Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The hackers that targeted Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft developers two years ago have escalated their economic espionage efforts as they seek confidential business information and intellectual property they can profit from. The group, which security researchers from Kaspersky Lab and…
Hillary Clinton Is Angry With China Over Cyber Attacks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Last Saturday, U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton openly accused China of attacking U.S. networks and stealing sensitive information to gain military and economic advantages over the United States,Reuters reports. Speaking at a campaign event in New Hampshire, Clinton used unusually…
Countering Cyber Attacks With Big Data And Analytics
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Executive Summary Organizations are challenged today as never before to protect their information assets, as well as the underlying networks and services that gather, store, process, and transmit this information. The same better, faster, cheaper information and communication technologies (ICT) that…
Ministry of Defence fends off ‘thousands’ of daily cyber attacks
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Risk Evaluation Report Finds Mobile Banking Leaves Some Banks More Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans While mobile banking is no doubt convenient for customers – and banks – there’s a significant downside to the fact that more and more financial institutions are using the technology: an increased risk that your personal information will fall in the…
Incident response spend up as firms recognise cyber attacks are inevitable
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans European firms are shifting their cyber security investment from traditional prevention and protection to detection and response capabilities, a study has revealed. The shift in spending is due to a realisation that cyber attacks are inevitable, according to the study by…
Merseyside Hacker Faces Jail Term Over Public Sector DDoS Attacks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A man from Merseyside is awaiting sentencing after admitting to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) campaign which targeted public sector and business websites, potentially affecting vulnerable people, Computer Weekly has reported. Bootle man Ian Sullivan, aged 51, carried out the…
Cybersecurity: Defending ‘unpreventable’ cyber attacks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans That’s the view of James Lewis, a cybersecurity expert at the Washington DC-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Mr Lewis says that no company can prevent an attack launched by hackers who have the resources of a nation-state behind…
Islamic State Terror Group Makes Alliance With Anti-Israel Hackers to Increase Cyber Attacks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A number of Twitter accounts promoting the Islamic State terrorist group are collaborating with anti-Israel hackers in an effort to increase cyber attacks on behalf of the terror organization, the Anti-Defamation League reported on Thursday. The Alazm Center Twitter account posted a…
Sony Postpones Earnings Announcement, Blaming Hacking Attacks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans HONG KONG — Sony said Friday that it would delay the report of its earnings for the quarter ended Dec. 31 as a result of the hacking attacks on its American film studio, Sony Pictures Entertainment. As those attacks led to…