CyberSecurity Institute

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: IT managers could be swayed to turn to hacking for as little as a couple thousand dollars, according new research from Centrify. According to the findings, 24% of…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: One-Third of DDoS Attacks Accompanied By Network Breach According to respondents in a survey by Kaspersky Lab, 32% of serious DDoS attacks coincided with a network intrusion. Although…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: Spotlight on the i2 Summit for a Safer Planet The IBM i2 Summit for a Safer Planet brought personnel in law enforcement, emergency management, defense/national security, cyber threat…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: Most DDoS attacks hiding something more sinister, Neustar warns Most distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks now appear to be aimed at distracting IT and security teams, a…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: IBM: CoreBot now ready for front line use as banking Trojan CoreBot is now armed with 55 URL triggers that cause it to attack the online banking sites….

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: UK tops global cyber crime hit list UK is the top target for cyber criminals with UK businesses targeted more frequently than US counterparts, a study has revealed….