Infosecurity News Features
Cyber Start-Up Company of the Year Talks Phishing Defense
Inky produces phishing technologies that are built on machine learning technologies, and recently won a VC-voted award
The Rabid Ransomware Bunnies Behind #BadRabbit
The main Bad Rabbit entry point was a rogue Flash update and once infected, it was able to pass through networks via open protocols.
Cyber Challenge Foundation Launched at Stephanie Daman Memorial
The Cyber Security Challenge has launched a charity in the memory of former CEO Stephanie Daman, who passed away in June of this year
The Battle for Cybersecurity Talent in America: East Coast vs. West Coast
Infosecurity Magazine explores the theory that all good cybersecurity talent migrates to the West Coast of America...
Two Weeks Before WannaCry: Surviving a Zero-Day Ransomware Attack
There are many factors that can be gained from this experience, not least realizing how capable the attackers were
Skills Shortage Includes a Lack of Teachers
Lochgelly High School sent out a letter to parents stating they will be unable to teach computing to pupils after the only ‘capable’ teacher left for another school
Cybersecurity Behind the Scenes at Wimbledon
Eleanor Dallaway investigates how IBM secures Wimbledon, one of the world's most popular sporting events
Flash Enters Final Three Years as Adobe Pulls Support Plug
Adobe announced this week that it plans to bring down the curtain on the Flash Player in three years.
Alpha Bay Takedown Shows Government Collaboration Capability
Described as “roughly ten times the size” of the Silk Road, the dark web market Alpha Bay has been taken down in a joint effort between international law enforcement, US government departments and Europol.
Are Cybersecurity Companies Compatible with the Cloud?
Dan Raywood talks to CloudShare’s VP R&D, Muly Gottlieb, about the battle between cloud and security
#EuroCACS: Where Awareness and Learning are King
One of the main themes appeared to be that of incident response, and security awareness
GDPR: One Year and Counting
Today marks exactly 12 months until the European GDPR comes into effect and with just a year to go it’s now imperative that companies of all sizes are fully focused on getting their houses in order
All You Need to Know about the Cyber Retraining Academy
The Cyber Retraining Academy is an HM Government program delivered in partnership with SANS to address the cybersecurity skills gap
Will Vault7 Shake Infosec Like Snowden?
The Wikileaks ‘Vault7’ release earlier this month reignited the reality of state-sponsored espionage, and what our governments know about us
Security Certifications are Useless, Right?
How many security jobs have you seen recently that said “CISSP not required, we don’t care what level of education you’ve attained, we just care that you’re super smart at security”?
ACE Skills Learned & on Display
Teams were information security professionals working for a fictional power company ‘Transcorp’ which had been taken over, and it was the job of the teams to use their skills to take back the network
Neurodiversity & Cybersecurity Careers: Recruiting & Retaining Autistic Cybersecurity Professionals
At the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom on March 2 2017, many relevant parties gathered to discuss neurodiversity and careers in cybersecurity
Detect, Protect and Survive
Incident response has become one of those areas of cybersecurity that people think they could do better, but how often do they test it and how well could they actually act in the event of an incident occurring?
Help Save the Youth of Cyber
The news over the weekend was full of stories about how the youth of the UK was going to be taught cyber skills.
Password Managers - Resolution to Authentication Headaches
“Password managers are a good thing” as they give “huge advantages in a world where there's far too many passwords for anyone to remember”
