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Researchers at Trend Micro believe the campaign may have infected nearly 12,000 users in more than 100 different countries
Recent problems with revoking SSL certificates have renewed discussion on whether the certificate system is still sufficient to protect users on the Internet.
Iran is tightening control of the Internet ahead of next month's presidential election, mindful of violent street protests that social networkers inspired last time around over claims of fraud, users and experts say.
Yahoo Japan suspects up to 22 million user IDs may have been stolen during an unauthorised attempt to access the administrative system of its Yahoo! Japan portal.
US authorities seized the accounts of a Bitcoin digital currency exchange operator, claiming it was functioning as an
"unlicensed money service business," court documents showed
Several government Internet sites have come under "coordinated and simultaneous" cyber attack, an information security spokesman in the oil-rich kingdom reported.
Italian police on Friday arrested four alleged hackers believed to belong to the activist group Anonymous for attacking websites, including those of the Vatican and the parliament in Rome.
The website of Britain's Financial Times appeared to have been hacked on Friday by the Syrian Electronic Army.
Researchers at ESET have discovered a targeted campaign in Pakistan, which is attempting to compromise sensitive information from various organizations. While limited, traces of the same attack have also been discovered in other parts of the globe.
Researchers at Zscaler have discovered a fake YouTube page that is hosting malicious Chrome extensions. Such pages, as seen in the past, prey on the uninformed users with poorly patched systems to spread malware.
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Despite the billions of dollars spent annually by government and private industry to protect their networks and critical data assets, the large majority of breaches can be tied directly to human error and/or a breakdown in protocol.
Without the internal and external safeguards working in conjunction, your vulnerability will spike and your performance will suffer as a by-product -- two things you can’t afford to have happen.
In order to win the war with today’s cybercriminals that are using the same attack vectors on a massive scale, a real-time, automated information platform that pre-empts ongoing attacks is an imperative.
Trust comes at a price. However, while IT security professionals understand this, they often treat trust as an afterthought. As a result, companies suffer the consequences in unexpected recovery costs and failed business relationships.
Even the most security diligent organizations realize that breaches are no longer a question of ‘if’ but a question of ‘when.’ Preparing for a cyber attack must include containing the damage and more rapidly restoring systems to trusted states.
Today’s businesses must be able to rapidly adapt to changing market conditions – to support a new venture, merger/acquisition, etc. As business needs change, so too must the underlying security policies.
Being in a public place makes you fair game. So what makes a place private instead of public? This is where that famed “reasonable person” comes in.
We can assume Bitcoin will be followed by Bitcoin 2.0 that will solve Bitcoin 1.0 problems while maintaining the parts that were crucial to its success. But what exactly are these crucial elements?
As we define what may arguably be the “next big thing” for networking, did we leave network security as an afterthought? What are the new considerations for security in a software-defined network?
The “if it works don’t touch it” mentality continues to thwart many aspects of cyber security — including information sharing. It’s also why the trust required to implement a successful Information Sharing scheme is also unlikely to blossom overnight.
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