LATEST HEADLINES
Facepunch 2016 breach exposed 343,000 users
HaveIbeenpwned is telling its readers who might have an account with Facepunch that the game studio suffered a breach two years ago exposing their information.
Twitter releases 10M tweets, reveals decade of foreign influence, including Russia's efforts during 2016 election
A dataset of more than 10 million Tweets released by Twitter Wednesday included a detailed picture of Russia's attempt to influence voters away from Hillary Clinton and, eventually, toward Donald Trump.
Statistics show a sharp fall in computer crime in the UK
Computer crime has fallen by 30 percent in the past year, according to latest data from the Office for National Statistics.
Like it or not, business must swallow TLS deprecation medicine
In coordinated statements, the big four in the browser application world have finally announced the deprecation of Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol v1.0 and v1.1.
OPINION
Photons and fibre: The next generation of secure communication has arrived
Photons, the building blocks of light, can be encoded with information and transported via fibre, offering a quantum leap in levels of security in data communication. Chinese lead with deployments in place.
Road to recovery - top 5 immediate actions after a security breach
You should have a data breach procedure in place on which all your of staff are trained, up to date cyber-security on your systems and recurrent revision of any GDPR policies and compliance procedures.
Managing database security in the era of cloud and automation
Database automation doesn't simply solve cyber-security; you need to evaluate the completeness of the Cloud offering you are moving to; CSPs limit liability; different clouds used must be able to share data.
IT executives should rethink mainframe security due to its false sense of security
Organisations have lost 23 percent of their skilled mainframe workers in the past five years, reducing security; re-hosting mainframes is a viable option that could take their security to the next level
FEATURE
Open and misconfigured servers in the cloud pervasive across all platforms
The persistence of open buckets is greater than reported. "The problem is systemic, not for just large organisations. If the big guys do it, what's happening with smaller organisations? The exact same thing!"
Cyber-threats - a quick reference table to explain and prioritise threats
Scores out of 100 are given to a range of threats covering devastation, likelihood, nuisance factor, financial impact and defendability, presented in an accessible format - a pack of Trumps playing cards.
Book review "How to Steal a Million, The memoirs of a Russian Hacker, by Sergey Pavlovich
What can we learn from reading about the exploits of a successful Russian cyber-criminal, and are there lessons we can implement?
"We're building systems that are beyond our intellectual means to control"
New forms of algorithm can rewrite bits of their own code, making their inner workings unknowable to their human creators, hence new controls need to be created now, before mass-deployment of 'genetic AI.'
VIDEOS
Barry Scott, CTO, EMEA, Centrify discusses the security vulnerabilities that young people bring to business.
Daniel Solis, CEO and founder at Blueliv, and Patryk Pilat, discuss recent research on credential theft.
[Video] Apricorn: EU GDPR - So What Do We Do Now?
Tony Morbin, Editor-in-Chief of SC Media UK interviews Jon Fielding, managing director, Apricorn, EMEA about new research from Apricorn highlighting exactly how massively ill-prepared companies are for last month’s deadline for enforcement of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules.
NTT Security Global Threat Intelligence Report 2018 Highlights
NTT Security released their annual Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR) for 2018, it stated that ransomware is up 350 percent from 2017 and spyware ranks first in volume of malware at 26 percent reflecting attackers' desire for long-term presence for information.
NTT Security Global Threat Intelligence Report 2018 Full
NTT Security released their annual Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR) for 2018, it stated that ransomware is up 350 percent from 2017 and spyware ranks first in volume of malware at 26 percent reflecting attackers' desire for long-term presence for information.
SC Media UK roundtable with Logpoint
Discussing 'the true value of actionable intelligence', SC Media UK's latest roundtable with Logpoint saw a gathering of senior cyber-security practitioners to discuss actionable threat intelligence. Eleven distinguished guests engaged in discussion on the topic at the event, sponsored by LogPoint at the Duck & Waffle restaurant in London's Heron Tower; the session was moderated by SC's editor-in-chief Tony Morbin.
Upcoming Events
Webcast: Threat intelligence – What does a lean enterprise need to know around CTI?
Every vendor is pushing a threat intelligence feed, program, and/or product. How does a lean organisation separate the hype from the actual value?
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Webcast: Phishing, a phact of life - how to minimise its impact
Phishing has been around almost as long as the internet, but its still going strong and getting more sophisticated. Why? Because it works.
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