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The UK and US’ biggest banks will simulate a cyber-attack as officials investigate the sector’s strength in resisting threats of computer hackers targeting the financial industry. Operation Resilient Shield, as the operation has been named, is intended to be the most sophisticated test of network infrastructure and communications yet. Previous tests have tested banking personnel and institutions in the UK alone – the new dimension is adding US institutions to the trial, to assess how...

Antivirus Performance Study Shows Diversification is Key OPSWAT has two multi-scanning products, Metascan® and Metascan Online, that both demonstrate the importance of using more than one antivirus engine to detect threats - the more you have, the greater the range of protection. A single anti-malware engine cannot guarantee 100% detection of threats. However, what one engine doesn’t detect, may be detected by another engine. In this way, one engine's weaknesses can be another engine's strength....

In today's news: Government policy on surveillance has taken a new turn as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that there are some situations where they do not need a warrant to use cell site simulators - small devices that can identify mobile phone signals and place their general location. These cite simulators, known as stingrays, effectively pretend to be a phone tower, which get phones to communicate with it. Once this has...

In today's news: Bank robbers have been using the sophisticated Dridex malware to steal from banks, having bagged themselves £20m in the UK alone. It is believed the robbers are operating internationally. The malware is believed to have been developed in Eastern Europe, which is why some sources are saying that is most likely where the robbers are. More IT Security News at www.itsecurityguru.org @IT_SecGuru

New Nessus Agents for Amazon, Debian and Ubuntu Linux, and new Nessus scanner for AWS help customers simplify cloud vulnerability management Tenable Network Security®, Inc., the leader in continuous network monitoring™, today announced new capabilities for Nessus® v6 that allow customers to simplify and extend vulnerability management for cloud environments by reducing the cloud infrastructure attack surface. When moving to cloud computing, many organizations discover that the benefits of the cloud are accompanied by unexpected...

In today's news: Sanmay Ved bought Google.com for $12 - that's £8 - at the end of September. He immediately started getting emails which were clearly intended for the web admin staff at Google. Buying the domain on Google's own domain selling service, Mr Ved managed to buy and receive confirmation of his ownership of the domain, which lasted all but a minute. Google rewarded a cash bounty which it then doubled after Mr Ved...

In today's news: Yet another company has been hit by a data breach, this time with the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, notifying their customers last week of a breach that may affect thousands. Dow Jones chief executive William Lewis issued a letter to customers on Friday, stating that the data from 3,500 individuals could have been accessed, although they are yet to discover any direct evidence that information was stolen....

Cyber-criminals and hackers are increasingly attacking cloud infrastructure, which they see as a "fruit bearing jackpot" as more organisations are making use of the public cloud to store their data than ever before, a security company claims. While organisations are embracing the cloud, a report by security-as-a-service provider Alert Logic suggests that IT decision makers shouldn't assume that data they store off-premises is harder to acquire. The company warns there has been a 45% increase...

In today's news: A digest of some of the big current issues in IT security. South Korea blames the North for hacking the subway system of Seoul and planting malicious code on employees' computers. Car hacking findings take deeper turn as companies announce research from the last year. Nuclear powers at major risk of hacking, Chatham House report claims. More on these stories and others at www.itsecurityguru.org @IT_SecGuru

Tenable simplifies regulatory compliance and improves performance of vulnerability assessments for European customers with Nessus Cloud now hosted on Amazon Web Services Frankfurt region Tenable Network Security®, Inc., a leader in continuous network monitoring, today announced the expansion of Nessus® Cloud services into Europe with its software as a service (SaaS) applications hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the AWS EU (Frankfurt) region.   For many businesses and government agencies in the European Union,...