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DDoS and web application attacks keep escalating

Akamai Technologies released its Second Quarter, 2016 State of the Internet / Security Report, which highlights the cloud security landscape, specifically trends with DDoS and …

ClixSense
6.6 million ClixSense users exposed in wake of site, company hack

If you’ve ever registered with ClixSense – and millions have – you can consider all your personal information shared with the service compromised. The …

Chevrolet Suburban
GM recalls 3.6 million cars due to potentially fatal software defect

Last Friday, General Motors has announced that the owners of some 3.64 million of its vehicles will have to come in for a re-flash of their sensing and diagnostic module (SDM) …

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Improve SecOps by making collaboration easier

There’s one word that we’ve consistently been hearing from information security pundits year after year: Collaboration. More often than not, they were talking …

Europe
GDPR: Are you prepared?

Many European and US businesses are ill-prepared for the recently agreed EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and are at risk of falling foul of its rules around the …

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Ransomware usage explodes, as app, browser and plug-in vulnerabilities increase

Bromium conducted research on cyber attacks and threats affecting enterprise security over the last six months. The good news is while the number of vulnerabilities is …

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Securing information in the age of external collaboration

A new Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research study, which was completed by 200 senior IT and security professionals with influence over purchasing decisions, highlights the …

DDoS
Business still ill-prepared to handle modern DDoS attacks

In September 1996, New York City’s original ISP, Panix, was hit by a SYN flood denial of service attack that took them offline for several days. At a time when only 20 million …

Stingray
Stingray use lacks transparency and meaningful oversight

Cell-site simulators – aka Stingrays, aka IMSI catchers – are widely used by US law enforcement, usually without a warrant that such type of surveillance should …

DDoS Downtime Calculator
DDoS downtime calculator based on real-world information

Are you wondering how you can assess the risks associated with a DDoS attack? Incapsula’s free DDoS Downtime Calculator offers case-specific information adjusted to the …

Gold
Man hacked, blackmailed gold bullion trading firm

25-year-old Adam Penny hacked the systems of an unnamed gold bullion trading firm, and used the stolen information about gold deliveries to intercept them before they are …

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US 911 emergency system can be crippled by a mobile botnet

What would it take for attackers to significantly disrupt the 911 emergency system across the US? According to researchers from Ben-Gurion Univerisity of the Negev’s …

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