There have never been more warnings about Facebook scams and social engineering attacks and yet millions of its users are falling for them in seemingly ever-greater numbers. Why?
John E. Dunn |
05 Nov |
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Unpredictable security threats such as the CryptoLocker malware and Heartbleed bug have become a growing neurosis for UK organisations, forcing many some to re-write their security policies in the last year, according to Databarracks' annual Data Health Check.
John E. Dunn |
05 Nov |
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Is UK security firm Avecto about to make application sandboxing usable at last?
John E. Dunn |
05 Nov |
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As if the Italian economy isn't in a bad enough state, organisations in the country have been plagued by a spate of attacks by the unpleasant TorrentLocker ransomware, with at least one local government office being forced to pay 'i criminali' hundreds of euros to get back critical data.
John E. Dunn |
30 Oct |
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US SaaS vendor Alert Logic has become the latest firm to open a security services facility in South Wales to anchor the firm's monitoring for customers across the continent. Does that means this part of the UK is becoming a new tech hub?
John E. Dunn |
28 Oct |
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Police have revealed news of a spectacular malware attack by an East European gang in May that managed to steal £1.6 million ($2.5 million) from dozens of ATM machines in cities across the UK.
John E. Dunn |
27 Oct |
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"Here is a tale of ransomware that will make your blood run cold," announced Stu Sjouwerman of security training firm KnowBe4 in a company newsletter this week and he wasn't exaggerating.
John E. Dunn |
24 Oct |
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The Koler Android ransom Trojan is spreading in the US after turning itself into an SMS worm, it has been reported. It's a tactic that could allow a rare piece of mobile malware to escape the nether-world of sideloaded apps from dodgy porn sites.
John E. Dunn |
22 Oct |
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The volume of stolen data traded by criminals reached 110 million this year, overwhelmingly online credentials such as user names and passwords, credit agency Experian has estimated using its own web monitoring system.
John E. Dunn |
22 Oct |
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Targeted and malware attacks on European organisations doubled in the first half of 2014 with government, energy, finance and telecoms in the UK and Germany the hot targets, according to FireEye's latest EMEA Threat Report.
John E. Dunn |
22 Oct |
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The Russian-based cybercriminals currently plundering US retailers could be making as much as $680 million (£425 million) a year from their thefts, a security consultancy in the country has estimated.
John E. Dunn |
18 Oct |
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US organisations now suffer so many data breaches it has become a full time job simply documenting them. But what has been going on in Europe?
John E. Dunn |
13 Oct |
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IT services firm CGI (formerly Logica) is consolidating its UK cyber-security threat monitoring into two centres in Wales and Reading to offer customers a more comprehensive suite of real-time alerts and forensic investigation.
John E. Dunn |
11 Oct |
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The obscure Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) has become the latest obscure-but-occasionally useful protocol to be harnessed by DDoS attackers, Arbor Networks' Q3 traffic report has noticed.
John E. Dunn |
09 Oct |
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The Bugzilla open source flaw-tracking platform has patched a potentially disastrous security flaw that would have allowed an attacker to subvert the developer registration process in order to gain privileged access to information on zero days submitted to the site.
John E. Dunn |
08 Oct |
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