This Week's Gurus

After the biggest DDoS attack of all time was reported in late September, cyber-criminals wasted no time in mounting their next operation. Less than a month later, a further broad-based attack crashed major online services including Twitter, Spotify, Netflix and PayPal. As before, a large number of smart devices connected via the internet of things (IoT) were hijacked to mount the attack. They included everything from video recorders to home-based routers and manipulated webcams. These...

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration recently issued rules that ease access to becoming a commercial drone pilot. The rules state that pilots must operate an aircraft that weighs less than 55 pounds, while remaining below 400 feet and within the operator's visual line of sight. Flying over crowds of people is also prohibited. While these rules are in place to prevent types of privatized surveillance, there is still reasonable concern from people who find an...

Today, Israel is one of the biggest tech hubs in the world, with more entrepreneurs per capita than any other country. There is one start up for every 1,844 citizens (or 2.5 times the U.S. rate). One key area, which Israel is heavily focusing on, is Cyber Security, which in the 21st Century has become a universal issue. Cyber crime now costs the UK economy up to 27 billion pounds a year and companies are...

In the first half of 2016 alone, there were more than one million incidents of financial fraud, an increase of 53 per cent on the same period last year; with identity fraud against individuals costing an estimated five billion pounds last year. Identity fraud occurs when an imposter pretends to be someone else. To prevent this, banks ask customers for passwords, but judging from the fraud figures, this isn’t working and things are getting worse....

Is This The New ISIS? Tweleve days ago, the largest-ever denial of a service attack on US soil was carried out against a critical part of our Internet – a major DNS service that acts as an address book to map friendly website names to IP addresses. The attack essentially wiped out most of the East Coast’s internet connection, including major sites like Twitter, Amazon, Netflix, and others.   Whoever was responsible used an army...

Kevin Davis, Associate Director at SQS and UK Head of Digital Transformation The emergence of new technologies in the last decade has irreversibly changed the way we live, work, and communicate; whether it is how we shop, bank or order a taxi. This shift hasn’t been born out of a research and development facility but, more often than not, driven by customer behaviour, leaving many businesses struggling to keep pace within a rapidly changing market....

Phil Greenwood, Country Managing Director and Commercial Director at Iron Mountain ‘Paper free’ has been a buzz word for around thirty years now. It’s a phrase that conjures up images of businesses with decluttered and contemporary offices, or people who live minimalistic and entirely modern lives. Lives where all files are digital, where in-trays are banned and where bank statements, bills or other personal paperwork isn’t bringing chaos to home offices and desk drawers. World Paper...

The Cerber family of ransomware has recently been updated to include new feature. Yesterday's new 4.1.0 and 4.1.1. iterations of the dangerous virus has proved that the computer criminals are not going to stop to devise new ways to infect as many targets as possible. The New Cerber Variants Are Upon Us A new wave of malware threats has been identified by security researchers worldwide. Unfortunately the first analyses confirmed that our fears have been...

by Bogdan Botezatu, Senior E-Threat Analyst at Bitdefender “Artificial intelligence has been seeping into our lives in all sorts of ways, without us noticing,” President Obama said in a recent interview. The truth is, we use intelligent services and products daily. Learning algorithms drive cars and planes, help us find information, fight online fraud and money-laundering and much more. However, crosstalk about artificial intelligence reveals that people still envision it as harmful ‘superintelligence’ that will...

by Mike Puglia, Chief Product Officer, Kaseya  The future for the managed services sector continues to look healthy. Recent research from analyst, MarketsandMarkets projects that the market will grow from US$145.33 Billion in 2016 to US$242.45 Billion by 2021, at a CAGR of 10.8%. However, in spite of that, many managed service providers (MSPs) are struggling to keep up to speed with this rapid growth while many others would like to be growing even faster....