A hacker using the handle Peace is currently selling 360 million Myspace users’ email addresses and passwords, 40 million email addresses and passwords for the dating site Fling and 65 million Tumblr passwords, security researcher Troy Hunt reports.

Track: General Security Author: Stephen Gates, Chief Research Intelligence Analyst, NSFOCUS According to reports, the famous hacker collective known around the world as Anonymous is back at it again.  Icarus is the name of their latest operation, which began in the first few days of May. When I first heard about the latest name for their […]

Insurance People Continuing the theme on the previous page, it’s also true that hardly a day goes by without a data breach report of some kind. The European Parliament passed the final vote for the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on 14 April 2016. Alex Cruz Farmer, our VP of cloud, advises that these […]

SC Magazine Security researchers at Kaspersky claim that virtually any cash machine can be illegally accessed and stolen from. The researchers said that most ATMs are usually based on outdated software (such as Windows XP) and this makes the vulnerable to either malware or other exploits. Another security headache is the use of the insecure XFS […]

BrightTalk  In this interview Aftab Afzal talks about the future of cloud, as well as challenges and opportunities prepared for the cloud in the context of IoT and modern security threats. To view the interview, please click here.  

CRN Malware discovered at a nuclear power plant in Germany raised concerns public concerns and prompted the German electric utilities company RWE AG to shut down the power plant as a precaution. The malicious code was discovered in the IT network that affects the fuel loading system in block B of the Gundremmingen nuclear power […]

IT PRO A nuclear power plant in Germany has been infected by malwaredesigned to give hackers remote access to its systems. The Gundremmingen power station, north-west of Munich, is run by the German utility RWE. According to media reports, two strains of viruses, W32.Ramnit and Conficker were discovered at the facility’s B unit in a computer […]

Digital Forensics Magazine The Telegraph has reported that a nuclear power plant in Germany has been found to be infected with computer viruses. The Gundremmingen plant, located about 120 km (75 miles) northwest of Munich, is run by the German utility RWE. The viruses, which include “W32.Ramnit” and “Conficker”, were discovered at Gundremmingen’s B unit in a computer system retrofitted […]

Global Security Magazine Kaspersky Labs research has shown that ATMs can easily be hacked by cyber criminals, meaning funds could be stolen. To see the comments by Alex Cruz Farmer, please click here.    

Security Asia  ViewQwest launched their DDoS Protection Service that defends the networks of banks, e-commerce vendors, telcos and just about any business with an online presence against the increasingly malicious and debilitating DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attacks. Powered by enterprise security specialist NSFOCUS, the new service aims to make premium-grade Internet security more affordable for businesses and […]