The cost of cyber-crime in the UK has steadily increased over the last three years. By Sooraj Shah Cyber-crime costs UK firms an eye-watering average of £4.1m a year, a…
Day: October 8, 2015
Post-Stuxnet hack group builds formidable LinkedIn phish network
Iran-based ‘Cleaver’ team hacking its way through networks, airport security. Darren Pauli: An accomplished Iran-based attack group known as “Cleaver” has created a network of at least 25 well-developed LinkedIn…
Most UK Workers Feel More Vulnerable to Data Hacks Than a Year Ago
Two-thirds (65%) of UK workers feel more vulnerable to data hacks than they did a year ago. Tara Seals: According to new research from Citrix, the majority (71%) of respondents…
DDoS defences spiked by CloudPiercer tool - paper
70% of sites trying to hide true IP address cough their secrets. Darren Pauli: The real IP addresses of some 70 per cent of websites protected by popular distributed denial…
Near-flawless Social Engineering attack spoiled by single flaw
This Social Engineering email is almost flawless, but one mistake caused the entire attempt to fail. By Steve Ragan A reader recently shared an email that was sent to their…
Android malware hammers phones with unwanted ads
The Kemoge malware contains eight root exploits, FireEye said. By Jeremy Kirk Android users in more than 20 countries have been infected with a particularly aggressive malware program that bombards…