UK consumers committed to mobile privacy
Spurred by high-profile data breaches, Edward Snowden’s revelations, and by the growing awareness that their smartphones hold a lot of sensitive data, most UK users have …
State-sponsored hackers target European, Israeli organizations
Rocket Kitten, the APT group of attackers that have been delivering spear-phishing emails with the Ghole malware to Israeli and European institutions late last year, have …
Search for vulnerable servers unearths weak, thousands-times repeated RSA keys
A group of researchers from the Information Security Group from Royal Holloway, University of London, wanted to see how many TLS servers still supported the weak, export-grade …
Cutting-edge security research comes to Amsterdam
Held once again at De Beurs van Berlage, HITB2015AMS takes place from the 26-29 May 2015 and runs alongside HITB Haxpo, a 3-day technology expo for hackers, makers, builders …
Transport for London adopts ultra-secure USB drives
Transport for London (TfL) has adopted ultra-secure USB flash drives to ensure that its data is protected in the event of the loss or theft of portable devices. DatAshur USB …
UK: 57 arrested for cyber crime, including US DoD hacker
Last week was a busy one for UK law enforcement, as agents from the National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) of the National Crime Agency (NCA) spearheaded a nationwide cyber crime …
Exposing the organized crime of tomorrow
Europol identified a series of key driving factors that will impact the future landscape of serious and organized crime in Europe. A decline of traditional hierarchical …
Security framework for governments deploying the cloud
ENISA released a framework structured into four phases, nine security activities and fourteen steps that details the set of actions Member States should follow to define and …
The business and social impacts of cyber security issues
With multiple recent high profile attacks targeting household names and large employers, individuals increasingly fear cyber crime and its resulting consequences at work as …
3 million strong RAMNIT botnet taken down
The National Crime Agency’s National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) worked with law enforcement colleagues in the Netherlands, Italy and Germany, co-ordinated through …
How important is the critical information infrastructure?
ENISA issued methodologies for the identification of Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) services in communication networks. This study provides state of the art …
Banking Trojan Dyreza sends 30,000 malicious emails in one day
A massive spam wave is installing banking Trojan Dyreza on tens of thousands of computers to steal sensitive financial data from unsuspecting customers, warns Bitdefender. …