Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
A panel of cybersecurity experts at Wednesday’s Web Summit warned that recent hacker attacks such as those of Ashley Madison and TalkTalk are “the tip of a teeny, tiny iceberg” and that the cyber equivalent of 9/11 could happen and is “a very real danger”. Dermot Williams, managing director of security firm Threatscape, reminded the audience the recent TalkTalk hack was followed by a statement revealing that it was a very sophisticated attack, something that “almost made us feel sorry for them” until it emerged that a solitary 16-year-old was arrested. TalkTalk got hacked because “it wasn’t paying enough attention to its cybersecurity,” claimed Evgeny Chereshnev, vice-president of global consumer marketing forKaspersky Lab. However, Chereshnev was not implying that this was a trivial attack. He said that anyone with a relatively high IQ can find guidebooks out there on the web that act as a colour-by-numbers guide to hacking into various security systems. “It’s getting to be a bigger and bigger threat landscape out there,” said Rami Essaid, co-founder and chief executive of bot-blocking service Distil Networks. “It’s one company versus an infinite amount of expert knowledge and hackers. Security must be part of a company’s core infrastructure because we […]
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