Wheat a moment: Multigrain malware uses DNS to steal POS data

April 20, 2016 | NSFOCUS

SC Magazine A new variant of malware has been discovered that uses DNS to evade antivirus measures, security researchers have warned. Dubbed Multigrain, the malware is a variant of the NewPoSThings family of malware. It infects Windows processes that process credit card data and collects financial information before sending it off to a C&C server.Alex Cruz […]

DDoS Attacks: A Closer Look, Part 1

April 20, 2016 | NSFOCUS

Track:  Technical Author: Martin Stone, Principal Sales Engineer, NSFOCUS If you’ve ever seen portrayals of DDoS attacks in TV and movies, they might seem like scary, mysterious attacks, launched by elite hackers, against which there is no protection. Nothing could be farther from the truth.  DDoS is one of the simplest and easiest ways to […]

‘Perfect storm’ of ransomware, malvertising and phishing attacks follow ‘Celebgate’ forum breach

April 18, 2016 | NSFOCUS

SC Magazine  Malwarebytes researchers spotted what they called the “perfect storm” of ransomware, malvertising, phishing attacks, and other malware following the breach of a popular forum dedicated to “Celebgate” leaked nude photos. Vann Abernethy,  our field chief technology officer, said users shouldn’t rush to pay ransoms if they get infected with ransomware. To read the full article, please […]

European Parliament approves new General Data Protection Regulation rules

April 15, 2016 | NSFOCUS

Continuity  Central New EU data protection rules were given their final approval by MEPs on Thursday and the countdown for European-based organizations to manage the compliance risk has started. The European Parliament’s vote ends more than four years of work on a complete overhaul of EU data protection rules. Alex Cruz Farmer, our VP of […]

EU data protection law is passed

April 15, 2016 | NSFOCUS

CCR Magazine The European Parliament passed the final vote for the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). These approved new data protection rules will strengthen online privacy, streamline legislation between the 28 member states and boost police and security cooperation. Notably, the regulation includes tougher penalties for companies in breach of EU data protection law, […]

General Data Protection Regulation

April 14, 2016 | NSFOCUS

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 | NSFOCUS

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 | NSFOCUS

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 | NSFOCUS

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 | NSFOCUS

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, […]

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