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Wikileaks has published hundreds of thousands of emails and documents related to the Sony Pictures cyber attack.   The archive apparently includes Sony conversations with Downing Street and with Hollywood figures, and includes more than 170,000 emails and over 20,000 documents.   Sony said it "strongly condemns" the Wikileaks release. "We vehemently disagree with WikiLeaks' assertion that this material belongs in the public domain,'' the company said in a statement.   FULL STORY

Approximately 29 million health records were affected by data breaches between 2010 and 2013 in the US — 67 per cent of which were stored electronically.   According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, these data breaches involved unencrypted information that could be identified and tied back to individuals.   Overall, 58 per cent of the data breaches occurred via theft. The other 42 per cent had to do...

Brandy Peterson has been named as the new chief technology officer of FireMon.   In joining FireMon, Peterson brings over 18 years of IT security and software engineering experience, including 16 years at FishNet Security where he helped launch FishNet Security’s commercial security operations center. At FireMon, Peterson will be focused primarily on expansion of the company’s growing Solutions Architecture Group, dedicated to helping customers respond to changing business and technology drivers including the continued...

A small cyber espionage group has been exposed when it retaliated against an attack launched by another advanced persistent threat (APT) group.   Researchers at Kaspersky Lab were investigating Naikon, one of the most active threat groups in Asia, when they came across the activities of a different actor which they have dubbed “Hellsing.”   Just days after the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370) disappeared last year, Naikon started targeting various government organizations in countries...

While 87 per cent of IT decision-makers feel their organisation’s perimeter security is effective at keeping out security threats, 30 per cent admit their company has fallen victim to a data breach.   According to Gemalto’s 2015 Data Security Confidence Index, 33 per cent of IT decision-makers think that unauthorised users are still able to access their networks, and 34 per cent are not confident in the security of their organisation’s data should a breach...

Akamai Technologies has launched the Akamai Cloud Security Intelligence, a data processing engine within the Akamai Intelligent Platform which is used to continuously analyse more than two Petabytes of data related to web security threats.   Akamai Cloud Security Intelligence is designed to provide more comprehensive insight into how malicious actors are attacking web properties, which in turn can be used to inform the direction of Akamai's Cloud Security Solutions.   John Summers, vice president...

Alien Vault has announced the launch of the closed beta for the second version of its Open Threat Exchange (OTX 2.0).   A “generational enhancement” of its Open Threat Exchange platform, the company said it is designed to empower security professionals and IT practitioners of all skill levels and resources with the ability to collaboratively build and defend themselves with high level threat intelligence.   The new features within OTX 2.0 allow users toextract indicators...

BT has launched “BT Assure Cyber”, an advanced security platform designed to offer complete and comprehensive monitoring, detection and protection against cyber threats targeted at private sector and Government organisations.   Bringing together event data and telemetry from a rich variety of sources including business systems, traditional security controls and advanced detection tools, BT Assure Cyber allows vulnerabilities and incidents to be identified and acted on immediately.   It uses a number of advanced analytics...

QinetiQ’s data security company Boldon James has announced a partnership with Websense to deliver an integrated approach to data loss prevention and data classification.   The partnership bolsters the existing relationship that the companies have developed over the past 12 months working on joint projects and raises the bar for best practice in delivering a data loss prevention strategy, forming the cornerstone of any organisation’s overall security approach.   John Stringer, global product manager for...

Among its April 2015 patches, Microsoft has released an update that disables SSL 3.0 by default in Internet Explorer 11.   According to Maliha Qureshi, senior program manager of customer experience quality at Microsoft, enterprise customers can choose to enable SSL 3.0 for compatibility with their web applications, however it strongly recommended that they update their web servers and web applications to use latest security protocols such as TLS 1.2.   “Most customers have automatic...