Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Firewalls are the front-line soldiers, who sit strategically at the edge of your network and defend it from various security threats. Firewalls require constant maintenance and management to ensure that they are accurately configured for optimal security, continuous compliance, and high…
Optimizing Network Security with SolarWinds Firewall Security Manager (FSM)
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Firewalls are the front-line soldiers, who sit strategically at the edge of your network and defend it from various security threats. Firewalls require constant maintenance and management to ensure that they are accurately configured for optimal security, continuous compliance, and high…
Department of Education and Training beefs up online security after information hack
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Education Minister Kate Jones yesterday confirmed security had been upgraded in the wake of the scandal, which resulted in the details of Queensland students being illegally obtained as well as online forms submitted to the TAFE website. “DET has added additional…
Obama Lets NSA Use Zero-Day Exploits by labeling it as ‘National Security Need’
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans On Saturday, the Senior Administration Officials cast light on the subject of Internet Security and said President Obama has clearly decided that whenever the U.S. Intelligence agency like NSA discovers major vulnerabilities, in most of the situations the agency should reveal…
Cyber Security Tips for Small Business
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans It’s happened again! A big box retailer, healthcare organization or the government have been hacked. Big business cyber attacks have become a common thread in our news feeds. The stories are then followed by news of the investigation, the lawsuits and…
Security Researchers Breach Phishing Server Belonging to Iranian Hackers Rocket Kitten
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Rocket Kitten is a hacking group that first appeared in April 2014 and was unmasked for the first time by FireEye researchers in May 2014. The most damning report on their activity was published this year by a joint effort betweenTREND…
‘Free market failing cyber security industry,’ warns GCHQ chief
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Britain’s electronic spy chief has called on the government to intervene in the cyber security industry after admitting the free market is failing to meet the needs of businesses at risk of attack. GCHQ Director Robert Hannigan told an audience on…
NSA discloses most security flaws, but that’s not the whole story
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The National Security Agency is opening up a bit about how it discloses security exploits… though not by much. Officials have posted an infographic boasting that the NSA shares details about 91 percent of the security flaws it finds, with the…
Europol, the FBI and Israel’s internal security service Shin Bet declined immediate comment.
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans European authorities have taken action to shut down a cyber espionage operation linked to Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard in the first operation of its kind since Tehran signed a nuclear treaty, according to security researchers who located computers used to launch…
Samsung Galaxy S5’s fingerprint scanner fails to live up to security standards
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The much-hyped fingerprint scanner on Samsung’s latest flagship handset the Galaxy S5 has already been hacked just days after the device was launched, although a teardown reveals a bill of materials in excess of $250 (£150) – higher than the iPhone…