Cyber Attacks on Critical Infrastructure Could Cause Disaster
Critical infrastructure in the US – including the energy sector with its nuclear power facilities – is increasingly coming under cyber attack from hostile nations and a range of other hackers, with potentially disastrous consequences. The warning was issued earlier this month by Charles Edwards, deputy inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), who emphasized the need for … Read more
Privacy Advocates Vs. Legislators: House To Revisit CISPA This Week
Call it ‘cybersecurity’ week in our nation’s capital, as Internet privacy advocates clash with legislators on the best way enact quality cybersecurity legislation. The House Intelligence Committee plans to revisit the polarizing Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) this week, scheduling a “mark up” session today to revamp some of the bill’s amendments. This could eventually lead to a … Read more
Breach Bracket: The “March Madness” Tournament Every School Is Trying To Avoid
Call it “March Madness” of a more sinister sort. The security researchers over at AppSecInc’s TeamSHATTER — a company that provides database security, risk and compliance solutions — have released their annual data breach madness “bracket,” highlighting which educational institutions have endured data breaches over the past 12 months. The team found that although the number of reported breaches (51) … Read more
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Tagged cost of data breach, data breaches, education, universities
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Cyber-Threat Report: Americans Attacking Americans? Maybe
The big eye-popper from the latest Solutionary Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR), which provides insight and analysis including the cost of cyber threats that enterprises, governments and mid-market organizations faced throughout 2012 and how to defend against them, are the numbers. In data gleaned from real-world interactions with customers in 14 industries across the globe, managed security service provider (MSSP) … Read more
Study: Majority of Small Businesses Suffer Data Breaches; Disclosure Is Another Matter
Small businesses have big data breach problems, and they’re having a hard time admitting it. A new Ponemon survey, commissioned by the The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company — a part of reinsurance behemoth Munich Re — found that while more than half the U.S. small businesses surveyed experienced at least one data breach, only a third notified … Read more
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Tagged data breaches, Small Businesses, study
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UK Survey: Consumers Have Trust Issues with Banks
Ronald Reagan liked to say “trust, but verify.” The people of the UK have spoken, and they feel the same. They’re having a difficult time trusting that the financial services industry — and other organizations that use call centers — are adequately protecting their personal information. Banks top the list of organizations consumers trust least with their personal data, according … Read more
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Tagged banks, data protection, Financial, UK
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Survey of RSA Attendees Shows General Security Readiness Lacking
Trapping thousands of security professionals in a room is a great way to gauge which way the industry winds are blowing. At RSA, F5 Networks chose to harness this massive amount of infosec brain power to conduct a security trends survey. They posed two qualifying questions to booth visitors to ascertain whether these practitioners had any management responsibilities or sway … Read more
Posted in Data Protection, Network Security, Security Management, Security Threats, Uncategorized
Tagged report, RSA Conference, Trends
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Kaspersky: New Botnet Discovered; Potential Threat to Chilean Banks
If you have money in any Latin American banks, it might be a good idea to begin storing some of that cash under the mattress. According to a recent blog post from a Kaspersky Labs expert in Argentina, a new weapon in the emerging Latin American cybercrime space is now targeting two large Chilean banks. AlbaBotnet is designed to unleash … Read more
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Tagged banks, botnets, phishing, social engineering
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Hacking Twitter Isn’t Even a Challenge. Burger King and Jeep Learned This Lesson the Hard Way.
First Burger King and now Jeep. Both prominent companies have suffered embarrassment since having their Twitter accounts hijacked this week, reportedly by Anonymous. It’s unfortunate, but these two companies join a long list of other businesses, news media outlets, politicians (including Barack Obama), celebrities and even average citizens who have found their Twitter accounts taken over by hackers. The problem … Read more
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Tagged hack Twitter account, Hacking Twitter, social media attacks, Twitter attacks
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The Facebook Hack Attack: Finding “No Evidence” Doesn’t Mean Data Wasn’t Compromised
On February 15, Facebook Security posted a public notice that the company “discovered that our systems had been targeted in a sophisticated attack.” Facebook Security was unusually frank about the details of the attack, including the revelation of how the compromise happened. (Facebook employees’ computers were infected with drive-by malware when the workers visited a mobile developer’s website that had … Read more
