For Infosecurity Europe 2016, High-Tech Bridge has released a comprehensive overview of trends across all major fields of web security. The trends include all types of security and privacy issues, from web application vulnerabilities to HTTPS traffic encryption and PCI DSS compliance. Over 1,000 people per day use High-Tech Bridge’s free web security services: SSL/TLS …
Lack of trust by African citizens and businesses on their governments creates a big chance for cyber criminals to capitalize on the gap. In the fight for safe internet, the citizens would rather take their chances with the consequences of cybercrime than share personal information with their governments. Analysts at the just concluded World Economic …
NTIA’s analysis of recent data shows that Americans are increasingly concerned about online security and privacy at a time when data breaches, cybersecurity incidents, and controversies over the privacy of online services have become more prominent. These concerns are prompting some Americans to limit their online activity, according to data collected for NTIA in July …
Krebbs quotes a RiskAnalytics official estimates there are over 2,000 infected endpoints, mostly in Europe, behind the botnet. It feels, he said, “like a black market version of Amazon Web Services.” That official says the malware that runs the botnet assigns infected hosts different roles — for example, more powerful systems might be used as …
The the US government through the assistant commerce secretary Larry Strickling and state department ambassador Daniel Sepulveda have warned that Chinese government could fragment the internet if it pursues new registration rules for online addresses. The warning is in response to a decision by the Chinese government in late March to require all domain names …
At least 42,000 Irish e-mails with “.ie” domains are included in a massive data breach that has seen both logins and passwords traded amongst criminals in Russia. The accounts are part of an enormous hack that includes the credentials of 272.3 million email accounts across the world. The breach was uncovered by …
On 28 April 2016 Europol’s Cybercrime Centre (EC3) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the online security company F-Secure Corporation at Europol’s headquarters in The Hague. F-Secure has 20 country offices and a presence in more than 100 countries, with Security Lab operations in Helsinki, Finland and in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Through more than …
Symantec, a computer security, antivirus, backup and SSL provider, wrote an article about the effect that new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) will have on SSL certificates. There are already many new gTLDs that have been released by ICANN and there will be potentially over a thousand new gTLDs available in the next couple of …
A new global survey by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and conducted by global research company Ipsos records that consumers are increasingly worried about their online privacy and security, especially when it comes to how their personal data is handled by private corporations and governments. The survey across 24 countries finds that a …
Reuters: Bill Gates said on Monday that no one was an “absolutist” on either side of the digital privacy debate, but the co-founder of Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said he supports his company’s lawsuit against the U.S. government seeking the freedom to tell customers when federal agencies have sought their data. “There probably are some cases …