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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,...

In today's news: A story broke over the weekend about a malware called Wifatch - a router virus that is seeking out vulnerable devices and helping secure them! Being described as ethical malware or vigilante malware, what wifatch is doing is infecting thousands of routers and protecting them from more powerful, well known kinds of malware. It even tells hardware owners to change their telnet passwords or update their firmware. Remember, it is an infection...

Experian - one of the largest data brokers and credit agencies in the world, who rather ironically offers advice to organisations should they suffer a breach - has confirmed it has itself been hacked, again! The company confirmed yesterday that 15 million people, including the customers of T-Mobile, who had applied for Experian credit checks, may have had their private information exposed. Speaking about the news, T-Mobile's CEO said he was 'incredibly angry'. I'd imagine...

In today's news: Cyber criminals have once again targeted nations states, this time with the Thai government as the victim. News outlets are reporting this morning that several Thai government websites we hit by a suspected DDoS attack around 3pm GMT, or 10pm local time, yesterday. Websites were impossible to access for several hours, with the government restoring access by Thursday morning. Unlike ordinary DDoS attacks that are usually orchestrated by a particular program or...

Kelly Brook has been named as the 'most dangerous celebrity on the internet' after websites relating to her were found to hide the most malware of any celebrity websites. Also included in the top 10 were Idris Elba, Victoria Beckham and Katie Price. Also in today's news, over 68,000 medical devices may have been hacked, according to two researchers. They found that false medical devices they created attracted thousands of hackers, showing that malicious online...

Anti-virus is dead and it’s all about the next-generation products that can detect, track and gather intelligence on sophisticated, targeted attacks. Or so Wall Street seems to think. If you also buy the hype then you might at least be interested to learn exactly how effective these new products and services are. Which of the extraordinary marketing claims contain a grain of truth and which are pure snake oil? It’s hard to know without independent...

CloudFlare has said it has observed mobile advertisements that are pumping out around 275,000 HTTP requests per second. No victims have been named, but cloudflare has said the Layer 7 HTTP floods hitting the target is a once-theoretical attack turning up in the real world. London CloudFlare engineer Marek Majkowski says the difficulty in turning HTTP floods into a real attack was overcome using malicious JavaScript in an advertisement. "Browser-based L7 floods have been rumored...

Hackers are using a new strain of malware, dubbed GreenDispenser, to infect ATMs and then drain the machine of all its cash, researchers at ProofPoint have revealed. Once Installed, the malware displays an 'out of service' message on the ATM. However these clever attackers can still enter a specific PIN and take the cash and the erase all trace of the malware by using a "deep delete" process, leaving little trace of how the machine...

For a number of years, October has been dubbed Cyber Security Awareness Month. The problem is that not many people know that and fewer do anything about it. Well, it's time to change that. The last week of October (26th-20th) we're launching a campaign called Security Serious - five days dedicated to businesses and consumers who take security seriously and want to share their cyber security experiences with others. Our mantra will be 'we're taking...

Malvertising is making the headlines once more, this time with popular websites Forbes.com and Realtor.com serving up malicious malware. FireEye researchers have reported that eight Forbes URLs attached to news stories between 2012 and 2015 were included in the attack, whilst Malware bytes is reporting that people browsing Realtor.com website over the last few days may have been exposed to a malvertising campaign. Both attacks are similar to previously reported attacks that hit sites including...