intrusion detection
Belgacom shares more details about alleged GCHQ breach
Late last year, documents from Edward Snowden’s NSA trove have revealed that Britain’s GCHQ has allegedly mounted a successful attack against primarily state-owned …
IBM’s Big Data analytics solution to uncover criminal cyber activity in seconds
IBM announced new high-speed analysis and criminal investigation software that is designed to uncover hidden criminal threats buried deep inside massive volumes of disparate …
Most IT sec pros still rely on perimeter security to stop APTs
78 percent of IT security professionals are confident that firewalls and antimalware tools are robust enough to combat today’s advanced persistent threats, say the …
Namecheap accounts brute-forced by CyberVor gang?
California-based domain registrar and web hosting firm Namecheap has been targeted by hackers, the company’s VP of hosting Matt Russell warned on Monday, and said that …
Security analytics solution identifies attacks in historic data
Arbor Networks is showcasing at Infosecurity Europe 2014 its Pravail Security Analytics, whose unique looping capability can be used to identify and establish an attack …
Heartbleed attacker hijacked VPN active user sessions
As the number of the most popular websites that still haven’t patched their servers against the Heartbleed exploit continues to diminish (go here for an up-to-date list …
New IDS project spots anomalous system behavior
A team of researchers from Binghamton University have been working on a new intrusion detection approach based on monitoring the behavior of systems and spotting when it …
DB Networks’ virtual IDS stops advanced SQL injection attacks
DB Networks introduced the IDS-6300v intelligent security virtual appliance, a new solution based on the next-generation Core Intrusion Detection System (IDS) platform …
Network forensics platform for the 10 Gig world
nPulse Technologies announced the launch of its Cyclone Network Forensics Platform, which builds on full packet capture by adding advanced, line-rate extraction of crucial …
Details about Neiman Marcus breach revealed
The Neiman Marcus breach is not as bad as previously believed, as the number of potentially affected cards dropped from 1.1 million to approximately 350,000. “The number …
Security gate for open doors
Internet crime has evolved to a full blown cyber-war, using internet servers as virtual soldiers to take down critical network infrastructures, or to steal information. While …
Network IDS reduces “white noise” for more focus on critical vulns
RandomStorm has announced the latest release of its next generation network intrusion detection system (NIDS), StormProbe. StormProbe analyses all network traffic, using more …