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: Security spending will reach $75.4b worldwide: Gartner Worldwide security spending will reach $75.4 billion this year, a 4.7 percent increase over last year, according to the latest forecast…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: Who you gonna call? Ghost Push Android virus infects 600,000 people a day Researchers at Cheetah Mobile’s CM Security Research Lab have discovered that the source of these…

[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…