Infosecurity News
Volumetric Attacks and the IoT Dominate DDoS Scene
Also, 75% of attacks employed blended, multi-vector approaches in Q2.
Federal Employees Overwhelmingly Support NIST CSF Mandate
Trump's mandate for agencies to adopt the Obama-era Cybersecurity Framework is a hit among federal workers.
Police: Buying Fake Goods Online Can Lead to ID Theft
City of London Police says over 4,000 sites were created using stolen IDs
#ISC2Congress: FBI Calls for a Rational Non-Emotional Approach to Risk and Security
The information security industry needs to adopt rational models rather than emotional ones for risk management, according to the Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI, Donald Freese.
BankBot Resurfaces in Google Play with New Tricks
It calls itself Jewels Star Classic—in an effort to be conflated with a legitimate mobile game called simply Jewels Star.
Deloitte Hack Exposes Confidential Email for World's Largest Companies—Report
The attackers hit the global email server via a hacked administrator account lacking two-factor authentication.
Over a Quarter of UK Councils Hit by Ransomware
The good news is that local authorities are backing up, not paying up
Verizon Hit by Another Amazon S3 Leak
Engineer-owned bucked containing data marked ‘confidential’ exposed
Massive Wave of Ransom DDoS Threats Sweeps Globe
A group calling themselves the Phantom Squad is threatening thousands of companies with DDoS if they don’t pay a ransom.
Apple Safari Privacy Cookie Features Praised
Apple’s move to add Intelligent Tracking Protection and close loopholes around third-party cookie-blocking in Safari has been praised by privacy advocates
FedEx: NotPetya Cost Us $300 Million
Subsidiary TNT still not fully back up to speed
SecureAuth and Core Security Announce Merger Plans
SecureAuth and Core Security have announced plans to merge, combining security operations and identity and access management
IBM: Crypto-Mining Attacks Increased Six-Fold in 2017
Vulnerable enterprise servers increasingly targeted
Uninspiring Lessons Threaten to Worsen Cyber-Skills Crisis
McAfee report finds few school leavers with positive memories of IT teaching
Web Cam Child Exploitation Gang Gets 171 Years in Jail
Final four were sentenced on Friday
Fitbit Vulnerabilities Expose Wearer Data
Flaws allowed access to personal information.
Most Wanted Malware: Banking Trojans Come to the Fore Again
Banking trojans were extensively used by cyber-criminals during August, with three variants appearing in Check Point’s latest Global Threat Impact Index.
Equifax CIO and CSO Retire Amid Confusion Over Patching
Firm now says it was ‘aware’ of bug months before it was patched
OurMine Leaks Huge Cache of Vevo Information Online
The leak contains 3.12TB worth of internal files from the music video giant, containing both benign and sensitive information.
Mobile Insecurity Snowballs in 2017
In the first half of 2017, there were more flaws registered for Android and iOS than all of 2016.
