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The White Hat Ball Committee are delighted to invite you to the eleventh annual White Hat Ball taking place on Friday 29 January 2016 at the Lancaster London Hotel. This well established highlight of the Information Risk and Security Industry calendar promises to be a special night for all. The 2015 Ball was a great success, raising over £144,000 for ChildLine. This year we aim to raise even more so ChildLine can continue to be...

Intel® Security today released its McAfee Labs Threats Predictions Report, which predicts key developments on the cyber threat landscape in 2016, and provides unique insights into the expected nature of that landscape through 2020, as well as the IT security industry’s likely response. Reflecting the informed opinions of 33 of Intel Security’s thought leaders, the report examines current trends in cybercrime and makes predictions about what the future may hold for organisations working to keep...

The Nigerian Government website has been compromised and then used to host a phishing scam, it has emerged today. The Financial reporting Council section of the site contains an embedded phishing scam. The organisation is in charge of accounting standards and overseeing corporate governance - thankfully not in charge of cybersecurity! The fisheries exploited the fact that the site was running an out-of-date version of the Joomla content management system, which allowed them to the...

By Dave Larson, Chief Technical Officer of Corero Network Security The World Wide Web is only 25 years old, but it has overseen countless advances in the way it is written and manipulated. Look at DDoS attacks – once simple volumetric attacks have now become deceptive and capable of carrying out several functions at once. Yet responses to this threat have not enjoyed the same rapid developments. This article examines what ISPs and carriers can...

In today's news: A 16 year-old boy from Norwich was in custody and his address was being searched, London police said in a statement on Tuesday. On Saturday, a 20 year-old man from Staffordshire was arrested following the detainment of a 16 year-old in West London and a 15 year-old boy in Northen Ireland. All three have been released on bail. TalkTalk shocked customers last month when the broadband, TV, mobile and fixed-line service provider...

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...