A new worm that would seem more at home in the Windows PC environment than on a mobile phone has made an appearance on the Android platform, bringing classic worm behavior with it.
Infosecurity Europe 2014 > Big Data is No Universal Solution for Security Intelligence
Improved monitoring and analytics can improve the information available to IT security teams. But shifting patterns of work mean it only offers partial insights.
Infosecurity Europe 2014 > Whistleblowing Keeps Security Under Scrutiny Says Hypponen
Whistleblowers have exposed issues around data custody and data privacy, says Mikko Hypponen.
UK & Ireland See ‘Drastic Spike’ in APT Attacks
The UK was one of the top ten countries in the world exposed to APT attacks in 2013, when measured by number of unique verticals targeted. With 12 unique verticals hit, the UK was tied for fourth with France and Thailand.
UK’s National Crime Agency Appoints Cyber Crime Unit Director
The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has appointed Jamie Saunders as the new director of its National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU).
Infosecurity Europe 2014 > Security Can Be A Business Enabler
Organisations can use security to drive the business forward,an Infosecurity Europe keynote panel says.
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 …