique SaaS apps to facilitate employee’s preferences. The SaaS Tsunami approaches. According to Gartner, a typical enterprise has between 600 to 1000 SaaS applications, of which the IT department knows of around seven…
When asked a poorly bounded question such as “What is the biggest threat to Internet security?”, the majority of quick-fire answers can likely be represented by the flags of a handful of nation states. Certainly the front-of-mind answer – identifying a cluster of hackers – represents a constant and escalating threat to business continuity and potential compromise. Yet, if we introspectively examine the nature of our industry, we can easily argue that the biggest risk that Internet security faces is in fact our general inability to respond and counter the attacks launched by adversaries from around the world. It is…
Kaspersky Lab welcomes the announcement by the Indian Police (Cyber Crime Investigation Cell, CID, West Bengal) of significant progress in its investigation into a phone scam operation that is estimated to have cost victims millions of pounds. The scam, which involved people being called by fraudulent technical support staff, was uncovered in 2012 by a Kaspersky Lab Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) expert, and reported to the Indian Police. The Cyber Crime Investigation Cell has recently taken eight suspects into custody. The phone scammers operated by calling random individuals and posing as representatives of a large, well-known consumer technology…
Following the news of yet another Yahoo hack, which, this time, has leaked around one billion user accounts, cybersecurity experts from ESET, NSFOCUS, Comparitech.com, AlienVault, Veracode, Barracuda Networks, Bitglass, Digital Guardian, Intercede, Alert Logic, Delphix, Post-Quantum, CFC Underwriting, Varonis and eSentire commented below. Mark James, IT Security Specialist at ESET: “Yahoo has announced overnight that yet another breach has happened involving more than 1 billion of their user accounts. As breaches seem to be happening more and more these days we can be forgiven for allowing data breach news to fall on deaf ears, but we need to get this in perspective here, this…
Following the news that Amazon has successfully completed its first Prime Air drone delivery, Colin Bull, Principal Consultant Manufacturing and Product Development at SQS commented below. Colin Bull, Principal Consultant Manufacturing and Product Development at SQS: “With today’s news that Amazon has claimed its first successful Prime Air drone delivery, what was once thought of as a fun novelty for the modern consumer, is now a reality. Despite the obvious benefits, drones must be embraced and feared in equal measures. They might look pretty innocent, but on closer inspection, what you find can be terrifying. Combined with 3d printing these can be easily configured…