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A new ‘cyber alarm’ system which sounds a warning when a website or IT network comes under attack allows businesses to detect security breaches as soon as they occur. Foregenix is the first cyber security firm in the UK to offer Canary, which sits on a company’s website and ‘chirps’ loudly when there is an attempted ‘break in’. The company says that tough new data protection rules coming into force next year will make it all the...

The second quarter of 2017 saw sophisticated threat actors unleash a wealth of new and enhanced malicious tools, including three zero-day exploits and two unprecedented attacks: WannaCry and ExPetr. Expert analysis of the last two suggests the code may have escaped into the wild before it was fully ready, an unusual situation for well-resourced attackers. These and other trends are covered in Kaspersky Lab’s latest quarterly threat intelligence summary. The months from April to end...

The prpl Foundation, an open-source, community-driven consortium with a focus on enabling the security and interoperability of embedded devices for the smart society of the future, today announced Vodafone Group has joined the Foundation. As a leading multi-national telecommunications provider and Europe’s fastest-growing fixed broadband provider, Vodafone joins prpl with the intent to accelerate the harmonization of software platforms for in-home devices like routers in order to foster innovation in the digital home and smart...

In their quarterly report, PandaLabs, the Security Operations Center at Panda Security, presents a rundown of the three most harrowing months in cybersecurity in recent years. The Quarter in Numbers This quarter has been defined by two major attacks: WannaCry and Petya. The first infected over 230,000 computers in May and caused losses of between one and four billion dollars. The second, a sort of aftershock of the WannaCry earthquake, ended up affecting companies in...

Kaspersky Lab experts have uncovered a new variant of the Svpeng mobile banking Trojan that features keylogging functionality, a technique more commonly associated with targeted threat actors. The modified Trojan steals entered text such as banking credentials by abusing Android’s accessibility services. This approach also allows the Trojan to grant itself other permissions and rights and to counteract attempts to uninstall it. The researchers warn that simply keeping device software up to date does not...

West Ham United has established a partnership with leading cyber security consultancy Foregenix to help safeguard its data and prepare for the introduction of tough new data privacy rules. The project will include a number of cyber security initiatives and build on the work carried out as part of the club’s move to their new London Stadium home. Mike Bohndiek, Head of IT at West Ham, said it would benefit both fans and employees alike....

Zscaler, Inc., the leading cloud security company, today announced the findings of a study from Zscaler™ ThreatLabZ showing that malicious threats using SSL encryption are on the rise in 2017. According to the study, an average of 60 percent of the transactions in the Zscaler cloud, the largest security cloud, have been delivered over SSL/TLS. Researchers also found that the Zscaler cloud saw an average of 8.4 million* SSL/TLS-based security blocks per day this year....

The second quarter of 2017 was proof that long-lasting DDoS attacks are back in business. The longest attack in the quarter was active for 277 hours (more than 11 days) – which is a 131 per cent increase compared to Q1. This is so far a record for the year, says the Q2 2017 botnet DDoS report from Kaspersky Lab experts. Duration was not the only distinctive feature of the DDoS attacks between April and...

Phishing emails are still useful when it comes to penetrating a bank's information infrastructure. Intruders used to fake a sender address, but now they have a new game plan: they attack suppliers and partners and use hacked accounts of real employees to continue an attack against financial organizations. Moreover, intruders send malware files under the guise of bank notifications and attack both personal and work emails of bank employees.   This was revealed in Positive...

The data recovery experts at Kroll Ontrack are seeing an increase in do-it-yourself (DIY) data recovery attempts on media shipped to their labs.   “DIY data recovery techniques and videos found on the Internet are encouraging individuals to attempt to recover their own data when a loss occurs”, says Robin England, Senior Research and Development Engineer at Kroll Ontrack. “We are seeing an influx of drives that have evidence of a DIY data recovery attempt....