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Islamic group expands targets in bank DDoS attacks
The hacktivist group, which has been hammering U.S. banks since late last year, has now expanded attacks to other financial services companies
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DDoS attack against Spamhaus was reportedly the largest in history
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack of unprecedented scale that targeted an international spam-fighting organisation last week ended up causing problems for Internet users around the world, experts say.
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Rising cyberthreats set backdrop for latest cybersecurity bill
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano urges Congress to pass the new legislation, saying it should not wait for a '9/11 in the cyber world'
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Internet survives Royal Wedding, scammers still lurking
The royal wedding went off without a hitch Friday morning, and the Internet appeared to survive the event as well. Web traffic was high during the nuptials, but YouTube was able to stream the event live to millions around the world without choking (much). Twitter's fail whale managed to stay off the royal guest list, but online scammers are just getting started with their royal wedding scams and shenanigans. Here's a breakdown of the online highs and lows during Prince William's marriage to Catherine Middleton on Friday.
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Australian Information Security Association issues blunt warning as National Cyber Security Awareness Week begins
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Bank trojan targets users of Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox
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Security a key factor in LogMeIn’s Internet of Things platform
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Big Data Investigations: Opportunity and Risk
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The week in security: Aussie banks targeted as mobiles drive privacy fears
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Lan 1 meets demand for cloud security with Authentication-as-a-Service
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Splunk Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM
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Dell Sets Sights on Cisco, Announces Game-Changing NSA Series That Introduces Powerful Next-Gen Firewall Advances for Mid-sized Businesses and Distributed Enterprises
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Silver Peak saves Riverbed customers up to 86 per cent with software upgrade program
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Ovum analysis ranks Orange Business Services ahead of APAC competition for service capability and strategy
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Incident handling is a vast topic, but here are a few tips for you to consider in your incident response. I hope you never have to use them, but the odds are at some point you will and I hope being ready saves you pain (or your job!).
- Have an incident response plan.
- Pre-define your incident response team
- Define your approach: watch and learn or contain and recover.
- Pre-distribute call cards.
- Forensic and incident response data capture.
- Get your users on-side.
- Know how to report crimes and engage law enforcement.
- Practice makes perfect.
Warning: Tips for secure mobile holiday shopping
I’m dating myself, but I remember when holiday shopping involved pouring through ads in the Sunday paper, placing actual phone calls from tethered land lines to research product stock and availability, and actually driving places to pick things up. Now, holiday shoppers can do all of that from a smartphone or tablet in a few seconds, but there are some security pitfalls to be aware of.
