A paper published this week by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) demonstrates that contactless payment card data can be intercepted at more than four times the distance laid down by standards.
Finnish Government Network Hacked
Finnish foreign minister Erkki Tuomioja yesterday confirmed reports that the country’s government networks had been breached by hackers. Local TV station MTV3 had earlier claimed that Chinese or Russian agents may have been involved.
RSA Europe 2013: SMB Websites More Toxic than Pornographic Sites says Symantec
Legitimate SMB websites pose a greater cybersecurity threat than pornography sites, says Sian John, security strategist at Symantec.
Apple iOS Apps Found to Have a Common Hijacking Vulnerability
A flaw impacting Apple iOS-based apps has been discovered that, if exploited, could allow an attacker to hijack the server URL from which mobile applications load their data, replacing the served data with his own content.
Attackers Ramp Up Threats to the Energy Sector
The US energy sector experienced the largest number of malware attacks of any industry in the spring and summer of 2012, with the end result being expensive outages at pipelines, oil refineries and drilling platforms. This year, brute-force attacks and…
Building Security In Maturity Model: Version 5 Released
BSIMM-V is effectively a scorecard that can be used by companies to either measure or improve their existing software development security stance. It is not a ‘standard’ in the regulatory sense; it more a practical description of actual best practices.
RSA Europe 2013: The Lessons BT Learnt from Securing London 2012
The lessons learnt from securing the digital infrastructure at the London 2012 Games have given BT a better understanding of how to do cyber defence, said Mark Hughes, CEO of BT Security in his keynote at RSA Europe today
Adobe Breached Users Now Estimated at 38 Million
When news of the Adobe breach emerged at the beginning of October, the company admitted that bank card and other personal information on 2.9 million users had been stolen together with usernames and passwords for an undisclosed number of customers. Tha…
Microsoft SIR Report Highlights Risks of Unsupported Software Ahead of XP Withdrawal
On April 8 2014, Microsoft will withdraw all support from the XP operating system, despite 21% of the worldwide OS marketplace still using it, and 13% of the UK. The results of the latest Microsoft SIR report prove just how vulnerable this will leave u…
Frost & Sullivan Report Positions Women as Future Infosec Leaders
There are two undisputed facts in the information security marketplace: there is a severe skills shortage; and women are dramatically under-represented in the security workforce. A new Frost & Sullivan report argues that a solution to the former can be…