Cyber Security Specialist
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Dan Kaplan, Executive Editor - SC Magazine
In what has become a familiar refrain, security researchers have spotted another Java zero-day vulnerability under active attack.
Network security company FireEye said the vulnerability being exploited in the wild is present in the most up-to-date versions of Java SE software: version 6 Update 41 and version 7 Update 15, researchers Darien Kindlund and Yichong Lin wrote in a blog posted Thursday. [Read More]
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From Dark Reading - By Robert Lemos, Contributing Writer, Dark Reading,
The stories behind the hacking of a startup’s CEO and a journalist, as told at the RSA Conference, provides small and midsize businesses with good tactics to secure their businesses.
SAN FRANCISCO — RSA CONFERENCE 2013 — At first, Matthew Prince and Mat Honen seem to have little in common: Prince is the founder and CEO of CloudFlare, a small business with a rapidly expanding client base. Honen is a writer for well-known news Web site. [Read More]
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Download the Security Threat Report 2013 from Sophos. Reflecting on a very busy year for cyber security, I would like to highlight some key observations for 2012. No doubt, the increasing mobility of data in corporate environments is one of the biggest
challenges we faced in the past year. Users are fully embracing the power to access data from
anywhere. The rapid adoption of bring your own device (BYOD) and cloud are really accelerating
this trend, and providing new vectors of attack [Security Threat Report 2013]
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22 February 2013
70% of those infections communicate with their C&C servers at least once every two hours, and more than half of organizations across the globe have had malware downloaded onto their networks via these bots.
This is the shocking result of an analysis by Check Point of 888 public and private organizations worldwide, drawing information from its Check Point ThreatCloud, its global network of threat sensors, and 3D Security Reports conducted at those organizations during 2012. [Read More]
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Two new documents released by the council offer guidance on merchant responsibility for cardholder data stored in the cloud, as well as data processed through mobile point-of-sale devices
By Ericka Chickowski, Contributing Writer, Dark Reading
The PCI Council recently provided merchants with more detailed guidance on two topics most commonly confusing merchants in their pursuit to protect cardholder data and comply with PCI Data Security Standards: cloud storage and mobile payments. Led by merchants, banks, and payment processors participating in the council’s community-driven special interest groups, the effort to clear up some of the confusion came to fruition with the publication of two separate documents this month. [Read More]
