General Data Protection Regulation
April 14, 2016
Compute Scotland The European Parliament has passed the final vote for the new GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). These approved new data protection rules will strengthen online privacy, streamline legislation between the 28 member states and boost police and security cooperation. Alex Cruz Farmer, our VP of Cloud comments, “This is a great step towards […]
Cyber attack on Lithuanian Parliament – expert comment
April 12, 2016
Global Security Magazine During a gathering of World Congress of Crimean Tatars, and an international conference on Mass Violations of Human Rights in Occupied Crimea on Monday April 11, the Lithuanian parliament (Seimas) website suffered a cyber attack. Cerniauskas also confirmed that the so-called DDoS attack had been carried out from at least 10,000 computers […]
Industry Reactions to Panama Papers: Feedback Friday
April 8, 2016
Security Week Hackers breached the systems of Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca and leaked a large number of documents that appear to show how politicians, businessmen and other public figures from across the world used offshore companies to hide their income and avoid paying taxes. Aftab Afzal, our SVP & GM EMEA said that as […]
Huge data breach leaves details of 55 million Filipino voters exposed to hackers
April 8, 2016
SC Magazine The entire database of the Philippines’ Commission on Elections (COMELEC), including passport info and fingerprint data was breached according to the Philippine government. Aftab Afzal, our senior vice president EMEA said that the breach highlights just how critical it is to have in-depth data / network security polices, processes, tools with real world risk registers. He also […]
Security researchers defeat reCAPTCHA
April 7, 2016
SC Magazine A trio of security researchers has demonstrated how Google’s reCAPTCHA technology can be broken. The technology is used by Google, Facebook and others to protect websites against spam and abuse. According to a research paper, the researchers managed to identify flaws in the technology that would enable hackers to influence the risk analysis, […]
DDoS: The Reason Why
April 7, 2016
Cyber Security Trend Featured article by Stephen Gates A DDoS attack is blatantly illegal anywhere, and distressingly common everywhere. In fact, by most analysts’ estimates, it’s getting worse—every online enterprise is worried about this assault, or at least should be. Of course, some things have changed: The parties involved, the strategies deployed, the technologies used, […]
NSFOCUS Continues EMEA Expansion with appointment of industry veteran
April 6, 2016
Aftab Afzal Will Oversee New Business Initiatives in Key Markets LONDON, UK. – April 6, 2016 – NSFOCUS IB today announced that Aftab Afzal has joined the company as the new Senior VP and General Manager for the EMEA region. NSFOCUS was founded in 2000 to provide enterprise-level network security solutions and services primarily in […]
Turkish Identity Breach May Affect 50 Million
April 5, 2016
Infosecurity Magazine A breach of the Turkish national database has confirmed that it contains personal information of around 50 million people. Alex Cruz Farmer, VP of Cloud said that at the time of writing, the validity of the data has not been confirmed, but it could go down as one of the largest data breaches […]
DDoS – Motivations for the Madness, Part 2
March 28, 2016
Track: General Security
Author: Stephen Gates, Chief Research Intelligence Analyst, NSFOCUS
In an earlier blog post I described some of the threat actors and the motivations that often fuel DDoS attacks.
Continuing with this theme, another prominent motivation reared its ugly head in the late 2000s. Cyber hacktivism, as it is called today, is still one of the most observed motivations for DDoS attacks. People who claim to have a substantiated reason for launching attacks, based upon their personal, social, moral, or political agenda, launch attacks daily against a host of helpless victims. The reasons behind the attacks can be based on just about anything that someone doesn’t like. One recent example was an attack on Nissan from a group protesting Japan’s stance and policies with respect to Marine life. (more…)
DDoS – Motivations for the Madness, Part 1
March 21, 2016
Track: General Security
Author: Stephen Gates, Chief Research Intelligence Analyst, NSFOCUS
Most people know that launching a DDoS attack is illegal in just about every country in the world. However, breaking the law or the penalties that go along with it, have not slowed the growth or frequency of DDoS attacks. Most companies who track DDoS attacks globally, all report the problem is growing, day-by-day. Just about every organization connected to the Internet is concerned about this cyber attack vector, and the motivations for these attacks vary widely. (more…)
