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2017-07-20 10:28:40 | Thales: As GDPR approaches, retail data breaches remain unacceptably high (lien direct) | Two in five retailers across the globe have experienced a data breach in the past year, according to the 2017 Thales Data Threat Report, Retail Edition, released today. The report, issued by Thales, a leader in critical information systems, cybersecurity and data security, in conjunction with analyst firm 451 Research, reveals that a staggering ... | Guideline | ||
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2017-07-20 10:25:28 | 2017: The Year of the CISO (lien direct) | The role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is a comparatively new one in both the IT industry and enterprise. Yet, CISOs are arguably the most important technology stakeholder working in businesses today - dealing with a myriad of risks, threats, breaches, policies, regulations and user behaviour. These responsibilities are as complicated as they ... | ★★ | ||
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2017-07-20 10:22:05 | The race to own the home (lien direct) | More and more connected devices are released onto the market every day, making the futuristic utopia of the sixties cartoon series The Jetsons, now seem an imminent reality. Hanna-Barbera's futuristic imagination brought robots, holograms and flying cars to our TV screens. Over 50 years later, robots are entering our homes, holograms are taking the place ... | |||
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2017-07-20 10:20:13 | If you use Wi-Fi on your iOS device, get this security update (lien direct) | Apple released a security patch on Wednesday that you should really consider updating to if you enjoy using Wi-Fi on your iOS devices. So, you know, just about everybody should update. The iOS 10.3.3 update addresses vulnerabilities with your Contacts, Messages, Notifications, Safari and other issues. One of the more potentially damaging exploits was hidden in the ... | |||
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2017-07-20 10:19:00 | Russian man who helped develop Citadel malware gets 5 years (lien direct) | A Russian man who prosecutors say helped develop and distribute malware designed to steal personal financial information was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison. Mark Vartanyan, also known as “Kolypto,” was sentenced by US District Court Judge Mark Cohen in Atlanta after pleading guilty in March to computer fraud, federal prosecutors said. Vartanyan received two years ... | Guideline | ||
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2017-07-20 10:11:46 | TSB to roll out iris scanning tech (lien direct) | Imagine logging onto your bank account just by glancing at your phone. That’s what some TSB customers will be able to do from September when the bank introduces iris recognition to its mobile banking app. It will be the first bank in Europe to introduce the technology, but its arrival will test customers’ trust in ... | |||
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2017-07-19 09:43:48 | Google rolls out new protections against phishing plugins (lien direct) | Google is making it even harder to accidentally install a malicious plugin. Today, the company announced new changes to the way Google services handle plugins, adding new warnings for users and a more involved verification system for apps. The result is more scrutiny on apps plugging into Google services, and more active involvement from Google when ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-07-19 09:42:27 | Newcastle council leaks details of adopted children and their families (lien direct) | Details of thousands of children and their adoptive parents have been leaked by Newcastle city council workers who accidentally attached them to invitations for a summer party. The council admitted the adoption data breach, which it blamed on “human errorâ€, and apologised. It has taken steps to contact all those involved. It could face a ... | |||
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2017-07-19 09:40:42 | Russians hacked energy companies on election day, GCHQ claims (lien direct) | Britain's energy companies were hacked on the day of the General Election by computer criminals believed to have been backed by Russia. The Government's electronic spy agency GCHQ said in an official report sent to the energy sector that companies “are likely to have been compromised†in the wake of the attack launched on June 8. The report accuses “state-sponsored ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-07-19 09:39:20 | Britain\'s cyber security center says has never certified Kaspersky products (lien direct) | Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre said on Tuesday it had never certified products from Russian cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab. “The NCSC certifies products through a range of initiatives, and vendors apply to have their products certified via one of our accredited lab partners,” the NCSC, which is part of Britain’s GCHQ eavesdropping security agency, ... | |||
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2017-07-19 09:37:58 | White House \'rumoured to close State Department\'s only cyber security office\' as top diplomat quits (lien direct) | It has been reported that the cyber security office in the State Department may be closed as its top diplomat quits. Christopher Painter, the Coordinator for Cyber Issues, is leaving his post at the end of the month after well over two decades of leadership on the issue, per Politico. The news outlet also reported that ... | Guideline | ||
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2017-07-19 09:33:05 | A Third of Security Professionals Under-Prepared to Defend Cyber Threats (lien direct) | One in three (32%) security professionals lack effective intelligence to detect and action cyber threats, according to a new survey* from Anomali, the provider of market-leading threat intelligence platforms. The results also revealed that almost a quarter (24%) believe they are at least one year behind the average threat actor, with half of this sample ... | Guideline | ||
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2017-07-19 09:25:52 | WannaCry Fallout: 80% of Brits more worried about how organisations store their data following latest attacks (lien direct) | New research by leading information security company Clearswift shows how attitudes to cyber security have changed in the boardroom and among staff in the wake of the recent WannaCry attack, surveying 600 business decision makers and 1,200 employees across the UK, US, Germany and Australia. Within a day the WannaCry attack, which affected major ... | Guideline | Wannacry | |
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2017-07-19 09:23:13 | MSPs Are At Risk of Getting Stuck in a Cybersecurity Rut, Kaspersky Lab Report Warns (lien direct) | As the global managed services market is expected to reach £187 billion by the end of 2022, cybersecurity is no longer seen as a separate or optional function among MSPs. Instead, it has become an integral part of the IT services they deliver - with customer satisfaction, and the ability to keep security incidents to ... | |||
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2017-07-18 09:57:43 | Dow Jones data leak: Over 2 million customers\' personal details exposed in cloud storage error (lien direct) | The sensitive personal and financial details of nearly 2.2 million Dow Jones & Co. customers were inadvertently exposed due to a configuration error on a cloud storage server, the publication confirmed on Monday. The exposed data included the names, addresses, account information, email addresses and last four digits of credit card numbers of millions of ... | |||
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2017-07-18 09:25:03 | A UK business will spend more than £1m recovering from a data security breach – NTT Security 2017 Risk:Value (lien direct) | The cost of recovering from of a security breach for UK organisations has been estimated in a new report launched today by NTT Security, the specialised security company of NTT Group. The 2017 Risk:Value report, the company's third annual study of business decision makers' attitudes to risk and the value of information security to global ... | ★★ | ||
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2017-07-18 09:23:02 | Sonatype 2017 State of the Software Supply Chain Report: DevOps Practices Reduce Use of Defective Open Source Components by 63% (lien direct) | Sonatype, the leader in software supply chain automation, today announced the release of its third annual State of the Software Supply Chain Report. This year's report highlights risks lurking within open source software components and quantifies the empirical benefits of actively managing software supply chain hygiene. Organizations that are actively managing the quality of ... | Guideline | ★★ | |
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2017-07-18 09:08:31 | How do SMEs fight off cyber-attacks? (lien direct) | In this article I want to address some of the concerns that small and medium sized enterprises may have around cybersecurity, especially in the wake of the WannaCry ransomware attack and a continuous news flow around successful attacks on high profile companies. Does the fact that well-known brands are successfully attacked and breached mean that ... | Wannacry | ★★★★★ | |
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2017-07-17 10:49:43 | IBM Mainframe Ushers in New Era of Data Protection (lien direct) | IBM today unveiled IBM Z, the next generation of the world's most powerful transaction system, capable of running more than 12 billion encrypted transactions per day. The new system also introduces a breakthrough encryption engine that, for the first time, makes it possible to pervasively encrypt data associated with any application, cloud service or database ... | |||
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2017-07-17 10:30:45 | Security Serious Interview with Quentyn Taylor: Security Leader Winner 2016 (lien direct) | I got on the phone with Quentyn Taylor, Director of Information Security EMEA for Canon Europe and we had a friendly chat about his participation in last year's Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards where he won the Security Leader Award. As always, Quentyn is extra polite and he encourages our team to “keep up the good ... | Guideline | ||
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2017-07-17 10:15:47 | Regulator and CSO in stand-off over mobile data (lien direct) | An extraordinary stand-off has emerged between the State's official statistics body and the data protection watchdog over a plan by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) to force mobile phone network providers to hand over roaming data about tourists and Irish residents travelling abroad. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Irish Times | |||
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2017-07-17 10:14:45 | Ashley Madison throws US$11.2m on the bed to mop up leak affair (lien direct) | Dating site for cheaters Ashley Madison has thrown US$11.2 million on the bed to make its 2015 data leak go away. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register | |||
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2017-07-17 10:12:09 | Did you receive a WhatsApp subscription ending email or text? Watch out! It is a scam to steal your payment and personal data (lien direct) | Researcher Graham Cluley is warning of bogus 'WhatsApp subscription ending' emails and texts. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Security Affairs | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-07-17 10:10:26 | One in four workers have hidden cyber security incidents from employers (lien direct) | One in four workers have hidden cyber security incidents from their employers in order to avoid punishment, according to a new report exploring the human side of security. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Dof Online | |||
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2017-07-14 14:22:55 | Study finds gaps in security analysts\' malware knowledge (lien direct) | Malware detection firm Lastline has today announced the results of a survey conducted with 326 cyber security professionals that tested their knowledge of malware and current cyber threats. Respondents were asked to identify different malware behaviours. The overwhelming majority were aware that malware can turn a webcam on to see if anyone is sitting in ... | ★★★ | ||
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2017-07-14 11:06:05 | Wikileaks Vault 7: Latest Documents Show Android Malware From CIA (lien direct) | Wikileaks published another set of documents Thursday. The latest release of files purportedly from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) details a piece of malicious software for Android devices. The malware, referred to as Highrise, can redirect or intercept text messages sent to a target's phone, allowing a CIA agent to access it before it ... | |||
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2017-07-14 11:03:54 | No big deal. You can defeat Kaspersky\'s ATM antivirus with a really fat executable (lien direct) | Flaws have been found and fixed in Kaspersky Lab’s security software for cash machines and other embedded systems. Hackers can exploit the bugs to circumvent anti-malware defenses in ATMs. Although Kaspersky responded promptly to the discovery and developed and released a patch, one wonders how long it will take for the updates to be installed ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-07-14 11:02:37 | Petya malware behavior may change based on AV installed (lien direct) | Researchers found changes in malware behavior when Petya detected certain security products, but experts are unsure why these features might exist. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Search Security | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-07-14 11:01:00 | Hackers incorporating legitimate software to increase a malware\'s potential (lien direct) | Malwarebytes has discovered a new cyberattack modus operandi that has hackers incorporating legitimate apps into their malware to make it stronger and accomplish specific tasks. Although the cybersecurity firm did not name the malware used as an example in its report, the company did note that this hacking methodology is representative of what is happening ... | ★★ | ||
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2017-07-14 10:59:21 | Petya Cyber Attack Likely Done by \'State Sponsor\' (lien direct) | Instances of ransomware attacks are only increasing. It seems like every week recently, news breaks of a new cyber attack, and each one has more serious ramifications than its predecessors. In many such attacks, either the hackers themselves or cybersecurity experts manage to trace the origin of the hack. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Security ... | ★★ | ||
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2017-07-14 10:57:07 | Bupa Data Breach hits over 500,000 customers – cyber security experts have their say (lien direct) | Bupa healthcare was hit by a data breach after one of its employees went rogue and inappropriately copied and removed information relating to 547,000 international health care plan customers. Names, dates of birth, nationalities, some contact and administrative information were among the data leaked. No financial or medical data has been exposed and the relevant victims ... | |||
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2017-07-14 10:34:44 | Imperva Insider Threats Study Finds More than Half of IT Security Professionals Are Concerned About Careless Users Putting Data at Risk (lien direct) | Imperva, Inc., committed to protecting business-critical data and applications in the cloud and on-premises, today announced the results of a survey of 310 IT security professionals taken at the Infosecurity Europe trade show. The survey found that when it comes to insider threats, over half (58 percent) of IT security professionals were deeply concerned, not ... | |||
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2017-07-14 10:30:25 | Corero Announces Edinburgh Office Expansion to fuel DDoS Research & Development (lien direct) | Corero Network Security, the leading provider of real-time DDoS defence solutions, today announced plans to expand its Research & Development office by doubling the number of engineers in the Edinburgh, UK office location. The office expansion reinforces Corero's commitment to innovation within the DDoS mitigation market with real-time, automated DDoS defence solutions. Julian Palmer, ... | Guideline | ||
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2017-07-13 16:31:41 | Lastline Secures $28.5M in Latest Funding Round (lien direct) | Advanced malware protection firm Lastline announced it has secured $28.5 million in its latest round of funding led by Thomvest Ventures. The round also includes investments from Osage University Partners, Redpoint Ventures and other current investors, and strategic investors Barracuda Networks, Inc., NTT Finance Corporation, and WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. The Series C funding will be ... | |||
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2017-07-13 11:22:20 | New Survey Reveals 97% Cybersecurity Professionals Find Job Rewarding Despite Long Hours (lien direct) | A new survey by Farsight Security, Inc., has found that over half (57%) of IT security professionals work weekends and, on average, nearly a third (29%) work ten hours a day. Despite the overtime, nearly all (97%) said that they still find their job rewarding and plan to stay in security (85%). The respondents' enthusiasm ... | |||
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2017-07-13 10:30:10 | AGFEO smart home controllers need patching (lien direct) | Smart-home controllers from German company AGFEO have adopted best practice internet things security by offering an unsecured Web admin interface. The now-patched attack vectors included unauthenticated access to some services, authentication bypass, cross-site scripting (XSS) vulns, and hard-coded cryptographic keys. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register | |||
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2017-07-13 10:29:00 | (Déjà vu) NEW POINT-OF-SALE MALWARE LOCKPOS HITCHES RIDE WITH FLOKIBOT (lien direct) | Botnets distributing FlokiBot point-of-sale malware have awoken from months of slumber and are back in business spewing a new malware dubbed LockPoS. Researchers say the malware is still flying under the radar of many antivirus and intrusion detection systems because it's so new. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ThreatPost | |||
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2017-07-13 10:27:45 | Hospitals to receive £21m to increase cybersecurity at major trauma centres (lien direct) | Hospitals responsible for treating patients from major incidents including terrorist attacks will receive £21m to beef up their cybersecurity in the wake of the WannaCry assault on NHS IT systems. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Guardian | Wannacry | ||
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2017-07-13 10:24:59 | The UK\'s 13 most promising cybersecurity startups (lien direct) | Historically, the UK has struggled to found cybersecurity companies but that has recently started to turn change. What defines a pure startup is contentious but here we've decided to limit our horizon to the last five years (roughly since 2011) in an effort to sift the fresh from the established and to capture startups that ... | |||
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2017-07-13 10:22:00 | My Time at Infosec Europe 2017 (lien direct) | If you attended Infosec in London last month, you may have seen the panel discussion that I was part of. It took place on the exhibition floor and was also streamed throughout the show. The topic was social engineering and I was sharing the stage with a number of experts on the subject. One of ... | |||
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2017-07-13 10:09:08 | Cyber security training must reflect real risks (lien direct) | The Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP) – the not-for-profit body that represents information security professionals – is warning companies to invest wisely in cyber security training services with an eye on quality and real benefits. Following the recent wave of global cyber attacks, the IISP believes that inexperienced or narrowly-focussed training providers may jump ... | |||
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2017-07-13 10:04:29 | 1 in 4 Voters in the US May Skip 2018 Midterm Elections Over Hacking Fears (lien direct) | United States voters have had no shortage of cybersecurity news related to elections in recent months, ranging from allegations of Russian interference to revelations that specific states were targeted in attack campaigns. Among some of the frequent topics being discussed in the news have been political infighting, conjecture regarding collusion, and questions about what's being done to prepare ... | |||
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2017-07-12 15:51:17 | Cybersecurity Industry feels GDPR is Stifling Innovation (lien direct) | The cybersecurity industry believes that the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is stifling innovation according to the latest survey carried out by AlienVault, a leading crowdsourced threat intelligence provider. In a recent survey of over 900 conference participants at Infosecurity Europe, almost half (49%) of respondents said that the threat of GDPR fines is ... | Guideline | ★★★ | |
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2017-07-12 11:22:56 | How SpyDealer Malware Hacks Your Facebook, WhatsApp, Web Browser, And Other Android Apps (lien direct) | The security researchers have identified a malware named SpyDealer, which affects Android smartphones running Android versions between 4.4 KitKat and 2.2 Froyo. SpyDealer abuses a popular rooting app to gain root permissions. After that, the malware gets the power to exfiltrate private data from more than 40 apps, including Facebook, WhatsApp, etc. View Full Story ... | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-07-12 11:21:06 | Hackers able to turbo-charge DJI drones way beyond what\'s legal (lien direct) | Drone hackers in the UK are busy at work exploiting the application security shortcomings of a major manufacturer to circumvent restrictions, including flight elevation limits. DJI says it has pushed out a firmware update to nip the problem in the bud, but one expert The Register spoke to maintains that hacking is still possible. View Full Story ... | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-07-12 11:16:27 | Apple is going to set up a data centre in China to meet strict new cybersecurity rules (lien direct) | Apple Inc on Wednesday said it is setting up its first data centre in China, in partnership with a local internet services company, to comply with tougher cyber-security laws introduced last month. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Business Insider | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-07-12 11:15:15 | Hackers have been stealing credit card numbers from Trump\'s hotels for months (lien direct) | Guests at 14 Trump properties, including hotels in Washington, New York and Vancouver, have had their credit card information exposed, marking the third time in as many years that a months-long security breach has affected customers of the chain of luxury hotels. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Washington Post | ★★★ | ||
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2017-07-12 11:13:53 | Consumer distrust harming technological innovation in the UK, warns SQS (lien direct) | The continuous threat of malicious cyber-attacks and safety issues are severely affecting the adoption rate of innovative technology in the UK. Technological developments such as artificial intelligence (AI) are being snubbed due to concerns over hacking and the safety of AI driven devices. The public's reluctance to buy into the latest tech products could see ... | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-07-12 11:12:20 | Third of the UK Public not aware of the security policies implemented by their company (lien direct) | According to a recent survey conducted by Expert Security UK, almost a third of the UK public are not aware of the safety and security policies implemented by the company they work for. With latest news of the global Petya ransomware attacks from Ukraine and NHS 'WannaCry' cyber-attacks, it should come as no surprise. For businesses, the consequences are ... | Wannacry | ★★ | |
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2017-07-11 10:56:49 | Are businesses over confident in their cyber security capabilities? (lien direct) | With the number of data breaches increasing and nearly 1.4 billion data records lost or stolen last year, it's never been more important that businesses have confidence in their cyber security solutions, and understand which technologies best protect them. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Information Age |
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