security awareness
Law firms get hacked for deal data
A successful cooperation between a law firm and its clients depends on the firm’s ability of keeping the details of these relationships confidential – something …
Researchers demonstrate tragic state of SCADA security
Since the discovery of Stuxnet, we’ve been hearing from a variety of researchers about security vulnerabilities in SCADA computer systems. While some researchers such as …
Data Privacy Day 2012 is upon us
Coordinated and led by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), Data Privacy Day on January 28, 2012 will promote the importance of data privacy and encourage digital …
SharePoint users develop insecure habits
Microsoft SharePoint users are aware of the risks that exposing sensitive data can cause to their organization, yet unbelievably they are using the collaboration tool as an …
Questioning of incoming data crucial for security awareness
In the last six-to-twelve months, we have witnessed many different cyber attacks. Hacktivists were making a statement, the players behind the so-called Advanced Persistent …
Researcher blasts Siemens for lying about SIMATIC bugs
The contentious issue of responsible and coordinated vulnerability disclosure has been revisited again as security researcher Billy Rios reacted to a statement made by Siemens …
New UK Cyber Security Strategy revealed
The UK Government’s Cabinet Office has published today a new Cyber Security Strategy whose aim is, among other things, to make the UK one of the most secure places in …
Infected MyBB release package offered for download
The development team of MyBB (MyBulletinBoard), a popular PHP and MySQL-based free forum package, warned its users about the fact that its latest version available for …
Security pros say that hackers have the upper hand
The numbers don’t lie: now, more than ever, security professionals feel outgunned by attackers and the level of automation employed in most campaigns against enterprise …
Fake virus warning from company IT department brings real malware
Emails purportedly coming from a company’s IT department has been spotted targeting users of various big companies and trying to make them download malware for the last …
A call for a new approach to security
RSA executives advised security professionals that the new fact of life for IT organizations is a state of persistent, dynamic, intelligent threats in which it is no longer a …
Don’t worry about zero-days, says Microsoft
Microsoft released its Security Intelligence Report volume 11 (SIRv11), which found that less than 1 percent of exploits in the first half of 2011 were against zero-day …