The Internet of Storing Ransomware
On the 28th December, two Romanian suspects were charged with hacking in the USA. They have been formally named as Mihai Alexandru Isvanca, 25, and Eveline Cismaru, 28.
Both suspects were arrested...
KRACK Wi-Fi alert sparks patch scramble
Researchers from KU Leuven, a university in Belgium, have disclosed a long standing flaw in the way WiFi is secured. The flaw exists in the WPA2 protocol which manages the secure...
Accelerating incident response times
Ahead of RSA, SECDO has announced the availability of the SECDO Platform for Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs). It is designed to provide MSSPs with an underlying platform for the Security...
Cloud services want data rights
In its latest Cloud Adoption and risk report, cloud security vendors Skyhigh Networks reports that the use of cloud services jumped by 33% in 2015 to an average of 1038 per...
US snags another RBS WorldPay criminal
The US Attorney's Office of the Northern District of Georgia, USA, has finally arraigned the lead casher in the 2008 RBS WorldPay hack. The arraignment comes after the Czech Republic agreed...
Lifeboat Networks all at sea over security
Lifeboat Networks, a developer of games on Minecraft, has confirmed that it has suffered a security breach. In a press release it said: "We regret to inform you that the contents...
Are your Apple devices a security risk?
Centrify survey shows that unmanaged Apple devices are exposing sensitive customer and corporate data.
There has been a lot said about the security risks of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). Despite this...
Financial firms get threat intelligence
The Financial Service Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC ) and Soltra have announced deals with IBM to improve the sharing of threat intelligence data.
The deal with FS-ISAC will give 6,500 companies...
Trend Micro hacks into cars with ease
Security vendor Trend Micro has published research showing cars can be hacked with relative ease. The news may finally be the shock that wakes up the automotive industry and forces it...
TalkTalk systems breached
TalkTalk has become the latest business to admit that it had lost customer data, including credit card information, due to a cyberattack. According to one source up to 4m customer records are...