The Chinese cyber-spies behind the widely publicised espionage campaign against?The New York Times?have added Dropbox and WordPress to their bag of spear-phishing tricks. The gang, known in security circles as the DNSCalc gang, has been ...
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Security monitoring – the type involving traditional security information and event management (SIEM) – can be done in some public cloud environments, according to Gartner. And if you're using public cloud services, it's time to ...
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Organizations face malware-related events that bypass traditional defense technologies on their networks every three minutes, according to a new report released Wednesday by security vendor FireEye. "This activity can include the receipt ...
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HP on Monday unveiled its Big Data Security strategy, describing how combining the enterprise search and knowledge management resources from its Autonomy subsidiary with its ArcSight security-event and information management (SIEM) can ...
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Cyber attacks on U.S. banks over the last several months reflect a frightening new era in cyber warfare, according to security expert Darren Hayes, who says that corporations are unprepared to battle such attacks because of a shortage of ...
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Enterprise IT security professionals faced increasingly sophisticated, stealthy and dynamic threats in 2012, but numerous surveys revealed that knowledge and understanding of the latest attack techniques are lacking in many organisations. ...
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CoDeSys, a piece of software running on industrial control systems (ICS) from over 200 vendors contains a vulnerability that allows potential attackers to execute sensitive commands on the vulnerable devices without the need for ...
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Advanced malware that evades signature-based detection has increased nearly 400% in the past year, research by security firm FireEye has revealed. Companies are being hit by an average of 643 successful infections a week, according to the ...
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CoDeSys, a piece of software running on industrial control systems (ICS) from over 200 vendors contains a vulnerability that allows potential attackers to execute sensitive commands on the vulnerable devices without the need for ...
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Intrusion prevention systems -- security tools designed to stop problems even before they crop up -- have emerged as indispensable components of defense-in-depth security strategies. But a key success factor for the technology is it ...
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Sourcefire announced today it has strengthened and expanded its FirePOWER appliance family, providing users with the unmatched ability to protect against sophisticated malware, advanced persistent threats (APTs) and targeted attacks. One ...
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This in-depth research from Computer Weekly and TechTarget reveals the IT security spending priorities of businesses in the UK and Europe. Despite the downturn, 40% of organisations plan to increase their security budgets in 2013 in ...
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Many organisations continue to rely on ineffective intrusion prevention systems (IPS) for defending information systems, says security firm Stonesoft. Advanced evasion techniques (AETs) – which combine several known evasion ...
Cost pressures and the rise of cloud computing have led many businesses to turn to lower-cost virtual environments on premise and in the cloud, but a lack of expertise and experience may be exposing these organisations to unnecessary ...
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Westinghouse Electric Company and McAfee have announced a partnership around information security for nuclear power plants at McAfee Focus 2012 in Las Vegas. Westinghouse will use McAfee Enterprise Security Manager and Network Intrusion ...
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