The Register Wendy’s – the third largest fast-food chain in the wood – has become the latest retail giant to lose customers’ credit card numbers to crooks, it appears. The fraudulent activity on people’s payment cards led bank staff to believe Wendy’s systems have been hacked. The company has 6,500 restaurants across 28 countries. Our […]

The Business News Daily Small businesses are the new big target for cyberattacks. As the growing use of automation by cybercriminals allows them to attack thousands of smaller organizations per day. The article listed top threats for small businesses in 2016. Our field CTO Van Abernethy suggested to report issues as soon as possible, it […]

TechTarget Search Security The internet systems consortium released a critical patch for DHCP servers that fixed a flaw that could lead to DDoS attacks. However, the experts were split on whether this issue should lead organizations to switch to IPv6. Stephen Gates, principal sales engineer and technical expert from network security firm NSFOCUS IB said […]

Fox News Dave Martin, Director & Security Expert at NSFOCUS had an interview with FOX in regards to 191 million American voters’ personal information wen publicity by faulty database. Even though it has been claimed that the voters’ information included is already publicly available from each government stage. There is no new or private information […]

The Inquirer The BBC has been victim of a testy hacker group that used the media outfit’s systems to test their own capabilities. They said “The reason we really targeted [the] BBC is because we wanted to see our actual server power.” Our security expert and director Dave Martin pointed out that a worrisome trend […]

eSecurity Planet: All of the BBC’s websites were taken offline for several hours on the morning of December 31, 2015 as result of a massive 660 Gbps DDoS attack. The hacking group, named New World Hacking claimed the responsibility and addressed that to use the attack as a test of its capabilities for planed attacks […]

Softpedia According to the incident of BBC services suffer the massive DDoS attack on New Year’s Eve, our security expert and director Dave Martin responded to Softpedia.com that after a DDoS attack, it is very important to perform a comprehensive forensic analysis of the incident. The analysis should cover not only the targets of the […]

The Green Sheet The National Retail Federation and security analysts are urging merchants and consumers to remain vigilant during the high-peak shopping season, noting that high-volume sales may provide additional opportunities for cybercriminals to attack vulnerable POS infrastructures. The articles also listed the security best practices for merchant and consumer. Our security specialist Vann Abernethy […]

Track:  Technical Author: Stephen Gates, Chief Research Intelligence Analyst, NSFOCUS In my last blog, I wrote about traveling to Las Vegas to attend the NSFOCUS International Business Division (IBD), 2016 Sales Kickoff.  The event was a complete success and I had an opportunity to spend four days with some of the smartest and most successful individuals […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – January 25, 2016 – NSFOCUS IB today announced that Tasso Mangas, an industry veteran with a reputation for building successful sales operations in information security, has joined the management team as VP for North America. In his new position, Mr. Mangas is responsible for generating increased revenue in the U.S. and […]