Spammers adapt and embrace popular themes
According to Kaspersky Lab, the percentage of spam in email traffic in June was up 1.4 percentage points and averaged at 71.1 per cent. Malicious attachments were found in 1.8 …
Free tool identifies risks in secure shell environments
SSH Communications Security, known the world over as the inventor of the ubiquitous Secure Shell and SFTP protocols, today announced the general availability of SSH Risk …
Qualys announces WAF Beta for Amazon EC2
Qualys will release the beta of its new cloud WAF solution as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and as a VMware virtual image for on-premise deployments starting August 1. …
Umbrella by OpenDNS Service blocks advanced cyber attacks
The new release of the OpenDNS Umbrella Web security platform has been enhanced with predictive detection capabilities provided by the Umbrella Security Graph. It can …
AWS cloud management APIs: Don’t overlook a key security component
Xceedium has enhanced Xsuite to include protection for the Amazon Web Services management APIs that advanced cloud customers use to monitor and configure their AWS …
DDoS attack size growing dramatically
Arbor Networks released data on DDoS attack trends for the first half of 2013. The data shows that DDoS continues to be a global threat, with a clear increase in attack size, …
Microsoft announces MAPP overhaul
Introduced in 2008, the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) was created to give antivirus vendors a head start against malware developers. Vendors would get …
Study on private vs public sector software glitches
In the private sector, software errors are causing both financial and reputational damage. A new study identified private sector businesses in the banking, retail and mobile …
Syrian hackers target White House staffers, Reuters
The Syrian Electronic Army has been busy over the last few days, and has managed both to hijack the official Reuters Twitter account and to compromise personal email accounts …
Security complexity and internal breaches are key concerns
Growth in external hacking attempts, DDoS and malware attacks, and internal threats to data are the key security concerns for UK businesses. 64% of respondents to a Check …
FTC crackdown on “free gift card” scammers
The FTC has moved to shut down an international network of scammers that sent millions of unwanted text messages to consumers, using the lure of “free” gift cards …
Sharp increase in blended, automated attacks
FireHost announced its latest web application attack statistics, which track the prevalence of four distinct types of cyberattacks that pose the most serious threat to …
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