Credit to Author: Jenny Erie| Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 17:00:04 +0000
This last October we saw more countries than ever participate in initiatives to raise cybersecurity awareness. What was once largely a US approach has evolved into events and initiatives around the world by governments, civil society groups, and private sector partners. This increased breadth and depth of activity reflects governments increased understanding of the importance
Credit to Author: Shriram Munde| Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 17:05:19 +0000
Quick Heal Security Labs has come across a new ransomware called ‘Saturn’ currently doing the rounds which upon encryption appends “. Saturn” extension to the encrypted files. Behaviour of Saturn Ransomware Upon arrival on the host machine, Saturn ransomware checks whether it is a virtual environment or has any debuggers….
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 14:44:49 +0000
Identity thieves who specialize in tax refund fraud have been busy of late hacking online accounts at multiple tax preparation firms, using them to file phony refund requests. Once the Internal Revenue Service processes the return and deposits money into bank accounts of the hacked firms’ clients, the crooks contact those clients posing as a collection agency and demand that the money be “returned.” In one version of the scam, criminals are pretending to be debt collection agency officials acting on behalf of the IRS. They’ll call taxpayers who’ve had fraudulent tax refunds deposited into their bank accounts, claim the refund was deposited in error, and threaten recipients with criminal charges if they fail to forward the money to the collection agency. This is exactly what happened to a number of customers at a half dozen banks in Oklahoma earlier this month. Elaine Dodd, executive vice president of the fraud division at the Oklahoma Bankers Association, said many financial institutions in the Oklahoma City area had “a good number of customers” who had large sums deposited into their bank accounts at the same time.
Credit to Author: John Maddison| Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:45:59 +0000
2018 is lining up to be the year of Digital Transformation. Just about every organization looking to remain viable in the growing digital marketplace has some sort of digital transformation in progress or one in the planning stages for this year. These projects range from implementing basic applications to better interact with online consumers, to converging OT and IT networks, or even pushing their entire infrastructure to the cloud.
Credit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:46:37 +0000
The Quick Heal Annual Threat Report 2018 is up and it puts together information that concerns individuals and business owners alike. It gives an insight into how the cybersecurity landscape shaped up in 2017 and how it is going to be in 2018. This infographic presents a quick overview of…
Robert Gibbons, CTO at Datta, joins host Steve Ragan to talk about why companies pay out ransoms, the role of incident response plans and continuity strategies, and how companies weigh the risks.
Credit to Author: Ronen Shpirer| Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 09:45:59 +0000
The Mobile Security and Managed Security Services Zone area that we’re setting in up in our booth at this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) places Fortinet at the center of one of the most innovation-intensive sectors of Communication Service Providers (CSPs). The dawning era of 5G is about much more than speeds and availability.
