IT Security and Compliance Blog Archive

Read the news, developments and opinion pieces from years gone by about IT security and compliance from industry experts New Net Technologies.

Password manager LastPass announced Monday that suspicious activity was identified on its network on Friday – as a result, LastPass account email addresses, password reminders, server per user salts, and authentication hashes were compromised.

Cyber-attacks cost UK businesses over £34bn each year according to a new study from a leading economic analyst. The report also reveals that many CTOs believe the government is not doing enough to help them.

In a world of constantly emerging threats, security is a tough job: but the concepts of best practice have been devised for a reason. The challenge for organizations is to attain that balance between unworkable change control practices and an anarchic environment that provides ample opportunities to hide.

Intelligent Change Control Video

FIM change 'noise' from regular, scheduled updates and patches used to be a problem, serving to mask suspicious breach activity - not any more.

Nearly 75 percent of the respondents in RSA's inaugural Cybersecurity Poverty Index believe that their companies have significant cyber-security risk exposure.

The battle against computer spam and cyber-attacks looks set to continue against both new threats and a range of tried-and-tested methods, according to a report on the latest security activity.

Patch management - two words that are vital to cybersecurity, but that rarely generate enough attention.

CIS Benchmark for 2012R2

Good news - NNT Change Tracker Enterprise version 7 has satisfied the requirements of CIS Security Software Certification and has now been awarded CIS Security Software Certification for the following CIS Benchmarks:

Today’s latest news of the US government data breach is a prime example of why organizations must review their current, out-dated emphasis on breach prevention rather than detection.

Companies are putting their customers’ data at risk because IT teams do not have the expertise or time to deploy overly complicated IT security products, a new survey has revealed.

A British government-commissioned report carried out by PwC has found that data breaches are rolling in thick and fast for UK firms - and the costs are mounting up.

Worlds Biggest Data Breaches

A cool thing to use and admire, but based on sobering data: a graphical bubble chart representation of the world's largest reported data security breaches since 2004.

A total of 23,095 DDoS attacks were carried out on web resources located in 76 countries in the first quarter of 2015, up 15 percent from the 66 countries affected in the final quarter of last year.

Hackers have compromised over 100,000 Internal Revenue Service (IRS) taxpayers' accounts by exploiting an insecure Get Transcript application.

The average cost to UK organizations of a data breach has risen by over 7% over the past two years to reach £2.37 million, or £104 per stolen record, according to the latest Ponemon Institute figures.

Industry body the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has launched a new group dedicated to simplifying PCI DSS compliance for small businesses across the globe.

CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield is the latest medical insurer to fall victim to a cyber attack. The company has issued a statement disclosing a data breach of one of its databases, which occurred in June 2014, and affects around 1.1 million CareFirst members.

The draft new Computer Science GCSE is due to be submitted for approval to Ofqual next week, with the intention of rolling out the course to secondary schools in the UK in September 2016.

The directors of Bettys & Taylors of Harrogate have pledged to harden cyber security on the Bettys.co.uk website and keep customers informed after details of 122,000 customers were lost in a data breach.

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) recently informed patients that some of their personal information may have been compromised by a lack of cyber security controls.

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