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ESET® warns users against an increased number of infected emails containing a malicious attachment, which downloads and installs ransomware onto an infected device. When opened, it encrypts victims‘ files on thier PCs and requires a ransom for decryption. ESET telemetry detects this malicious downloader as JS/TrojanDownloader.Nemucod and records its unusually high incidence in Europe, North America, Australia and Japan. Nemucod is wide-spread via emails, which contain attached zipped files. Emails are written in a very trustworthy way,...

Dell Data Security Survey Finds that a Lack of Security Knowledge Limits Business Initiatives The results are in from a survey of 1302 IT decision makers conducted by Dell which sought to shed light on the C-suite's attitudes towards security, which has shown they're most constrained by costs and time associated with security. 70% of respondents felt that security was a burden upon their time. At the same time, 73% of those surveyed are still...

 European Footwear Giant Kurt Geiger Gains Real-Time Insights Into Website and Cloud Infrastructure Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), provider of the leading software platform for real-time Operational Intelligence, today announced that fashion footwear retailer Kurt Geiger relies on Splunk® Enterprise to support its growing e-commerce operations and improve the customer experience across its global websites. Splunk Enterprise helps Kurt Geiger to improve website uptime and deliver valuable insights across the business — including into its Amazon Web...

Bromium, the micro-virtualisation specialists from California, have just released the results of a survey conducted at RSA 2016 with some surprising results. Users take note! Asking 100 security professionals whether users were causing them the most headaches in their work, 70% of respondents replied "yes" - a pretty conclusive answer. What's more Bromium have completed similar surveys in previous year which have delivered the same answer, showing that something really must be done in this...

Identity management for wearables should be a top priority for IT managers Centrify, the leader in securing enterprise identities against cyberthreats, has announced the results from a survey conducted at the RSA Conference regarding the prevalence of wearables in the enterprise and the growing concern they pose for IT security. RSA is taking place this week at the Moscone Centre in San Francisco, US. First, 69 per cent of wearable device owners say they forego login credentials,...

With thousands of breaches happening every year, an often touted way of reducing the risk of corporate accounts and the like being compromised is through the implementation of multi-factor authentication (MFA). However it's often not implemented, with a sort of 'granny's advice' situation becoming apparent where good advice is readily available, yet we continue to ignore it. So what is MFA? Why would we want to deploy it? Is it a hard thing to get...

At the end of 2014, ASERT presented research where we mapped some DDoS booter advertisements on Russian language forums to their behind-the-scenes DDoS botnet infrastructures. For this post, we will follow up on that research a bit by looking at another one of these mappings and trying to estimate the revenue generated by the DDoS service. It Starts With an Advertisement In this marketplace, it almost always starts with an advertisement for a DDoS booter...

Capgemini and RSA have teamed up on research into the abilities of organisations in secureing online identities and the results are, well....not good. Actually, pretty bad. After surveying over 800 C-level staff in the US, UK, Germany, France, Benelux and the Nordics, it turns out only one in five (21%) organisations are equipped to securely manage user identities. There were some differences across nations, with only 15% of organisations in the UK being equipped to support secure and...

The results are in from a survey carried out by GBG, a global identity data intelligence specialist, with some surprising results. Almost 1 in 4 uk consumers, when asked to value their personal identity, put it at £500 or less - that's £39 less than the cost of a new iPhone 6s. There were differences across age groups, with over a third of millenials valuing their identities at less that £1000, whereas only 17% of the 65+...

Troy Hunt has uncovered a flaw within the Nissan Leaf's companion app that allows hackers to see data about recent journeys and meddle with other aspects of the vehicle such as climate control and battery life. All they need is he vehicle identity number (VIN). Mr. Hunt gave Nissan one month to fix the flaw prior to his unmasking of them in public. His stance on the issue is that Nissan should disable the app, which...