Tag: Data Security
Rise of the Data Crime Bot
Automated cyber attacks are becoming increasingly prominent according to a new report conducted by Imperva. The Web Application Attack Report (WAAR) studied attacks on 30 different enterprise and government web applications highlighting that assaults on websites and databases are now as frequent as 25,000 per hour. The sheer volume of these attacks is worrying. However perhaps more concerning is the fact that most of them are conducted by automated bots. This …
Cyber Security – The No.1 Priority
According to PwC’s Private Company Trendsetter Barometer security is currently the number one IT priority. Cloud Computing was ranked in fifth place on the list of “areas of likely IT investment” with areas such as “next generation data management & analysis,” “enterprise mobility” and “social media/networking” ranking ahead. An obvious link exists here with many still holding huge reservations with regards to trusting external providers. “There still exists a level …
U S Patriot Act Dampens Microsoft Cloud Services
Organisations should be wary when entrusting their data to Cloud providers based in the U.S. Microsoft, one of the first Cloud providers to come clean, have revealed that the U.S. authorities have the right to access any data stored by them, even if that data resides within the EU. This isn’t the first time that the U.S. Patriot Act has come under fire. After the Act was passed 2001 because …
Lulzsec Target Brazilian Government
Two of the official Brazilian government websites were brought down during the early hours of Wednesday morning. The sites are the official web pages of the Brazilian government and the scam is the equivalent of bringing down the Downing Street site. The sites were inaccessible this morning after LulzSec had flooded the site. Users simply received an error message stating that the site had suffered a timeout. The Brazilian government …
Banks Forced to come Clean
New legislation brought in by the European commission is going to force banks to come clean when they have any form of data loss or loose any data which compromises their customer base. This was the message delivered in a speech made by Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European commission. Many believe this has come as a direct result of the rare admission by Citi bank last week that they …
Sony Hack
Sony has undergone a second hack just two weeks after the initial attack took place, meaning another 25million accounts may have been compromised on top of the original 77million. This second wave of attacks comes just days after the top Sony directors made a traditional Japanese apology in a board meeting. “We deeply apologise for the inconvenience we have caused,” said Kazup Hirai (one of the executives which took a …
$200,000 Attack on Gucci
Gucci recently came under attack from a disgruntled employee who was laid off earlier in the year. A former network engineer Sam Chihlung Yin, 34 has been accused of illegally accessing Gucci’s servers and deleting a whole host of data. The attack comprised of shutting down servers, deleting data, as well as preventing employees from all over the country from sending and receiving emails. The American fashion giant was attacked …
Data Security
Complete data privacy is becoming more and more accepted as a myth. IT leaders are realising that there is no such thing as completely watertight IT security, and the traditional ‘fortress’ mentality is beginning to come loose. Traditionally the widespread notion has been that data is either fully secure or in full breach. The more realistic approach is to prepare for cyber attack more diligently. In order to remain competitive …
Security risks plague UK schools, experts claim
Research suggests that thousands of schools in the UK could be at risk from exploitation by hackers, potentially leading to damaging data loss and a loss of public trust. A study by NGS Secure took place in a pair of schools, one dealing with secondary students and the other with younger primary pupils, in order to determine the levels of data protection and IT security in place at each establishment. …
Value of data unrecognised by many, study finds
Research suggests that most employees are not aware of the intrinsic value of data and, as such, focus more on lessening the chances of damaging mobile devices and portable storage, rather than actively minimising the threat of loss or theft. There is clearly a confusion among most employees as 58 per cent of respondents to a recent study conducted by BlockMaster, said that they thought damaging a laptop to the …
