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Category: News January 2017

Police Arrested Suspected Hacker Who Hacked the ‘Hacking Team’

Posted onJanuary 31, 2017March 17, 2017

In 2015, a hacker named Phineas Fisher hacked Hacking Team – the Italy-based spyware company that sells spying software to law enforcement agencies worldwide – and exposed some 500 gigabytes of internal data for anyone to download. Now, the Spanish Read More …

CategoriesNews January 2017, Front pageTagsCyber Attack, Hacking

Why Cybersecurity Should Be The CFO’s Job

Posted onJanuary 31, 2017March 17, 2017

Cyber risk is a 21st century business reality and something that can’t be ignored. The sheer pervasiveness of these risks, matched with the evolution into far more complex attacks, means the C-Suite has to get serious about managing cybersecurity. I Read More …

CategoriesNews January 2017TagsCyber Risk, Data Breach

Ransomware Took Down Washington DC CCTV Days Before Trump’s Inauguration

Posted onJanuary 30, 2017March 18, 2017

Just days before the inauguration of President Trump, the storage devices recording data from the D.C. Police surveillance cameras were infected by hackers. According to the Washington Post, some 70 percent of the abovementioned storage devices had been infected, which Read More …

CategoriesNews January 2017, Front pageTagsData Security, Ransomware

UK Cybersecurity: Permanent job salaries growing faster than contractor pay rises

Posted onJanuary 30, 2017March 17, 2017

Demand for cyber security skills in the UK means that salaries for full time IT security jobs are increasing faster than contractor rates, according to a new survey. Annual IT security permanent salaries climbed by 5 per cent (from Q4 Read More …

CategoriesNews January 2017, Front pageTagsCyber Security Jobs

Dridex Is Back, Uses New Windows UAC Bypass Method

Posted onJanuary 30, 2017March 17, 2017

Banking malware Dridex is back and it’s worse, targeting British financial institutions with a new technique that has the capability of bypassing Windows User Account Control. Researchers at security firm Flashpoint detected small phishing and spear-phishing campaigns targeting specific recipients. Read More …

CategoriesNews January 2017TagsBanking and Finance, Malware

Europol and Global Cyber Alliance team up to fight cyber-crime

Posted onJanuary 30, 2017July 14, 2018

Europol and the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate on decreasing systemic cyber-risk and improving internet security throughout Europe and beyond. As part of the MoU, Europol and GCA will fight cyber-crime through Read More …

CategoriesNews January 2017TagsCyber Risk, Cybercrime, Intergovernmental

Trump expected to sign cyber security executive order Tuesday

Posted onJanuary 30, 2017March 17, 2017

January 30, 2017 President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on cyber security on Tuesday, two sources familiar with the situation said, marking the first action to address what he has called a top priority of his Read More …

CategoriesNews January 2017TagsGovernment, Law Enforcement

UK spy agency hires Indian startup for cybersecurity programme

Posted onJanuary 27, 2017March 17, 2017

The next time a hacker tries to break into a British bank, chances are that technology from a small Indian startup will detect the hack. Earlier this month, Britain’s top communications spy agency GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters), which had cracked Read More …

CategoriesNews January 2017TagsBanking and Finance, Hacking

Second FSB Agent Arrested for Treason Revealed as Notorious Hacker

Posted onJanuary 27, 2017March 17, 2017

Major Dmitry Dokuchaev, one of four cyber-security experts arrested by the Kremlin on charges of treason, has allegedly been revealed as an infamous Russian hacker. Dokuchaev worked as a hacker under the alias “Forb” until Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) Read More …

CategoriesNews January 2017, Front pageTagsCyber Espionage, Hacking

How CXOs should plan their approach to IoT

Posted onJanuary 27, 2017December 23, 2020

Just as it was with virtualization and cloud computing, moving into an Internet of Things (IoT) project can unleash a barrage of questions aimed at C-level executives from their board members. These questions usually center around what the company is Read More …

CategoriesNews January 2017, Front pageTagsC-Suite, CXO, Internet of Things - IoT

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