Dec 6, 2016 | General Security
In what most employers would consider a ‘nightmare scenario’ an ex-employee took down the network of an ISP and caused them to be offline for a week. This employee was finally sentenced this week to 2 years in prison and fined $26,000 for the incident in...
Dec 6, 2016 | Data Breaches
More than 87 Million accounts associated with video-sharing site Dailymotion, one of the biggest video platforms in the world, have been stolen in another “mega-breach”. An unknown hacker has extracted all 87.6 million email addresses and usernames from...
Dec 5, 2016 | Cyber-Crime
Ransomware seems to have maintained its attractiveness among cybercriminals, steadily growing on multiple operating system platforms – including mobile since 2014. Android users have been targeted by various versions of this extorting malware, most frequently by the...
Dec 2, 2016 | Vendor News
We first met the PacketSled name through a mutual CyberSecurity professional – we watched them as they progressed from startup to company making moves into the area of deep packet inspection and traffic analysis areas, and watched with interest as the company...
Dec 1, 2016 | Cyber-Crime
In an ‘unprecedented global law enforcement response’ to cybercrime, federal investigators in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe have today announced that they have dismantled a sprawling cybercrime machine known as “Avalanche” — a distributed,...
