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itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-17 10:26:50 Cyber Degree Bursary still available from NCSC (lien direct) >The NCSC is calling out any students looking to go to university to apply for there £4,000 CyberFirst student bursary. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Enterprise Times ★★★★
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-17 10:22:19 A city is US still suffering from ransomware attack (lien direct) >A city in Tennessee is still suffering from a ransomware attack after refusing to pay the $250,000 ransom demand. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: SC Magazine
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-17 10:05:39 Data-Driven DDoS Defence Decision Making (lien direct) >The unrelenting wave of multi-vector DDoS attacks has blossomed into a full-fledged systemic problem for organisations of all sizes. And it shows no signs of slowing. To calm the mounting concern over inadequate multi-vector DDoS protection and defence capacity, organisations find themselves tapping already strapped budgets to increase spending on DDoS detection and mitigation. In ... ★★★★
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-16 15:10:55 Cyber Security Summit & Expo is well under way (lien direct) There has been a very strong start to the Cyber Security Summit & Expo, taking place at the London Business Design Centre. Speakers so far at largest one-day UK event dedicated to Cyber Security have included Mark Sayers, Deputy Director in Cyber and Government Security at the Cabinet Office, who told delegates that the fight ...
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-16 11:18:46 (Déjà vu) Nearly 2,000 Jewson customer exposed after breach (lien direct) >Building suppliers,  Jewson has warned their customers that their details may have been compromised following a data breach. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Inquirer ★★★
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-16 10:46:27 Cash converter hit by data breach (lien direct) >Cash Converters International, the payday lending and pawnbroking business, has declared it has suffered a cybersecurity breach in its UK locations. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Fool ★★
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-16 10:10:59 Should you fear the Reaper? (lien direct) >Move over Mirai, there's a new monstrous botnet in town. The newly-discovered botnet, dubbed “Reaper” or “IoTroop,” appears to be a more powerful strain of the Internet of Things (IoT) attack malware that Mirai was, the previous holder of the IoT botnet crown. And while Reaper hasn't yet to launch an attack, security researchers warn ... Cloud APT 37 ★★
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-16 10:03:26 New Service Station lets you minimize card administration costs (lien direct) >Identity and security company Nexus Group launches the Nexus Service Station. “It lets your users administer a range of tasks required during the lifecycle of their access cards, such as ordering new cards, entering user data and taking photos. This means that your card administration costs can be dramatically reduced,” says Anders Wallbom, product owner ... ★★★★
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-16 10:02:05 EU REGULATION, SKILLS AND GOVERNANCE NOW CHALLENGE UK\'S LEADERSHIP OF \'FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION\' (lien direct) >Big Data London (BDL), the UK's largest exhibition and conference for data leaders, today revealed the first findings from the inaugural UK Fourth Industrial Revolution Report. The independent research, sponsored by Big Data LDN and Hortonworks, surveyed how 250 of the UK's largest data-driven organisations are coping with pre-Brexit pressure to compete against data-savvy competitors ... Guideline ★★★
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-15 11:27:09 (Déjà vu) Elections in 18 nations hacked online (lien direct) >It has been discovered that voting in at least 18 countries may have been manipulated by external campaigns. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Silicon Republic ★★★★★
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-15 11:17:24 NHS need to invest seriously into cybersecurity (lien direct) >NHS could save £15 million annually if it invested in cybersecurity after Palo Alto Networks advised  NHS IT Managers the significance of cyber security. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Computing
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-15 11:05:09 Child fools Mums Iphone X security (lien direct) >By just glancing at the latest Apple Iphone X, a child has managed to unlock his mum’s phone throwing more shade on the security mechanism. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Hot For Security
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-15 10:54:43 Forever 21 suffers data breach (lien direct) >US Fashion retailer Forever 21 is currently investigating a potential data breach, with customer payment details thought to have been compromised. Full Story Here ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-15 10:29:35 Security researchers in Vietnam have fooled Iphone X face ID security – cybersecurity experts have their say (lien direct) >Bkav, a Vietnamese cybersecurity firm have demonstrated how they bypassed Apple Inc’s face recognition ID software on the new Iphone X by using a mask made out of silicone, paper tape and a 3D printer.  A video demonstrating how the security researcher fooled the face ID security has since been uploaded. Although these are some extreme ... ★★★
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-15 10:01:53 Several MailChimp Accounts Compromised as Phishing Attack Impersonates Major Brands – Aldi, Bunnings, Amcal and Others (lien direct) >In the latest example of brandjacking, this evening we are seeing a run of phishing emails impersonating major retail brands. The criminal emails are leveraging several different compromised MailChimp accounts to bypass traditional email scanning software, and then using the power of major household name brands to entice users to click.   Despite being simple ...
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-15 10:00:22 Token and Envestnet | Yodlee Announce Strategic Open Banking Partnership (lien direct) >– Token, Inc., a turnkey open banking platform provider, and Envestnet | Yodlee (NYSE: ENV), a leading data aggregation and data analytics platform powering dynamic, cloud-based innovation for digital financial services, today announced a strategic partnership to combine their expertise in PSD2-compliant payments and financial data aggregation. Token's open banking operating system, TokenOSâ„¢, enables banks ... Guideline
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-14 12:31:06 NHS IT Managers Cite Prioritizing Cybersecurity as Essential to Improving Patient Trust and Care (lien direct) >Palo Alto Networks®, the next-generation security company, has today released findings of independent research into the state of cybersecurity within the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS). Working with Vanson Bourne, 100 NHS IT decision-makers were surveyed on the importance of data security in the wake of recent cyberattacks, preparedness for forthcoming tougher data protection ...
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-14 12:27:45 Things That Go Bump in the Night (or in Encrypted Traffic) (lien direct) >Halloween is finally here. It is the perfect time to grab your metaphorical flashlight and hunt down the ghosts and goblins (a.k.a. malware and threats) lurking in your network, hidden by the shadows of encrypted traffic. According to industry experts, roughly 70 percent of internet traffic is encrypted. On the surface, that may not sound ...
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-14 12:25:57 Flowmon to address security challenges in SCADA/IoT environment (lien direct) >With years of experience in network monitoring and anomaly detection, Flowmon strengthens its operations in the field of SCADA/IoT security. The security challenges that SCADA/IoT face are ones that Flowmon's universal network approach can take in its stride. The proper functioning of industrial control systems lies behind crucial processes, such as energy distribution, water management ...
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-14 10:46:33 Vectra 2018 Cyber Security predictions (lien direct) >  Ransomware attack trends will split based on motives   Ransomware as a disruptive or destructive attack will increase. Cyber warcraft is the new oil – in essence, total control of corporate networks or industrial plants have become as valuable as energy resources and motivate nation states. However, we will see a decrease in ransomware ...
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-13 12:04:34 Cybersecurity wages rise (lien direct) >Due to the current cybersecurity skills shortage, the average wage for a cybersecurity worker has increased by 10.5%. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: TEISS
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-13 11:51:34 Iphone X Face ID security broken already (lien direct) >It has taken long for security researchers to break the new Face ID for Iphone X. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Metro
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-13 11:48:15 WARNING: WW3 could start next year! (lien direct) >A retired US war general has claimed that there is a 51 percent chance of a war involving North Korea breaking out before next summer. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Express ★★★★
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-13 11:44:18 Antivirus software distributing Malware (lien direct) >Security researchers have discovered that an antivirus software is being exploited by malware which allows a user to move a piece of malware from the quarantined folder to somewhere else on the victim's computer, allowing the malware to be executed.  View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Digital Trends ★★
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-13 11:18:58 Is your CCTV system GDPR compliant? (lien direct) >Organisations are putting themselves at risk of breaching the GDPR because they're failing to realise that the new regulations cover their CCTV systems and the visual data they collect. These are the words of Andrew Charlesworth, Reader in IT Law at the University of Bristol, and come just over six months until the GDPR becomes ... ★★
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-13 11:16:18 Game over: most women have decided against a career in cybersecurity before they\'re 16 (lien direct) >By the time they are 15¾, most young women in Europe, Israel, and the US have already decided against a career in cybersecurity.[1] This, according to a new study by Kaspersky Lab, is a major contributing factor to the industry's continued struggle to attract female recruits, as it attempts to both narrow the gender gap ... ★★★★★
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-13 11:14:52 UK Infrastructure: Digital growth opportunities could stall without greater appetite for risk (lien direct) >A new report by design, engineering and project management consultancy, Atkins, has found that a risk adverse culture within the infrastructure sector and a lack of certainty about which new technologies to invest in could cost the UK millions of pounds in efficiency savings and restrict the ability of its businesses to capitalise on the ...
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-10 11:52:59 The Rise of IoT will increase security threats to healthcare industry (lien direct) >Those in the healthcare and life sciences industries should be wary of the security risks associated with connected IoT technologies as they begin to integrate them across their systems according to Unisys. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Help Net Security ★★★★★
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-10 11:43:05 Fancy Bear found distributing malware again (lien direct) >The Russian linked hacking group Fancy Bear has been discovered in delivering malware to targeted users by exposing a recently disclosed technique that involves Microsoft Windows feature Dynamic Data Exchange. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Security Week APT 28
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-10 11:28:29 $87 million – that\'s how much the data breach cost Equifax (lien direct) Equifax has disclosed the cost of the data breach that the company suffered this year which amounted to $87m and saw a 30% plunge in stock price. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Security Ledger Equifax
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-10 11:14:59 New Ransomware discovered that intentionally destroys files (lien direct) >Ordinypt, a newly discovered ransomware strain, is currently targeting victims in Germany and is rewriting files with random data. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: BleepingComputer
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-10 10:08:07 Data Privacy: securing the key to digitalization (lien direct) >Data is the gold dust of the 21st century, and with the amount of that data set to double every two years (reaching 44 trillion gigabytes by 2020), it's allowing organisations of all sizes to open up opportunities to truly understand their customers. For instance, analysing data in near real-time and acting on insights to ...
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-10 09:57:32 IntSights Report: Cybercriminals Embrace Messaging Apps to Expand Reach and Recruitment (lien direct) >IntSights Cyber Intelligence, the industry's first and only enterprise threat management provider that transforms tailored threat intelligence into automated security operations, today released its latest threat intelligence trend report, Messaging Applications: The New Dark Web. The research suggests that the recent crackdown on popular dark web markets AlphaBay and Hansa is driving cybercriminals to migrate ... ★★★★★
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-10 09:55:13 Capgemini and LinkedIn release new report on the digital talent gap: Employees are investing their own resources to remain competitive (lien direct) >Capgemini, in conjunction with LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network, today released a new global report on the digital talent gap, which analyses the demand and supply of talent with specific digital skills and the availability of digital roles across multiple industries and countries. The report, “The Digital Talent Gap-Are Companies Doing Enough?” reveals the ...
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-09 10:53:40 Netflix scam detected (lien direct) >Millions of people who hold a Netflix account are currently exposed to the latest email phishing scam that is telling users that their account is suspended due to a problem validating their credit cards. Beware – this is a scam. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Inc.com ★★
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-09 10:44:44 Financial sector most at cyber risk says Europol (lien direct) >The Head of Europol has described the 4,000 ransom attacks a day by cyber gangs as remorseless as technological advances are now threatening critical parts of the financial sector. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Reuters
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-09 10:36:35 Backdoored IP scanner tricks hackers (lien direct) >It was found that hackers, who were looking to create their own version of the Reaper botnet, downloaded an IP scanner which was a PHP file that was made available as a free download after news about Reaper botnet broke. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: BleepingComputer Cloud APT 37
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-09 10:30:28 Google fighting against Malvertising (lien direct) >Google has released three new Chrome security features that are designed to block websites from transferring users to new URLs without the consent of the user or website. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: BleepingComputer ★★★
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-09 10:26:24 Difficult for Corporations to Stop Breaches (lien direct) >Yahoo’s former CEO testified at a Senate hearing stating it was tough for any corporation to stop or defend against cyberattacks that come from nation-states. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Data Breach Today Yahoo ★★
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-09 10:01:07 Three Keys to DDoS Defence: Monitor, Protect, Communicate (lien direct) >In late 2016, the DDoS landscape changed. The Mirai botnet was responsible for the first DDoS attack on record to exceed 1 Tbps. Before that, the largest was around 600 Gbps. At that same time, the overall size and frequency of DDoS attacks continued to climb. A recent IDG Connect report found attacks of greater than 50 Gbps ... ★★★★★
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-09 09:53:42 A third of the UK plans to grab a bargain this Cyber Monday (lien direct) > DomainTools, the leader in domain name and DNS-based cyber threat intelligence, today announced the results of a survey which found that nearly all (98 percent) of the UK population shops online and nearly a third (29 percent) plans to shop on Cyber Monday. This is despite the fact that one in five admitted to having ... Guideline ★★★
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-09 09:30:40 AlienVault Partners with ConnectWise On New Product Integration (lien direct) >At the ConnectWise IT Nation Conference,  AlienVault®, a leading provider of Unified Security Management® and crowd-sourced threat intelligence, and ConnectWise®, a company that transforms how technology solution providers build, manage, and grow their businesses, announced a new product integration. This partnership makes AlienVault USM Anywhereâ„¢ available to ConnectWise technology solution providers (TSPs) within ConnectWise Manageâ„¢, ... Guideline ★★★
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-08 16:52:29 Hackers targeted Democrats Right Until End of Election (lien direct) >Former interim DNC chief has revealed that hacks against the Democratic party continued for months after election, and targeted some of the Parties most closely guarded secrets. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: AP News
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-08 16:49:10 Cybersecurity Center Issues Warning RE \'The Dark Overlord\' (lien direct) The UK Cyber Security Center has issued a warning RE the Dark Overlord, who continues to hack into organisations websites, holding them to ransom, and causing widespread chaos. Read Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bank InfoSecurity
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-08 16:45:37 $300 Million Worth of Ethereum Funds Accidentally Locked Away (lien direct) >A single user has accidentally, but permanently, locked away $300 worth of users Erthereum.   Read Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Motherboard
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-08 10:36:47 Cyber Security – best practice for healthcare (lien direct) >The healthcare sector must have its finger on the pulse when it comes to Cyber Security. The ransomware attack that left the NHS reeling this summer not only exposed significant structural weaknesses in the service's IT systems, but also the depth to which cybercriminals will sink to meet their goals. With such precious work as ...
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-07 11:37:40 Three Security Predictions (lien direct) >Three security predictions from Kai Grunwitz, Senior Vice President EMEA, NTT Security:   DevSecOps in the age of the cloud DevOps is an increasingly popular development practice allowing organisations to increase the speed at which they produce apps and services. An unfortunate side effect of this process is that you might also be accelerating the ...
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-07 11:32:30 Putting your head in the cloud to become GDPR compliant (lien direct) >GDPR is coming and is set to have a huge impact on UK businesses. From high-tech to agriculture, every modern business has huge volumes of data that will have to be stored, secured and managed in a way that is compliant with the new regulation.  That's all very well and good if you are a ...
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-07 11:27:15 Can you prevent the mega breach? (lien direct) >The threat landscape today is more complex and more dangerous than it has ever been. Where once hackers tended to operate individually, now organisations face much more sophisticated threats from organised eCriminal groups, hacktivists, and nation-state adversaries. The immense resources and know-how that these cybercriminals can deploy means that organisations need to update their approach ...
itsecurityguru.webp 2017-11-07 10:49:23 NATO Working on “Special Doctrine” for Cyber Op\'s (lien direct) NATO is working towards bolstering their cyber defenses, an official has said. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Hill
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