London economy hit hard by security breaches
A new report by the Conservative members on the London Assembly, which help scrutinise the work of the Mayor of London, estimates that in 2015 in London 329,515 organizations …
It pays to be a penetration tester, the market is booming!
The penetration testing market is estimated to grow from $594.7 million in 2016 to $1,724.3 million by 2021, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 23.7%, according to …
Law enforcement equipment: Technology plays a complicated role
Law enforcement is challenged by the need for a balance between equipping officers with gear that will protect them while also trying to manage the appearance of acts of …
60+ million Dropbox login credentials have been stolen
A breach disclosed by Dropbox in 2012 has resulted in the theft of usernames and hashed and salted passwords of over 60 million users. At the time, the company did not give …
OneLogin breached, customers’ Secure Notes compromised
San Francisco-based OneLogin, which offers single sign-on and identity management for cloud-based applications and claims 1400+ enterprise customers in 44 countries, has …
What differentiates a great CIO from simply a good one?
Earlier this month, Sophos announced the appointment of Tony Young as the company’s new global Chief Information Officer (CIO). Young started his career as a software …
Definitive EU net neutrality guidelines released
The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) has published the final guidelines aimed at helping EU member states’ National Regulatory …
Google Chrome impersonator Trojan doing rounds
If you’re a Google Chrome user, and suddenly your browser looks a bit off and shows you pages that you would never visit ordinarily, you’ve probably been hit with …
SimpleRisk: Enterprise risk management simplified
In this podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2016, Josh Sokol, creator of SimpleRisk, talks about his risk management tool, which he presented at the Black Hat Arsenal. Written …
L0phtCrack 7 audits passwords up to 500 times faster
L0pht Holdings released a completely revamped L0phtCrack 7, which includes a new cracking engine which takes optimal advantage of multi-core CPUs and multi-core GPUs. A 4-core …
Ubiquity and danger: The web scraping economy
Web scraping is a technique of extracting information from web sites, and often includes transforming unstructured web site data into a database for analysis or repurposing …
Linux servers hit with FairWare ransomware – or is it just a scam?
Users posting on Bleeping Computer’s forums have alerted the world to a new threat targeting Linux server admins: the FairWare ransomware. Whether the ransomware …
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