This week, the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) reminds us that, “our day-to-day life depends on the country’s 16 sectors of critical infrastructure, which supply food, water, financial services, public health, communications…
Month: October 2018
Bots Targeting SSH Servers and Brute-Forcing Entry
Botnets have been growing more prevalent, and SophosLabs has discovered a new family of denial-of-service (DoS) bots used in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The family, dubbed Chalubo, has been used in attacks targeting…
Morrisons Loses Insider Breach Liability Appeal
Supermarket giant Morrisons has been told by the Court of Appeal that it is liable for the actions of a malicious insider who breached data on 100,000 employees, setting up a potential…
New Data Finds Industrial Control Systems Soft Targets for Adversaries
The data shows major security gaps remain in key areas such as plain-text passwords, direct connections to the internet, and weak anti-virus protections. Although the prevalence of Windows XP and…
Cybersecurity Best Practices Calls for Penetration Testing
As attacks become more sophisticated, penetration testing is becoming a must-have security measure The tactics cybercriminals employ are as clever as they are numerous, and show no signs of slowing…
NSA Tools Used to Attack Nuclear Energy Firms
Security researchers have spotted a new campaign using two attack frameworks and a backdoor allegedly developed by the NSA to spy on scores of targets in Russia, Iran and Egypt.…