UK Police force are learning how to hack

Thousands of police officers are receiving specialist cybersecurity training. In response to the unprecedented rise in cybercrime, 80 per cent of police forces across the UK are training their officers to become specialist cyber security investigators. This is the future of policing A cybercrime scene cannot be approached in the same way as a traditional …

China’s new cybersec. law rattles tech giants

China’s new cybersecurity law takes effect today, and experts are rattled about what it all means. The law has been largely touted by Beijing as a milestone in data privacy regulations, but critics say authorities haven’t provided enough information about how the wide-reaching law will be implemented. That’s a big concern, as failure to comply …

Report Urges Security providers to consider offering DDoS protection as a service

A new report by Corero Network Security suggests that offering DDoS protection as a service is a viable business idea. Out of its respondents, 82 percent see a “clear business opportunity” in providing DDoS protection as a service to its customers. Also, 93 percent see providing DDoS mitigation in relation to other types of security …

Google’s new cloud-based service shows increasing need of IoTs

Google has launched a new cloud-based service called IoT Core that enables its enterprise customers to manage their IoT devices, as well as collect and analyze the data those devices produce. IoT Core has access to all its data processing, analytics, and machine learning capabilities of Google’s cloud and supports devices equipped with Intel, ARM, …

WannaCry ransomware affects over 150 countries, Africa least hit

On Friday 12th May, organizations across the world were hit by a massive ransomware attack, named WannaCry, which exploited a (now patched) Microsoft Windows vulnerability revealed in the Shadowbrokers dump on April 14. This latest variant of ransomware  according to Avast Security data,  is mainly being targeted to Russia, Ukraine and Taiwan, but the ransomware …

Symantec’s annual Internet Security Threat Report Details a Scary 2017

Symantec’s 2017 Internet Security Threat Report reads more like a catalog of horrors for CIS and their staffs, with cyber spies and criminals running amuck everywhere. In 2016 as internet security threats mushroomed, cyber criminals and state-sponsored saboteurs pursued aggressive capers that included multi-million dollar virtual bank heists, some of the biggest distributed denial of …

New IoT Botnet DDoSes Russian Bank

A brand new botnet has emerged and was spotted on April 16th, yet details have only been made public earlier today. It appears the person behind this new threat scanned for vulnerable IOT devices on port 81. When this unusual amount of port 81 traffic was first discovered, security researchers were a bit unsure as …

Cyber Breaches on the Financial sector skyrocketed in 2016

More than 200 million financial services records were breached in 2016, representing a 937% percent increase over the previous year, according to data from IBM. The monetary gains associated with corporate and customer data available throughout the financial sector proved appetising to cybercriminals in a year which saw hackers switch their focus away from the …