rbadmin Here’s a question for you. Who is behind all the hacking and cybercrime that we read about in our newspapers every week? Who’s controlling the hackers? Well, according to Troels Oerting, Head of Europol’s Cybercrime Centre, it’s an exclusive bunch of malware programming specialists. They are, he believes, around a hundred of these individual, mostly …
When J P Morgan announced in August that 1 million of its users’ bank accounts had been hacked by criminals, there was an outcry. Many security professionals understandably wanted to know why it had taken the bank 2 months to notify users about cyber-breach. They also wondered whether the bank might have been economical with …
Heard of Bash? If not, make note. Bash has been found to contain a critical remotely-exploitable vulnerability which has been discovered in many Linux systems as well as Apple’s Mac operating system. Bash – which stands for Bourne-Again Shell – is a command prompt on many Unix computers. Unix is an operating system on which …
Do you run a small or medium-sized business in the North West? Are you not particularly concerned about the growing threat of cybercrime? Well, if the findings of a study commissioned by Lancaster University, an EPSRC-GCHQ Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber-Security Research, prove to be correct, you should be. The report which looked at …
What’s the biggest risk to the security of the financial services sector? Is it the threat of cyber-attack by unscrupulous hackers? Well – yes and no. Obviously financial institutions are at risk from hackers and are therefore taking the necessary steps to minimise the risks they are exposed to, but according to Brian Lord, a …
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The FBI says it is investigating reports in the US media of recent cyber-attacks against several US banks. The reports suggest between two and five banks, including Wall Street giant JP Morgan Chase, have been targeted by financial Trojans. It would appear that Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citigroup were …
How serious is the threat posed by cyber-attacks? Well, if the reports coming out of the United States are to be believed, then the answer is far more serious than many of us truly appreciated. Most of us will remember the cyber-attack against US retail giant, Target, last year. Many of us will also be …
What does the term ‘cyber resilience’ mean to you? The chances are the answer is not very much. Yes, you could hazard a guess about it roughly relating to the protection of valuable online assets and data against third party theft or hacking, but the probability is that that’s as far as your definition would …
If you’ve been reading the news lately you can’t have failed to notice the latest headline about cyber-security and cyber-crime. Reports have suggested that a Russian cyber-attack, known as CyberVor, had stolen a staggering 1.2 billion user name and password combinations and 500 million email addresses from poorly protected sites using a basic botnet which …
Does your business run a WordPress content management system, or use WordPress as a free open source blogging tool with the popular, unpatched plugin, MailPoet, installed? If you do, then security experts are advising that you should upgrade your site immediately. Why the hurry you may wonder? What’s so serious to warrant immediate action? Well, …
In spite of the many horror stories we constantly read about regarding cyber-attacks and cyber-crime, it would appear that many smaller businesses remain unaffected by the concerns that are worrying the rest of us. This apparent lack of concern is understandable, as they mistakenly believe that most cyber-attacks are directed at larger institutions and organisations …
How well-prepared are Britain’s small business for cyber-threat? Are they taking sufficient precautions to protect themselves from the growing threat of cyber-attack? Well, no –they aren’t. At least that’s what web security firm, Kaspersky Lab, believes. In fact the security firm believes these businesses aren’t just ill-equipped to tackle cyber-threat; it argues that the majority …
In the world of cybercrime, the stories that tend to make the headlines are generally bad news stories. However, every now and then a good new story comes along; one that demonstrates how authorities are effectively cooperating and combining resources and hitting back at the criminals who target cyberspace. News broke last week that the …
What’s the biggest concern for businesses at the moment? Is it the economy or the threat posed by increasingly powerful and influential overseas competitors? Well, no doubt these issues are causing one or two sleepless nights for corporations, but the biggest concern of all is the threat of cyber-attack according to BT. Now the cyber-threat …