By concentrating their efforts on protecting themselves from external cyber attacks, are businesses overlooking the threat from within? Why organisations are getting cyber security so wrong Posted by Ben Rossi…
Month: May 2016
Hotel Security Warning after Spearphishing Email Spotted
A Panda Security white paper released last week highlighted a huge increase in credit card data theft from global hotel chains in 2015. Phil Muncaster Security experts are warning hotel…
DDoS costs, damages on the rise
Peak-time distributed denial-of-service attacks cost organizations more than $100,000 per hour. By Maria Korolov Peak-time distributed denial-of-service attacks cost organizations more than $100,000 per hour, said half of the respondents…
OpenSSL patches two high-severity flaws
Versions 1.0.2h and 1.0.1t of the cryptographic library also patch several more bugs of lesser impact. By Fahmida Y. Rashid OpenSSL has released versions 1.0.2h and 1.0.1t of its open…
Webmail firms probe login 'leak'
Several popular webmail providers are investigating a report that millions of their users’ login details are being shared online by a hacker. Google Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Microsoft Hotmail and Mail.ru…
Online extortion demands affecting businesses
Within the past 24 hours a number of businesses throughout the UK have received extortion demands from an online hacking group. The group have sent emails demanding payment of 5…