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 …
If you ever wanted proof of the growing sophistication and skill of cyber-criminals, then you need look no further than Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS attacks let cyber-attackers temporarily suspend or crash the services of a host connected to the Internet. It had been thought that targeted security defences were sufficient to combat …
Throughout much of 2013 Oracle and its programming language, Java, was rarely out of the news. However, since its Critical Patch Update (CPU) release in October 2013, things have remained relatively quiet. Until now, that is. Unfortunately Java-related security issues are once again making the headlines. Kaspersky Labs, have recently discovered more botnet malware designed …