Infosecurity News
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.
Cost of User Security Training Tops $290K Per Year
Employees spend seven hours a year in training and learning best practices to help keep the business secure.
Average Company Subjected to Hundreds of Daily Web App Attacks
In the second quarter, one company was targeted more than 35,000 times in just one day.
Threat Intelligence Strategies Suffer from Data Overload
86% of organizations believe threat intelligence is valuable to their security mission, but many of them struggle with it.
Equifax Blames Breach on Apache Struts Flaw
Equifax has blamed last week’s data breach on an Apache Struts vulnerability
(ISC)2: Lack of Training Investments Worsens Skills Gap
Many organizations are not fully maximizing the opportunity to empower and equip their IT staff.
BlueBorne Threatens Billions of IoT Devices with Complete Takeover
It affects nearly all devices with Bluetooth, including smartphones, TVs, laptops, watches, smart TVs and cars.
