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 …
Are you a LinkedIn user? If you are then this story may be of interest to you. Security researchers at Zimperium Mobile Threat Defence, claim to have discovered a Zero-day vulnerability in the online business networking platform, LinkedIn, that potentially exposes its users to data loss and account hijacking by way of a man-in-the-middle (MitM) …
Web Security Lunch and Learn Event with KRYPSYS and Alien Vault Attend this free-of-charge lunch and learn event with Krypsys and AlienVault at prestigious locations in London and Manchester. Get the attackers perspective on web site and web application security from a senior penetration tester and security consultant with more than 15 years experience. Request a place on this event …
Where does the biggest threat to corporate cyber-security lie? Well, in the opinion of Patrick Thomas, security consultant at Neohapsis, it’s in the cloud and in the recent upsurge in targeted Ransomware attacks, the latest of which has effectively wiped out code hosting and software collaboration platform, Code Spaces. The company which is based in …
Cyber-attacks and hacking are rarely out of the news these days. In the last week alone there have been lurid headlines about damaging DDoS cyber-attacks on popular online notes and web clippings service ,Evernote, social media dashboard application, TweetDeck, and news site, Feedly, affecting millions of users. Cyber-attacks, however, are not the exclusive preserve of …
Lunch with a Pen Tester – 2 places left There are just 2 places still available at the free lunch and learn event with Krypsys and Barracuda Networks at the prestigious Eight Club in Bank, London. Attend this event and get the attackers perspective on web site and web application security, from a senior penetration …
It has not been a good week for the open source encryption protocol OpenSSL. With an estimated 12,000 popular domains still vulnerable, a new way of exploiting the Heartbleed bug has been discovered which can steal information from wireless networks and the devices which connect to them. To compound matters researchers at Japanese security firm, Lepidum, have …
Whilst WordPress might be one of the most popular global content management systems, it is also one of the most vulnerable and targeted CMS platforms. The reason for this is simple: its popularity and reach make it extremely attractive to cyber-breach by attackers determined to exploit and compromise flaws in both outdated software and vulnerable …
Cyber-attacks are commonplace these days; so commonplace in fact that they tend to be overlooked or ignored by many of us. We assume that as hacking is generally carried out by determined and seasoned criminals targeting specific institutions, it’s not a problem that will affect us. Sadly that assumption is incorrect. Anybody can be a …
Is your business comfortable with the concept of the cloud? Do you have few, if any, concerns about security compliance and feel you can trust your cloud service provider implicitly? If you do you may want to heed the latest advice issued by the information arm of the UK intelligence agency, GCHQ, which is encouraging …