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Cyber criminals targeting public institutions with modified form of Qbot malware. A team of leading cyber experts has identified a new strain of Qbot, malicious software that has infected over 54,000 PCs in thousands of organisations across the world. An emergency response to a Qbot attack on a public sector organisation has given BAE Systems unparalleled insight into how the updated malware infects hosts, updates itself and hides from all but a very few antivirus...

Cyber security is often stated as a problem organisations need to deal with, but it’s an issue which is never going to be completely fixed. Instead of viewing cyber security as a problem, organisations need to start viewing their cyber security as a game and cyber adversaries as challengers in that game. The difference being that problems, like 1+1, have a singular answer. Too much network traffic load for your security perimeter? That’s a problem...

Csaba Krasznay, Product Manager of Shell Control Box, Balabit (www.balabit.com) Hackers may have many challenges, but it seems gaining access to a corporate network using social engineering techniques is not one of them. Social engineering – a technique whereby an individual is tricked into revealing personal or log-in information – is nothing new, but its evolution in recent years is shocking. Recently, the biggest and costliest data breaches (such as OPM or Ashley Madison) were...

There are a great deal of "cyber" skilled professionals within the industry, as opposed to what is claimed by the world governments. The term “cyber” itself has lead to the discrimination of valuable professionals who do not feature cyber certifications in their CVs, as recruiters operate on the basis of scanning systems that filter out CVs that do not mention the term du jour creating, therefore creating a blind spot. The creation of sexy new...

Compromised online identities have reached a level that has exposed the weaknesses in usernames and passwords as well as traditional software security solutions. Government services around the world have a growing demand for strong two-factor authentication, but traditional hardware technologies have been too costly and complicated to scale for most countries and internet users. The UK Government has enlisted the services of Yubico and Digidentity, in a partnership that enables FIDO Universal 2nd Factor (U2F)...

Popular messaging app WhatsApp has added end-to-end ecryption in its latest update to the app. This means that governments, hackers, even WhatsApp (and Facebook who owns it) can't peek at your messages. Following the huge row between the FBI and Apple over encrption, this could be seen as the tech industry biting back. Fred Touchette, Manager of Security Research at AppRiver stated that "WhatsApp’s decision to offer full end to end encryption is a great thing....

Aftab Afzal Will Oversee New Business Initiatives in Key Markets  NSFOCUS IB today announced that Aftab Afzal has joined the company as the new Senior VP and General Manager for the EMEA region. NSFOCUS was founded in 2000 to provide enterprise-level network security solutions and services primarily in the Asia/Pacific market. The new NSFOCUS International Business subsidiary brings advanced security solutions to the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Mr. Afzal brings to...

Reports started surfacing this week that one of the world's largest data leaks, being referred to as the Panama Papers, is shedding light on offshore financing of some of the richest and most powerful people around the globe. The leak, which included over 11.5 million files including emails, invoices and bank records, came from Mossack Fonseca, a law firm in Panama that is reportedly one of the world's biggest creators of shell companies. As with Snowden, Wikileaks,...

After a hugely successful KickStarter Campaign which raised over £42,000, Bolton-based start-up DigitalDairy has released the first batch of its hotly anticipated Smart Cheese™, a special kind of IoT-enabled cheddar that's able to run popular apps such as WhatsApp, Candy Crush and Tinder, among many others. Running a specialised version of Android, users will also be able to use DigitalDairy's Smart Cheese™ to make calls, send and receive text messages and take photos with the built...

The BYOD & Mobile Security Report has just been released, shedding light on where the industry is with its adoption of BYOD and its capabilities in securing it. The report is presented by Tenable Network Security, SnoopWall, Skycure, Check Point, Blancco Technology Group, Bitglass and the Information Security Communtiy of LinkedIn. Surveying over 800 IT security professionals, the survey found that 72% of Infosec pros were concerned by the risks of data leakage/loss when implementing BYOD....