IT disaster recovery, cloud computing and information security news

DDoS attacks: know your enemy

Details: Published: Friday, 22 April 2016 07:29

Andreas Åsander looks at how knowing your attacker’s location is the latest weapon in the fight against DDoS attacks.

Ten security questions every CIO must be able to answer…

Details: Published: Wednesday, 20 April 2016 08:38

Logicalis has prepared a list of ten questions which CIOs must have an answer for to ensure that their organization is adequately prepared for a cyber-incident. The questions offer a useful checklist for any information security planning activities

Cybersecurity industry ‘fighting the wrong battle for 20 years’

Details: Published: Thursday, 14 April 2016 07:47

A new white paper by cybersecurity veteran Chris Pogue argues that the technology industry has been ‘fighting the wrong battle with the wrong weapons’ against cybercrime for the past two decades.

Reputation damage is the biggest impact of data breaches: survey

Details: Published: Thursday, 21 April 2016 08:54

Cyber risk research carried out by YouGov on behalf of Noddle Protect amongst senior decision-makers in large businesses, has revealed that if businesses were to fall victim to a data breach, 57 percent say their biggest concern would be damage to their reputation

Dealing with the risk of DDoS ransom attacks

Details: Published: Tuesday, 19 April 2016 07:18

Jake Madders highlights the increasing trend for distributed denial of service attacks to come with a ransom demand and explains what organizations can do to handle such a situation.

DNS redirection security mechanism flawed say researchers

Details: Published: Wednesday, 13 April 2016 09:04

Cloud-based security providers commonly use DNS redirection to protect customers' websites: however, computer scientists from KU Leuven, Belgium, and digital research centre iMinds have found that the protected IP address can be retrieved in more than 70 percent of cases.

Retail sector now at highest risk of cybercrime

Details: Published: Thursday, 21 April 2016 08:42

New research published in the NTT 2016 Global Threat Intelligence Report reveals that cybercriminals have shifted their focus from traditional financial markets, to targeting the retail sector. Retail organizations experienced nearly three times as many cyberattacks as those in the finance sector

Employees are twice as likely to take risks on work devices than they are on personal ones: survey

Details: Published: Thursday, 14 April 2016 08:33

WinMagic, Inc. has released the results of a new study analysing the disconnect between end-user employees and IT managers, when it comes to information security.

Absence of anti-DDoS protection putting business-critical systems at risk: survey

Details: Published: Friday, 08 April 2016 08:20

The results of a survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International show that a quarter of companies risk losing access to business-critical systems because there is no anti-DDoS protection in place.