DDoS attackers seem to have switched their attention from banks to gaming hosts, ISPs and even enterprises, half-year figures from Chinese mitigation vendor NSFOCUS have confirmed.
John E. Dunn |
23 Sep |
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Researchers have built a proof-of concept security system that can accurately sift real websites from malicious ones by looking for only two simple giveaway ‘signals' – content obfuscation and the use of bogus online certifications.
John E. Dunn |
23 Sep |
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Forget the next-generation firewall story, Cisco is telling its customers that the next wave is something that goes far beyond mere application control by integrating intrusion protection and malware detection and control into one box.
John E. Dunn |
22 Sep |
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The UK Government has appointed Andy Williams from industry body TechUK as its first ever SME cyber-czar and pumped £4 million into a competition for small firms looking to develop new security technology.
John E. Dunn |
18 Sep |
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More than a decade on from the ground-breaking CAN-SPAM laws meant to stop the barrage of unwanted email pestering US consumers, one in ten firms still falls foul of its most basic provisions, according to a study by the non-profit Online Trust Alliance (OTA).
John E. Dunn |
18 Sep |
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A sizable majority of Scottish academics working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects plan to vote ‘no' in this week's referendum citing worries over future UK research funding, a poll for the Times Higher Education has found.
John E. Dunn |
17 Sep |
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Online banking losses in the UK reached nearly £30 million ($48 million) in the first half of 2014, as criminals targeted the accounts of businesses that allow higher-value transfers, according to banking organisation Financial Fraud Action UK (FFA).
John E. Dunn |
16 Sep |
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Wikileaks has released what it claims are previously unknown fourth-generation versions of the controversial ‘government' FinFisher spyware, lambasting the German Government for allowing it to be sold to "some of the most abusive regimes in the world."
John E. Dunn |
16 Sep |
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Research by security firm Proofpoint has discovered something unexpected about the flood of spam sent to users in the UK – more of these emails seem to contain malicious links than for other countries.
John E. Dunn |
12 Sep |
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The UK's £860 million National Cyber Security Programme has so far failed to deliver the expected economic benefits for businesses, the latest progress report from the National Audit Office (NAO) has found. Businesses might also not be sharing enough threat information.
John E. Dunn |
12 Sep |
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The recently-launched Cyber Threat Alliance has been given a big boost with the news that Intel's McAfee division and former arch-enemy Symantec are to join the industry group whose mission is to create the first significant cross-vendor movement of threat data.
John E. Dunn |
11 Sep |
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With DDoS reflection attacks growing into mammoth events with unforeseen consequences, mitigation firm Verisign believes a radical new approach is needed to head off a pile of trouble – go after the "guys behind the keyboards."
John E. Dunn |
10 Sep |
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Researchers checking out the $629 (£390) Blackphone ultra-secure Android smartphone recently found a potentially significant vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to carry out a man-in-the-middle (MitM) to sniff the login credentials for the device's Silent Circle apps.
John E. Dunn |
10 Sep |
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Dutch security firm Fox-It has received 546 requests to decrypt files from UK-based victims of the CryptoLocker ransom Trojan since it launched a free unlock service last month, the highest proportion from any country.
John E. Dunn |
06 Sep |
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A botnet that infects and exploits poorly-maintained Linux servers has been used to launch a spate of large DDoS attacks targeting DNS and other infrastructure, Akamai's Prolexic division has warned.
John E. Dunn |
05 Sep |
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