Are CISOs too confident?
CISOs and IT managers may be too confident in their capabilities to ensure their organizations security and defenses against a data breach, according to Courion. A majority …
Who is ultimately responsible for data security in the cloud?
A recent report following Infosecurity Europe 2014 suggested that 43 per cent of organisations had no enterprise visibility or control into whether employees were putting …
Quarter of all UK attacks target web services and applications
A comprehensive analysis of security alerts in 2013 reveals that a quarter of all attacks in the UK were application specific attacks or targeted at web applications. This is …
Employees take too many risks with Wi-Fi security
UK employees are potentially putting their companies at risk of cyber-attack when using mobile devices for work purposes while on holiday or on a short break, new research has …
What are the legal obligations to encrypt personal data?
A new report by UK-based law firm FieldFisher details legal obligations for encryption of personal data resulting from both industry compliance regimes, such as PCI DSS, …
UK government proposes life sentences for hackers
Hackers in the UK could be in for a world of problems, as the UK government is looking to hand out life-long prison sentences to those who are found guilty of organizing and …
How much confidence do financial organizations place in security controls?
The confidence financial organizations place in their security controls is only marginally better than the confidence retailers place in their controls, according to Tripwire. …
Improving training programs in cyber security
In this podcast, recorded at Hack In The Box Amsterdam 2014, Lisha Sterling, Developer Coordinator at Geeks Without Bounds, talks about the problems in cybersecurity …
What inspired you to start hacking?
This is a question that Jennifer Steffens, IOActive CEO, often asks hackers she meets on conferences around the world. More often than not, the answer is movies: War Games, …
Walking through Hack In The Box 2014 Amsterdam
This year’s Hack In The Box conference is being held at the De Beurs van Berlage, which is an impressive venue located in central Amsterdam. The organization, the …
Instant messaging Trojan spreads through the UK
Hundreds of computer systems have been infected with the latest instant messaging Trojan. Bitdefender has spotted an increasing wave of infections in the past week in …
Operation takes down crime network affecting European electronic payments
Bulgarian and French judicial and law enforcement authorities, working in close cooperation with the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) at Europol and Eurojust in The Hague, …
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