No harm done despite cyber attack on UK Anti-Doping

No harm done despite cyber attack on UK Anti-Doping

Representational Image UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) reassured athletes on Monday that no personal data had been stolen after it was subject to a hacking attack over the weekend. Suspicion for the attack is likely to fall on Russia-based Fancy Bears after their successful hacking previously of a number of sports bodies, including the World Anti-Doping Agency […]

How to protect your event from cyber-threat

How to protect your event from cyber-threat

With the pervasiveness of internet usage globally, securing your business from cyber-threats and attacks is becoming an important aspect of every business. The greatest challenge in the sphere of cybersecurity is the identification of the cyber threat and their attribution. In the event industry, the performance optimization and improving the overall experience of the attendees […]

Penetration Testing phases and tools

Penetration Testing phases and tools

What is penetration testing? In this article we are going to breakdown the basics of penetration testing. People who are new to information security and want to learn more about it have a lot of questions about penetration testing. Penetration testing also known as pen testing is the process of testing the security weakness of […]

British Cyber Security Sector Cautions Users Against Illicit Cryptocurrency Mining

British Cyber Security Sector Cautions Users Against Illicit Cryptocurrency Mining

https://www.cisomag.com/ The exponential rise of cryptojacking incidents have been raising concerns among authorities in the last several months, prompting a British government agency to issue a warning on April 11 against cases of computer hijacking to illicitly mine cryptocurrencies. As the Government Communications Headquarters’ technology sector, the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) posited, cryptojacking may […]

Top 7 Cyber-Security Predictions for 2017 and Beyond

Top 7 Cyber-Security Predictions for 2017 and Beyond

This guest column is authored by Kanishk Tagade, Security Researcher and Digital Strategist, HaltDos The rate of cyber attacks is never stopping! 2016 proved to be another year of devastating cyber-security breaches and other cyber-security incidents spanning across multiple industries including SMEs and large-size enterprises from all over the world. There have been many sobering moments throughout the […]

NSA: Nation State Cyber Attack Included Virtual ‘Hand-to-Hand Combat’

NSA: Nation State Cyber Attack Included Virtual ‘Hand-to-Hand Combat’

Richard Ledgett / Getty Images Foreign government hackers caught secretly breaking into a U.S. national security network waged a 24-hour battle with cyber security officials trying to counter the cyber attack, the deputy director of the National Security Agency said Tuesday. Richard Ledgett, a veteran cyber spy who will retire soon as NSA’s No. 2 […]

Cyber attack cripples Ukraine, shuts down govt network, hits Russia too

Cyber attack cripples Ukraine, shuts down govt network, hits Russia too

Ukrainian deputy Prime Minister Pavlo Rozenko said on Tuesday that the government’s computer network was down, and posted a picture on Twitter of a computer screen showing an error message. Dispatchers inside the control room of Ukraine’s National power company in Kiev.(Reuters File Photo) A number of Ukrainian banks and companies, including the state power […]

Cyber Attack News – Mexican Banks Hacked

Cyber Attack News – Mexican Banks Hacked

The ISBuzz Post: This Post Cyber Attack News – Mexican Banks Hacked appeared first on Information Security Buzz. News broke this week that following a cyberattack, hackers were able to siphon hundreds of millions of pesos (about $15.4 million) from a number of Mexican banks, including No. 2 Banorte and others that are yet to be […]

Eide Bailly Gets Aggressive with Cyber Security Solutions Through New Relationship with Secuvant

Eide Bailly Gets Aggressive with Cyber Security Solutions Through New Relationship with Secuvant

Salt Lake City and Denver—Eide Bailly, LLP announced Monday that it has entered into a formal relationship with Secuvant, LLC to supplement Eide Bailly’s current cyber security solutions. Through Eide Bailly with Secuvant, CXOs now have cyber security programs that speak to them as executives about how business-class cyber security solutions protect their true business […]

Don’t Get Speared by a Cyber Attack

Don’t Get Speared by a Cyber Attack

Last year was the first year I taught the course Cyber Security for You and Your Clients at Scaling New Heights.  I will be teaching an updated version of this course at  this June in Atlanta.  This article is a primer to the conference looking at a very small portion of the content in order […]