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.

New research from the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) has revealed 42% of small and micro businesses in the UK report having experienced cyber crime.

According to a recent survey, 96% of executives failed to tell the difference between a real email and a phishing email 100% of the time.

New research suggests that the rapid digitization of consumer's lives, combined with increasing cyber-crime activity, will push data breach losses up to US$ 2.1 trillion (£1.34 trillion) globally by 2019.

Research in the UK by Bedfordshire police has found that many online criminals had previous history for committing crimes in the real world including theft, burglary, shoplifting and a range of violent crimes.

Home Depot, Mandarin Oriental, and Staples have all suffered significant losses following security breaches affected their Point of Sale systems.

A survey of senior information security professionals from organizations which are members of KPMG's International Information Integrity Institute has revealed 74% of businesses have no cyber insurance.

A report by Neustar Inc. has revealed an increase in the number and size of DDoS attacks in the United States, their costly and devastating effects on brand perception, and a heightened state of preparedness for U.S. businesses.

US cosmetics retail giant Sally Beauty has admitted it may have been hit by another data breach after revealing details of a new investigation into “unusual activity involving payment cards” at some of its stores.

C-level executives need to increase literacy in cyber security and its associated risks, a study has revealed.

cyber attack collaboration

Although 2014 was marked by an increase in cyber attacks, it also saw a new level of international co-operation to combat them, according to a UK cyber security official.

More than half of CIOs in the CIO 100 said their organization had detected a cyber intrusion in the last 12 months, with a massive 95% responding security had risen up their management agenda - although not as many were seeing a corresponding increase in their budget to support this.

The protection of Critical National Infrastructure today generally relates to power stations, electric grid infrastructure, and air traffic control systems. However, as a new article in SC Magazine highlights, the advent of smart cities widens the catchment further and all the same rules apply as to any other networked computer system: any software or firmware-based control system will always have the potential to be vulnerable to a cyber attack, either through malware infection to the file system, or through hacking of configuration settings. 

Over a year on from the debacle of Target’s security breach and has anything really changed? Despite the weeks of forensic analysis and the astronomical cost incurred by the company, retailer after retailer is still falling foul of the same form of malware attack. So just what is going wrong?

A targeted attack campaign that is believed to be state sponsored and uses Adobe and Windows zero-day vulnerabilities to infect victims' systems has been uncovered by researchers at FireEye.

The cost per record of a data breach is about 58 cents per record, well below the widely accepted previous estimate of about $201 per record, according to Verizon's 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report.

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has moved to fix the security vulnerabilities in the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and early versions of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols, exposed by both Heartbleed and Poodle, with an out-of-band updated release of PCI DSS v3.1.

Institutional investors are pressing for company boards to sharpen up their cyber-security knowledge and practices, according to a new report conducted by FTI Consulting on behalf of KPMG.

Cyber-attacks on critical national infrastructure (CNI) are growing in volume and sophistication, with destructive attacks far more common than at first thought, according to a new report from Trend Micro and the Organization of American States (OAS).

In the same way that seemingly clear pond water is revealed to be teaming with life when placed under a microscope, the amount of noise created on a daily basis by critical upgrades, system patches, and required updates - once visible - can be overwhelming.

Research by USA Today reveals that the US power grid suffers some kind of physical or cyber attack every four days.

Of particular interest is the high incidence of cyberattacks, although the most recent ICS-CERT report (the Cyber Emergency Response Team covering all industries utilizing industrial control systems) suggests an even higher incidence of cyber attacks.

Contact Us

Corporate Headquarters

Netwrix
6160 Warren Parkway, Suite 100
Frisco, Texas, 75034

Phone 1: 1-949-407-5125

Phone 2: 888-638-9749 (toll-free)


[email protected]
 

United Kingdom

Netwrix
5 New Street Square
London EC4A 3TW

Phone: +44 (0) 203 588 3023


 [email protected]
SC Magazine Cybersecurity 500 CSGEA Winners 2021 CIS benchmarking SEWP Now Certified IBM Security
Copyright 2024, New Net Technologies LLC. All rights reserved. 
NNT and Change Tracker are registered trademarks of New Net Technologies LLC.
All other product, company names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.