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Investing time in ongoing website maintenance is a key way to ensure that your small business website is as protected as it can be against cyber-security threats. October 2018 is Cyber Security Awareness Month, an annual campaign which aims to Read More …
The biggest threat to your firm’s security may be lurking in your inbox. Email is a primary means for RIA communication with clients, vendors, other third parties and within a firm. As a result, most data and security breaches happen Read More …
Schools are reporting an upsurge in cyber attacks, apparently from disgruntled students who are attacking school websites rather than pressing the fire alarm to disrupt classes. Network for Learning (N4L), a Crown company that provides internet services to 98 per cent Read More …
According to Bryan Becker, an application security researcher at WhiteHat Security, the United States is “woefully behind the entire developed world in terms of cybersecurity.” Defensively, he insists, it would “easily take us a decade” and then some to catch Read More …
UNITED NATIONS – Russia has submitted to the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly a draft resolution on cybersecurity that provides for the establishment of a working group on these issues and for the elaboration of rules of Read More …
An Indian security researcher has discovered a highly critical flaw in X.Org Server package that impacts OpenBSD and most Linux distributions, including Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, and Fedora. Xorg X server is a popular open-source implementation of the X11 system (display Read More …
In July 2018, US-CERT raised an alert regarding the Emotet banking trojan, which is also being used to distribute a secondary malware known as “Trickbot”. This alert provided recommendations on how businesses can mitigate their exposure to the Trojan. Unfortunately, it Read More …
While remote code execution vulnerabilities are pretty common, a new one discovered in Cisco’s WebEx online and video collaboration software is definitely different. That is because users can remotely execute commands through a component of the WebEx client even when WebEx Read More …
Cathay Pacific has been hit by a data breach affecting 9.4 million passengers of Cathay and Hong Kong Dragon Airlines, a serious exposure that shows—not for the first time—that the focus of airline security can’t be limited to airport terminals and Read More …
Superfast 5G mobile broadband could power smart cities and the internet of things, (IoT) but as more devices get connected, telecoms and security experts are warning that cyber-attacks could increase in number and severity. Our homes and cities are getting Read More …
