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The growth of the internet has impacted profoundly on everyday life and the global economy. It has evolved into a global, interconnected network of systems and information – cyberspace – that we know today, transforming the conduct of business and opening new markets.
Threats to cyber security are persistent and constantly evolving. With an ever-growing number of cyber attacks on critical infrastructure, online commerce and the private sector worldwide, security experts are finding that their work has become a race against the attackers.
The Cyber Security Review is designed to draw on the combined knowledge, skills and expertise of the cyber security community to identify the emerging threats and facilitate the development of coherent policies and robust capabilities.
Our mission is to promote dialogue and provide a platform for information exchange and cooperation between stakeholders, industry, academia and security experts worldwide.
Latest news
- Necurs Botnet Evolves to Hide in the Shadows, with New Payloads
March 1, 2019
Necurs, the prolific and globally dispersed spam and malware distribution botnet, has been spotted using a fresh hiding technique to avoid detection while quietly adding ...
- RSA Security Conference: The race to plug a $6 trillion security hole
March 1, 2019
More than 50 thousand of the world’s top computer security professionals will be in San Francisco this week for the RSA Conference. While they talk, the ...
- Terrorists and politicians exposed by Dow Jones data leak
February 28, 2019
A Dow Jones watchlist of more than 2.4 million entities that its clients should consider ‘high-risk’ has been inadvertently leaked to the public, thanks to ...
- Bronze Union APT Updates Remote Access Trojans in Fresh Wave of Attacks
February 27, 2019
The notorious Chinese-linked threat group, dubbed Bronze Union, has been spotted in a widespread 2018 campaign updating its arsenal of cyberweapons by breathing new life ...
- Hackers target Elasticsearch clusters in fresh malware campaign
February 27, 2019
Security researchers have observed a spike in attacks from multiple threat actors targeting Elasticsearch clusters, in what is believed to be an attempt to spread ...
- Cisco Fixes Critical Flaw in Wireless VPN, Firewall Routers
February 27, 2019
Cisco is urging customers to update their wireless VPN and firewall routers, after patching a critical vulnerability that could allow unauthenticated, remote attackers to execute ...
- How to Attack and Defend a Prosthetic Arm
February 26, 2019
The IoT world has long since grown beyond the now-ubiquitous smartwatches, smartphones, smart coffee machines, cars capable of sending tweets and Facebook posts and other ...
- Hackers abuse LinkedIn DMs to plant malware
February 25, 2019
Hackers are impersonating recruitment agencies on LinkedIn in a bid to target companies with backdoor malware. Researchers at Proofpoint found that the malware campaigns primarily targeted ...
- ICANN: There is an ongoing and significant risk to DNS infrastructure
February 23, 2019
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization in charge of the internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure, has issued a foreboding ...
- Russian national, author of NeverQuest banking trojan, pleads guilty
February 23, 2019
A Russian national pleaded guilty today in a New York court of creating, running, and infecting users with the NeverQuest banking trojan –also known as ...
- Looming retirement of legacy system custodians put global IT systems at risk
February 22, 2019
Government IT systems and critical infrastructure systems around the world are at risk due to legacy technology and the pending retirement of those who have historically maintained ...
- 19-Year Old WinRAR RCE Vulnerability Gets Micropatch Which Keeps ACE Support
February 22, 2019
A micropatch was released to fix a 19-year old arbitrary code execution vulnerability impacting 500 million users of the WinRAR compression tool and to keep ACE support after the app’s ...
- Malspam campaign fakes Google reCAPTCHA images to fool victims
February 22, 2019
A recently discovered malspam campaign targeting customers of a Polish bank was found using forgeries of Google reCAPTCHA images to fake legitimacy. The banking malware was ...
- DDoS Attacks Ranked As Highest Threat by Enterprises
February 22, 2019
US and EMEA security professionals interviewed by the Neustar International Security Council (NISC) in January 2019 said that DDoS attacks are perceived as the highest threat to ...
- Ransomware encrypts Australian cardiac clinic’s patient files
February 21, 2019
Employees of Melbourne Heart Group in Malvern, Australia, have been unable to access patients’ medical records following a January ransomware attack that encrypted the health ...
- Spectre vulnerabilities cannot be mitigated by software alone
February 19, 2019
A team of Google researchers has demonstrated the Spectre vulnerabilities present in many of today’s processors cannot be completely mitigated by applying software fixes, as ...
