A Snowden-style finance whistleblower, who seems to have grown a conscience, has blown the whistle on Barclays bank for the loss and subsequent mis-use of 27,000 files of detailed personal data on customers and potential customers. Those files reached …
Imperva Buys Skyfence and Incapsula to Improve its Cloud Security Offering
While launching a new cloud strategy, Imperva has simultaneously announced the acquisition of Skyfence (a cloud security start-up) and Tomium (a mainframe monitoring firm); and has agreed to buy the remaining shares in its majority owned subsidiary, In…
Target Hackers May Have Gotten In Through the Air Conditioner
More details of the Target breach continue to be revealed, with the latest intel pointing to the air conditioning guys being used as an entry point by the hackers. The hackers came in through the vents, so to speak.
Bredo Botnet: Is it Coming Back?
Earlier in the week, many consumers experienced a big spike in email spam volume – messages targeting containing financial malware that’s familiar from the not-too-distant past.
IAM for the Third Platform
As more people are using the phrase “third platform”, I’ll assume it needs no introduction or explanation. The
mobile workforce has been mobile for a few years now. And most organizations have moved critical services to cloud-based offerings. It’s not…
How To Protect In Cafe/Public Computers While Surfing Internet?
People who surf internet on cafe/public computers, are more vulnerable to be hacked, reason is simple! They are unaware from the software installed on public computers, their privileges. It’s always secure to access internet from your personal computer…
US and Belarus Take Home Top Honors in Spam Rankings
The US is once again the world’s spammiest nation, topping the 2013 “Spampionship” league table published by Sophos.
Barclays Leads in Web Security among UK Banks
When it comes to banks, Barclay’s arguably has one of the highest profiles in the world, thanks to its sponsorship of the English Premier League. But it should be known for something else as well: it came in first in security functionality in Forrester…
GCHQ Used DDoS Attack on Anonymous’ Communications
A top secret presentation by GCHQ at a 2012 NSA conference called SIGDEV shows that the hitherto unknown GCHQ Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group launched a DDoS attack (called Rolling Thunder) on the IRC communications channels used by Anonymous …
PoS Breaches Spread with Thousands Affected at Marriott and Holiday Inn Locations
Target. Neiman Marcus. Michaels. The retail sector continues to crop up with point-of-sale (PoS)-led data breaches. But a new security breach affecting 14 Marriott, Holiday Inn, Westin, Renaissance and Radisson properties demonstrates that hospitality …