Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Directors of U.S. businesses are pretty confident they can understand corporate security risks, but corporate security pros are not so sure their boards really get it, according to a survey of both board members and C-level security executives. While 70% of…
SMB Cyber Defense: The Essential Building Blocks to Protect Infrastructure
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Cyber criminals are becoming far more sophisticated as technology evolves and new and better tools become available. Another disturbing trend is that attacks are increasingly more targeted and aimed specifically at smaller organizations. In fact, the threat landscape changes and evolves…
MacKeeper helps cyber crims clean up
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A newly-discovered security flaw in MacKeeper, the OS clean-up utility, is providing cybercriminals a backdoor to diffuse a new strain of Mac malware known as OSX/Agent-ANTU. BAE’s cyber security unit said that MacKeeper, which has been downloaded over 20 million times,…
OPM wants $37M more for IT — U.S. cyber warriors fare OK in war game
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans OPM WANTS $37M MORE FOR IT — The Office of Personnel Management told congressional appropriators it could use another $37 million to migrate its IT systems in the fiscal year starting in October, Dave scoops. The request came in an email…
Anonymous cyber hackers hit UAE banking websites
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Several UAE banks were hit by a co-ordinated cyber attack, known in the trade as a distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, on Tuesday, crippling e-banking operations and websites, and leaving the unnamed institutions fearing further assaults, Arabian Business’ sister website ITP.net has reported. German…
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…
Israeli cyber start-up Checkmarx nets $84m investment
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans raeli cyber-security start-up Checkmarx announced Thursday that it had received an $84 million investment from New York-based venture capital and private equity firm Insight Venture Partners. The new round of capital will be primarily used to further accelerate growth through product…
Ministry of Defence fends off ‘thousands’ of daily cyber attacks
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Beware cyber crooks as you post information online
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Did you know that by accepting Facebook requests from people you do not know and have no mutual friends with puts you and your loved ones at the risk of cyber crime? By including your personal information such as where you…
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…