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The proportion of UK firms reporting a cyber-attack has jumped, despite most businesses admitting they are under-prepared for breaches, according to research from Hiscox. The insurer found 55% had faced an attack in 2019, up from 40% last year. But almost three quarters of firms were ranked as "novices" in terms of cyber readiness. Hiscox said a lot of businesses "incorrectly felt that they weren't at risk". Source: BBC News

By Vitaly Simonovich and Dima Bekerman DDoS attacks have always been a major threat to network infrastructure and web applications. Attackers are always creating new ways to exploit legitimate services for malicious purposes, forcing us to constantly research DDoS attacks in our CDN to build advanced mitigations. We recently investigated a DDoS attack which was generated mainly from users in Asia. In this case, attackers used a common HTML5 attribute, the tag ping, to trick...

The Ecuadorean government says that it has been targeted with 40 million cyber attacks in the few days since WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was removed from the country’s London embassy. Source: Engineering & Technology

A Point-of-Sale (PoS) data breach exposed more than 2 million debit and credit cards that belongs to the diners at Earl Enterprises. Earl Enterprises is a restaurant company owning national chains such as Earl of Sandwich, Buca di Beppo, and Planet Hollywood. Although the chain restaurant operator have not disclosed themselves how many customers got affected, but Brian Krebs, the cybersecurity expert, said evidences were found by him that 2 million debit and credit cards...

The attack uses a legitimate remote access system as well as several families of malware.A new wave of cyberattacks uses legitimate remote access software to take over user accounts in financial services and retail organizations. Source: Dark Reading

A French team of security experts has emerged the winner of a NATO-backed “live-fire” cybersecurity exercise, Locked Shields, that involved nearly 1,200 cybersecurity experts competing in a red team-blue team engagement to defend a fictional country, “Berylia”. Source: Computer Business Review

All X-rated websites will require age verification from UK users from 15 July, the government has announced. Plans for the so-called ‘porn block’ have been postponed numerous times: it was due to start in April 2018, then at the end of 2018 and most recently on 1 April this year. Source: Huffington Post

By Gerald Beuchelt, CISO at LogMeInDespite the well-publicised growth in cyber-attacks every year, both in number and complexity, businesses are still struggling to implement effective security policies. It’s no secret that weak passwords are a leading security threat and bad password habits are far too common.Yet businesses are struggling to quantify their own level of password risk, even those that use password managers. Why? They lack proof of their policies’ effectiveness. They’re missing visibility into...

By Gerald Beuchelt, CISO at LogMeIn Despite the well-publicised growth in cyber-attacks every year, both in number and complexity, businesses are still struggling to implement effective security policies. It’s no secret that weak passwords are a leading security threat and bad password habits are far too common. Yet businesses are struggling to quantify their own level of password risk, even those that use password managers. Why? They lack proof of their policies’ effectiveness. They’re missing...

A leading UK cyber security firm has joined forces with an Australian pioneer in payment card control technology to fight against the rise of global ATM Cashout fraud. Australian-based Tranwall’s transaction security software will be offered with Foregenix’s Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and Threat Sweep. Both services provide security visibility of business critical assets in a single pane ofglass and prevent advanced targeted attacks with early detection and skilled response. Tranwall software will provide a...