Payday loans and sports betting – the latter hitting new heights with the start of the football season – are behind the majority of messaging spam received in the UK.
A DDoS Attack Could Cost $1 Million Before Mitigation Even Starts
A new report suggests that companies are unaware of the extent of the DDoS threat, unaware of the potential cost of an attack, and over-reliant on traditional and inadequate in-house defenses.
SQL Injection and Cross-site Scripting Attacks Surge in Q3
Cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection activity is up 32% in the third quarter, as those with malicious intent look to specifically target web-facing and cloud applications carrying sensitive information about organizations and their customers.
UN Nuclear Agency Computers Infected with Malware
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has admitted that some of its computers have been infected with malware for at least the last few months, but denies that any sensitive data regarding its nuclear inspections has been compromised.
Google and Arbor Networks Team Up on DDoS Digital Attack Map
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are getting more frequent and harder to detect. To help companies keep up with daily threat levels, Arbor Networks has collaborated with Google Ideas to create a data visualization map of global attacks.
Consumers Take Their Business Elsewhere After a Data Breach
The costs of data breaches have been well-documented when it comes to remediation and consulting costs, but the more qualitative fallout from a breach, like the impact to brand identity, is harder to pin down.
European Civil Liberties Committee Approves Current Draft Data Protection Regulation
Edward Snowden’s leaked information on the character and extent of NSA surveillance brought new impetus to the European Commission’s proposed new General Data Protection Regulation, which had been floundering under the weight of extensive US government…
25 New SCADA Flaws Emerge in Critical Infrastructure
Researchers have found at least 25 new vulnerabilities in SCADA software, which controls critical infrastructure that, among other things, keeps clean water and reliable heat and electricity flowing to houses.
TalariaX Receives Renewed Certification as RSA SecurID Partner
Singapore-based TalariaX, and its sendQuick appliance-based SMS gateway, will continue as a SecurID partner for RSA Authentication Manager 8
One-in-Five 9–11 Year-Old Children Admit to Meeting a Stranger They Speak to Online
Today is the first day of Get Safe Online Week 2013, “an annual awareness campaign organized by Get Safe Online (GSOL) to reinforce the fact that people can stay online safely just by following some simple precautions.” But neither adults nor children …