Activists for Tibet and China’s Uyghur community are being targeted once again, this time with an Adobe PDF vulnerability using the MiniDuke malware.
Malware attack recovery costs an average of $3,000 per day
Organizations citing cybersecurity costs as an impediment to implementing a layered defense should rethink their priorities: Denial of service (DDoS) and malware infection recovery costs range into the thousands of dollars – per day.
Nevermind Anonymous – organizations are in danger of DOSing themselves
The danger comes from staff bringing both their personal devices and their personal preferences to work – whether that’s listening to the radio, watching the latest episode of their favorite soap during break periods, or browsing YouTube.
CSO role expands to include organization-wide risk management
That information security is really an aspect of organizational risk management is well known in theory, but is now being mirrored in practice. New research demonstrates that CSOs are increasingly adopting a risk-based rather than tick-box approach to …
France, Skype go tête-à-tête over lawful intercept
Skype is running into a contretemps, as it were, with the French telecom authority over lawful intercept regulations, with some executives possibly facing criminal charges for non-compliance.
Amid banking DDoS attacks, Obama convenes cybersecurity meeting with CEOs
President Barack Obama is shining yet another light on the rising cybersecurity threat in the US, sitting down with more than a dozen CEOs inside the White House Situation Room to discuss how government and the private sector can work together to bette…
Celebrities, politicians lose privacy in doxxing attack
A range of political and celebrity targets have been made victims of a cyber-attack known as “doxxing”, by perpetrators using a Russian website.
Australia’s central bank admits it was hacked
The Reserve Bank of Australia has admitted that its been an ongoing target for hackers, although the nation’s central bank says no data has been lost as a result of the attacks.
VISA sued over PCI fines levied on retail company
In what is believed to be an industry first, Tennessee-based footwear and sports apparel retail chain Genesco is suing Visa over a $13 million dollar fine imposed following a data breach in 2010.
Kali Linux 1.0 Release – Moto – The Birth of Kali Linux
Kali Linux, the rising
It’s been 7 years since we released our first version of BackTrack Linux, and the ride so far has been exhilarating. When the dev team started talking about BackTrack 6 (almost a year ago), each of us put on paper a few &ld…