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With recent news reporting that over 800 cryptocurrencies are now considered dead, is the end of Bitcoin upon us? Are cryptocurrencies a fad that will be obsolete within 5 years? Cryptocurrency Experts give their insight into whether the death of crypto is upon us. Max Kortrakul Founder and CEO of social crypto trading platform Carboneum, says: “Whilst there is uncertainty over the future of Bitcoin, the fact remains that there is a large amount of...

Kaspersky Lab products have detected new malicious samples related to the infamous Trojan family Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Rakhni. The main feature of the malware is that it can choose how to infect its victims - either with a cryptor or with a miner. According to our researchers, the malware primarily targets companies rather than ordinary users, and is mainly spread throughout Russia (95.57%). It also has a presence in Kazakhstan (1.36%), Ukraine (0.57%), Germany (0.49%), and India (0.41%)....

DigiCert Inc., the leading global provider of SSL/TLS certificates and other PKI solutions for securing web traffic and the Internet of Things (IoT), is providing industry guidance that millions of websites are not encrypted by default and may receive security warnings for visitors using Google Chrome browsers once Chrome 68 stable updates go live on July 23.   With the release of the Google Chrome 68 browser, any web page not running HTTPS with a...

New research released today shows that public sector organisations face increased financial pressure as a result of the recently implemented General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), to the tune of £30million per year. The NHS is expected to be hit hardest by the influx in data requests, given that before the introduction it cost the NHS £20.6million per year to retrieve customer data. The impact of GDPR doesn’t stop there. Further new guidelines ruling that in...

Independent technology consultancy 6point6 Cloud Gateway warned today of faith in “the cloud” peaking in 2019 before collapsing in 2020, then recovering from 2022 with better business analysis, more realistic expectations and a greater appreciation of hybrid cloud environments. Justin Day, managing director of Cloud Gateway, said: “Essentially, what we’re witnessing – and I see evidence of it every day – is something like Gartner’s Hype Cycle in action, for the cloud.  We’re in the...

Last fall, energy companies in several countries, including Germany and the United States, found out via a cybersecurity report from Symantec that hackers had figured out a way to breach their infrastructures. These hackers could potentially switch off the power grids at those establishments and wreak havoc on their computer systems. Now, more recent news includes allegations that Russia was the country behind the scheme.  Hans-Georg Maassen is the president of the Federal Office for...

Anyone who has ever held an ATM card, created an email address, opened an online bank account, or joined a social media website know how important passwords are. We know that passwords open the gates to our digital life, and we should never share them to just about anyone, or any person at all if we can help it. But even if we don’t tell anyone our passwords, we are still vulnerable to cyber attacks....

Research released today from F5 Labs has found Telnet brute force attacks against IoT devices, led by Chinese hackers have risen a staggering 249% since 2016. Findings from the latest Threat Intelligence report shed light on the challenges vulnerable IoT devices place on businesses, as the proliferation of brute force hacks both intensify and become harder to monitor.   F5 Labs’ research reveals 44% of attack traffic originates from China and IP addresses in Chinese...

Political and social instability in the world is spilling over into businesses, which more than ever must contend not only with hackers targeting valuable corporate data, but also how geopolitical conflicts will affect the reliability of digital networks supporting commerce, how policy is formulated and enforced, and how investments are executed. The relatively quiet first six months of 2018 could turn on a dime as midterm elections loom, tense relations in the Middle East persist,...

As attacks are getting more sophisticated, so must our defences   The threat to corporate networks from DDoS attacks has never been greater. Despite some wins of recent, such as the takedown in April of Webstresser – an online DDoS-as-a-service website, organisations cannot take their guard down.   Such a service meant that criminals could flood servers with traffic for as little as $18 per month. With no technical expertise, criminals were able to launch...