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: Administrators Continue to Fail in Securing Databases by Using Proper Configs Security experts at BinaryEdge have analyzed how developers and system administrators configured different technologies and have found…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] This is one of 5 Newsalerts I generate 5 days a week. If you want to subscribe to the one that highlights security vendor specific news, click this link: http://paulgdavis.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=45bf3caf699abf9904ddc00e3&id=f93b0ce95b&e=20056c7556 And please share these newsalerts with others. I…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: Hacking-enabled insider trading underlines need for cyber legislation Initial reports indicated that only nine suspects were to be charged by US authorities in Brooklyn, New York and New…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: Website Hacking has increased 180 percent according to Google Google has detected a 180 percent increase in the number of websites being hacked. That is a serious rise…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: Sandboxing vs. heuristic-based scanning: a malware detection 101 The threat landscape is challenging for signature-based detection with an ever-increasing number of threats and the shortened duration time for…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: Defending Industrial Ethernet Switches Is Not Easy, But Doable BLACK HAT USA — Las Vegas — A team of researchers who found a slew of vulnerabilities across five…