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Security Holes In Machine Learning And AI

July 9, 2018 - admin - 0 Comment

A primary goal of machine learning is to use machines to train other machines. But what happens if there’s malware or other flaws in the training data? Machine learning and AI developers are starting to examine the integrity of training data, which in some cases will be used to train millions or even billions of devices. But this is the…

Cloud Security For The Healthcare Industry: A No-Brainer

July 5, 2018 - admin - 0 Comment

The healthcare industry has become one of the likeliest to suffer cyber-attacks, and there’s little wonder why. Having the financial and personal information of scores of patients makes it a very appetizing target for attackers. Just over a year ago, the WannaCry ransomware attack wreaked havoc on the UK National Health Service (NHS), ultimately disrupting a third of its facilities and…

Concern Mounts for SS7, Diameter Vulnerability

July 4, 2018 - admin - 0 Comment

The same security flaws that cursed the older SS7 standard and were used with 3G, 2G and earlier are prevalent in the Diameter protocol used with today’s 4G (LTE) telephony and data transfer standard, according to researchers at Positive Technologies and the European Union Agency For Network and Information Security (ENISA). Network security is built on trust between operators and IPX…

GDPR: A tool for your enemies?

July 3, 2018 - admin - 0 Comment

Every employee at your organisation should be prepared to deal with right to be forgotten requests. It’s estimated that 75% of employees will exercise their right to erasure now GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) has come into effect. However, less than half of organisations believe that they would be able to handle a ‘right to be forgotten’ (RTBF) request without…

Botnets Evolving to Mobile Devices

June 29, 2018 - admin - 0 Comment

Millions of mobile devices are now making requests in what’s described as “an attack on the economy.” Botnets have tended to hide in the nooks and crevices of servers and endpoint devices. Now a growing number are hiding in the palms of users’ hands. That’s one of the conclusions of a new report detailing the evolving state of malicious bots….

ProtonMail DDoS Attacks Are a Case Study of What Happens When You Mock Attackers

June 28, 2018 - admin - 0 Comment

For the past two days, secure email provider ProtonMail has been fighting off DDoS attacks that have visibly affected the company’s services, causing short but frequent outages at regular intervals. “The attacks went on for several hours, although the outages were far more brief, usually several minutes at a time with the longest outage on the order of 10 minutes,”…

Small businesses aren’t properly prepared for cyberattacks

June 28, 2018 - admin - 0 Comment

Even though businesses all over the world are increasingly taking online protection seriously – they still aren’t 100 per cent confident they could tackle serious cybersecurity threats. Polling 600 businesses in the US, UK and Australia, a study by Webroot found that new types of attacks are dominating in 2018 (compared to the year before) but that the cost of…

Protonmail Hit By Yet Another DDoS Attack

June 28, 2018 - admin - 0 Comment

Attack comes as scale, scope and sophistication of DDoS attacks rises sharply Popular encrypted email provider Protonmail was this morning hit by the latest in a long-running serious of malicious attacks on its infrastructure. The privacy-focussed Geneva-based email provider, which has some 500,000 users, has faced numerous DDoS attacks since being founded. As one of the only email providers which…

How to Prevent DDoS Attacks: 6 Tips to Keep Your Website Safe

June 27, 2018 - admin - 0 Comment

Falling victim to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack can be catastrophic: The average cost to an organization of a successful DDoS attack is about $100,000 for every hour the attack lasts, according to security company Cloudflare. There are longer term costs too: loss of reputation, brand degradation and lost customers, all leading to lost business. That’s why it…

Cyber security incidents could cost Aussie businesses $29B per year

June 26, 2018 - admin - 0 Comment

Fear and doubt of cyber risks has led 66 per cent of Australian businesses to put off digital transformation plans, with security incidents potentially costing organisations $29 billion per year. In research conducted by Frost & Sullivan and commissioned by Microsoft, local security incidents include losses in revenue, decreased profitability, fines, lawsuits and remediation. “The fact that two-thirds of Australian organisations are…

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