War has arguably been one of the constant themes throughout human history. What has evolved, is the weaponry that we have utilised in warfare. We have seen the sword evolve into the musket, into the rifle, into the machine gun, into mechanised warfare, into nuclear bombs, and now – the cyber attack. Simon Townsend looks at what organizations can do to protect themselves.
A research team from the University of Applied Sciences (FH) in Münster, Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven has demonstrated that the two most common email encryption standards are vulnerable to attacks.
Manufacturing is the top target for cyber attackers according to 2018 Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR) from NTT Security. The sector represented almost half (46 percent) of all UK cyber attacks in 2017 – more than double that of attacks on manufacturing across EMEA.
Fortinet has released the findings of its latest Global Threat Landscape Report, which highlights that cybercriminals are evolving their attack methods to increase their success rates and speed infections.
Ransomware attacks grew in volume by over 400 percent in 2017 compared with the previous year due to the WannaCry cryptoworm, but other ransomware attacks became less common as the year progressed, signaling a shift in how cyber criminals are using the malware.
Ixia has released its 2018 Security Report, highlighting the company’s biggest security findings over the past year from its Application and Threat Intelligence (ATI) Research Center. The report analyzes the growing exposure to cybersecurity risks as enterprises operate more of their workloads in the cloud.
EfficientIP has published the results of its 2018 Global DNS Threat Report. This looks at the impacts of DNS-based threats on businesses across the world. Over the past year, organizations on average faced seven DNS attacks, which cost some businesses more than $5 million in damages.
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a new document that will help organizations prepare better against potentially destructive attacks to the collection of hardware and firmware components of a computer system, also called the platform.
Positive Technologies has published the findings of its annual report on the state of e-banking security. The Financial Application Vulnerabilities Report, drawn from audits performed by the company, finds that two thirds of online banking systems still contain at least one critical vulnerability.
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