Tag: cyber security
Hacktivists Experience Greater Success than Cybercriminals in 2011
The Annual Report Data Breach Investigations that is compiled by Verizon has revealed that hacktivists stole more data than cybercriminals in 2011. This is a significant change in recent trends as previous findings reported that cybercriminals had stolen the most data within a year. It is reported that hacktivists stole 58% of the data that was stolen during 2011. For those who are unsure of the difference between a hacktivists …
Cambridge First Year Wins GCHQ Cyber Security Challenge
Jonathan Millican from North Yorkshire has been named the UK’s Cyber Security Champion after winning a GCHQ competition which has been running for the last 6 months. The competition included a series of challenges ranging from attacks on webservers, defacement and mail spam. It was then up to contestants to make their suggestions of how they would defend against such instances. Mr Millican’s team actually finished second but as an …
Tightened Cyber Security Required for Digital Healthcare Adoption
The U.S. government is encouraging healthcare organisations to utilise electronic healthcare records. However this will mean much more is required to be spent on Cyber Security. As “no organisation can afford to ignore the potential consequences of a data breach,” according to the American National Standards Institute. Of the 100 healthcare executives surveyed 60 of them cited ‘lack of funding’ as the primary reason for not securing digital records. However …
“Porous as a Colander”
Expert Says Cyberterrorism is a Threat to U.S. Corporations and Government Agencies When you think about data backup and recovery, you probably think of natural disasters – floods, hurricanes, fires, and the like. But cybersecurity expert Richard Clarke says that the biggest threat to our sensitive information may not come from the sea or the sky. It may come from China. Or Iran, North Korea, Russia, or any other nation …
2011 Cyber Security Strategy Released
The UK government have re-evaluated their 2009 cyber security strategy and have released an up to date version. As the number of cybercrime attacks that have been reported has increased dramatically within the last decade; having an effective cyber security strategy in place has become more important. Hackers have become more sophisticated with their methods which have magnified the weaknesses in company’s cyber security infrastructure. They have successfully targeted businesses …
EU and US Cyber Security Experts Join Forces to Test Defences
EU and US cyber security officials have come together to find out how they would most appropriately co-ordinate their response to a hacking incident. This is the first time that such an event has taken place between the two governing bodies, who acted out how they would respond to two scenarios. The first scenario that was tested, involved a cyber-attack which attempted to steal secret information from the EU’s security …
Britain Beefing Up Cyber Security Measures
“Cyberspace is going to be one of the great challenges of our day” according to Iain Lobban, director of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). Lobban maintains that cyber attacks pose a serious economic threat. This has certainly rung true in the the past 12 months with a significant rise in the number of apparently government linked cyber threats coming from other countries or organised criminals. In addition attempts to steal …
