Infosecurity Europe 2014 > Security Can Be A Business Enabler
Organisations can use security to drive the business forward,an Infosecurity Europe keynote panel says.
Author: CySecBot
Univ. of Central Florida Wins National Cyber Defense Competition
This past weekend, the University of Central Florida defeated nine other finalist teams to win the 2014 Raytheon National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC), held in San Antonio, Texas. The largest collegiate cybersecurity competition in the …
HP Addresses Executive Security Gap with Metrics-driven Consulting Service
HP has announced a new consulting services practice, named HP Security Metrics Services, an initiative to provide data that can deepen executive-level security engagement by demonstrating how specific security risks directly imperil business objectives.
China’s Google Equivalent, Sohu, Used For Massive DDoS
Sohu.com, China’s eighth-largest website and currently the 27th most-visited website in the world, was the unwitting originator of a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack earlier in the month, which was carried out using traffic hijacking…
Google Swaps Out Crypto Ciphers in OpenSSL
Google has incorporated a new TLS cipher suite in Chrome that operates three times faster than AES-GCM on devices that don’t have AES hardware acceleration, including most Android phones, wearable devices such as Google Glass and older computers. This …
Android Wallpaper Apps Hide Bitcoin Mining Malware
Is your smartphone running low on battery for seemingly no reason? Are things taking longer to render or load? Your gadget could be secretly mining bitcoins, thanks to a piece of mobile malware in Google Play that quietly uses an Android phone’s proces…
GBGroup Acquires DecTech to Build Joint Identity and Fraud Portfolio
Identity intelligence specialist GBGroup (GBG) is acquiring DecTech Solutions, an Australian provider of fraud detection, risk management and customer on-boarding solutions, for $34.4 million. Together they plan to deliver a joint identity and fraud so…
NIST Releases Mobile App Vetting Tool
The consumerization of IT and the bring-your-own-device phenomenon in the enterprise has given rise to concerns over data security stemming from risky mobile applications and unsecured devices. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIS…
Fake Porn App is First SMS Trojan to Land on US Soil
SMS trojans are starting to appear in more and more countries, and for the first time, researchers have detected an active SMS trojan in the US.
Banking Trojans, Bitcoins and Espionage Dominate Recent Cyber-threats
Mobile banking trojans! Bitcoin wallet attacks! Cyber-espionage threats! It turns out that these three cyber-baddies are developing their attack trajectories exactly as predicted for 2014.