SC Magazine HSBC UK was the target for a DDoS attack that flooded the financial institution’s systems with manufactured traffic, much to the dismay of online banking customers who were unable to access and manage their accounts. Dave Martin, our security expert and director suggested that HSBC’s servers “were probably busy handling a surge of […]
Help Net Security Wendy’s, the popular and widespread US fast-food chain, is investigating a possible payment card data breach. Vann Abernethy, our senior technical expert said that this incident and other like this should serve as a wake-up call for companies, the payment card industry can consumers alike. To read the full article, please click […]
TechTarget Search Security Fortinet denies that a vulnerability found in many of its products is a true backdoor, but finds that the flaw is more widespread than once thought. Steve Gates, our chief research analyst and principal engineer said that use of hardcoded logins was a serious oversight by Fortinet. To read the full article, […]
Large-scale DDoS assault consumed 23 Terabytes of inbound data in only two hours; outage would have cost up to $1.3 Million SANTA CLARA, Calif. – February 1, 2016 – NSFOCUS IB today announced that NSFOCUS Anti-DDoS System (ADS) has been used to mitigate a sustained, 90-Gbps Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attack against Australian service […]
SC Magazine For the tenth annual Data Privacy Day, cybersecurity experts from across the industry offered their advice on how both individuals and organizations can protect their data. Dave Martin, our security expert and director told SCMagazine.com that consumers should establish a separate or out-of-band communications path with anyone who has contacted them online asking […]
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 […]
