Cyber security is a vital consideration for all manner of businesses, from financial services providers to manufacturers of consumer goods. As wireless connectivity makes its way into more and more everyday products – from automobiles to household appliances – it becomes all the more important for manufacturers to ensure that sufficient IT security measures are … Continued
Company Network Security systems are facing a heightened DDoS threat from Mirai and other botnets. Recently, IoT devices – such as printers, routers, video cameras, and smart TVs – have been used to create large scale botnets. These networks of devices infected with self-propagating malware, allowing them to carry out crippling distributed denial-of-service attacks. How … Continued
On December 1st 2016, the United States Department of Homeland Security, working in collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a global Technical Alert in response to Avalanche – a crimeware-as-a-service network that has been used to steal from hundreds of millions of victims around the globe. So what exactly is Avalanche, how … Continued
Hackers are getting more and more sophisticated, even the best security companies can be hacked. A Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab announced that it had detected a sophisticated and expensive hack on its systems. They have since fixed the hole that allowed for the attack, but this proves that attacks are happening to companies small and large … Continued
