By SeanLawson No natural disaster in the last several years has passed without a government official or civilian “expert” using it to raise fears of cyber threats. That is why, after a series of snarky tweets over the last couple days by Rob Rosenberger, I was inspired to create a Google alert f...
By RyanKamauff The Cloud & Virtualization Conference will provide a forum for showcasing best practices in securely migrating to next-generation computing platforms and developing cloud infrastructures. The Cybersecurity Conference focuses on the essential defensive security solutions from both ...
“A Trojan heist on 30 US financial institutions that saw cyber criminals make off with US$5m is a warning shot for Irish banks to be on the look-out for sophisticated threats.” Source: Banks warned of Trojan spree as cyber criminals get away with US$5m heist – Ireland’s CIO and s...
“Recent FBI reporting indicates a new trend in which cyber criminal actors are using spam and phishing e-mails, keystroke loggers, and Remote Access Trojans (RAT) to compromise financial institution networks and obtain employee login credentials. The stolen credentials were used to initiate un...
“Worldwide spending on security is expected to touch the $60 billion mark in 2012, up 8.4 percent from $55 billion in the previous year, according to research company Gartner – this figure will approach $86 billion in 2016. ‘The security infrastructure market is expected to experie...
“China’s concerns over the safety of its power infrastructure will result in astronomical security spending over the next decade, states the latest report by international business analysts GlobalData. The new paper* says that China’s cyber security market will expand remarkably in...
“The anti-cashists are right about one thing. A briefcase full of paper cash is a dirty, inefficient way to move money around. Upon hearing the news that a hacker had seized presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s prior year tax returns and was asking for $1,000,000 to destroy them, you could be ...
“The fourth largest BitCoin (BTC) exchange market BitFloor has temporarily ceased trading and shut down, following an attack that has seen over US$250,000 stolen from the pool of coins that the organisation uses to execute trades.” Source: BitFloor exchange robbed of US$250,000, all trad...