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Citirx's GoToMyPC remote desktop access has experienced a hacking attack on their systems, with all users required to reset their passwords before logging in to the service. GoToMyPC published a post on their system status page, with the company stating that they had been hit by a very sophisticated password attack. The Guru spoke to several IT security experts to get their take on the breach. Stephen Gates, Chief Research Intelligence Analyst at NSFOCUS IB. "I find...

According to a recent Kaspersky blog, attacks on organisations are being launched by an APT group named ScarCruft, using a zero-day Flash exploit. ScarCruft is a relatively new APT group and victims have been observed in Russia, Nepal, South Korea, China, India, Kuwait and Romania. The group has several ongoing operations, utilising multiple exploits — two for Adobe Flash and one for Microsoft Internet Explorer. Dubbed Operation Daybreak, the attack appears to have been launched...

Security breaches have become ever present within our society today, with news of breaches, such as those to baby care retailer Kiddicare and social media giant LinkedIn, gracing the front pages most mornings. With cybercriminals having an increasing presence within our rapidly evolving online society, scenarios such as the above are likely to become a more everyday occurrence unless the right measures are put in place. The cost of the average data breach rose dramatically in...

The ability to stop ransomware and other damaging forms of cyberattack before they cause harm has placed Varonis Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRNS), a leading provider of software solutions that protect data from insider threats and cyberattacks, and its rapidly growing DatAlert solution at the centre of the global battle being fought by organisations to protect their valuable data. Varonis said attendance nearly doubled at its annual series of Varonis Customer Connect events, held in 20 cities across the U.S. and...

IBM Security today announced the results of a global study analysing the financial impact of data breaches to a company’s bottom line. Sponsored by IBM and conducted by the Ponemon Institute, the study found that the average cost of a data breach for companies surveyed has grown to $4 million, representing a 29 percent increase since 2013. Cybersecurity incidents continue to grow in both volume and sophistication, with 64 percent more security incidents reported in...

Kaspersky Lab researchers have investigated a global forum where cybercriminals can buy and sell access to compromised servers for as little as $6 each. The xDedic marketplace, which appears to be run by a Russian-speaking group, currently lists 70,624 hacked Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) servers for sale. Many of the servers host or provide access to popular consumer websites and services, and some even have software installed for direct mail, financial accounting and Point-of-Sale (PoS)...

In May 2016, security researchers discovered that millions of user accounts from popular sites like LinkedIn, MySpace and Tumblr were for sale in underground marketplaces. The victims’ personal data came from multiple widespread data breaches, many of which took place between 2011 and 2013. Overall, the breaches revealed over 642 million passwords, and the FBI has issued a warning that cyber criminals have already started using information stemming from the breaches in blackmail and ransomware...

iMesh, a now defunct service that was once one of the biggest P2P sites in the US, reportedly suffered a data breach in 2013 which has now led to a huge database of 51 million users' credentials going for sale on the dark web. This is the latest in a string of huge databases coming up online, after the recent breach at MySpace and LinkedIn led to tens of millions of users' info being loaded...

Despite the increasing number of data breaches and more than 3.9 billion data records worldwide being lost or stolen since 2013, organisations continue to believe perimeter security technologies are effective against data breaches. This is one of the many findings of the third-annual Data Security Confidence Index released today by Gemalto, (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security. Of the 1,100 IT decision makers surveyed worldwide, 61% said their perimeter security systems (firewall,...

In an attempt to crack down on the spreading of malicious computer viruses, experts from Cardiff University will be trawling through thousands of suspicious links that are spread across social media during this year’s European Football Championships. The researchers, from the School of Computer Sciences & Informatics, will be deploying a trained computer, known as an ‘intelligent system’, to trawl through thousands of inconspicuous URLs that are tacked on to a vast array of tweets...