The Green Sheet Numerous consumers who used credit cards at Midwest and Northeast locations of The Wendy’s Co. in the latter part of 2015 were notified by their card issuing banks of a potential data security breach. Company spokesman Bob Bertini advised news media that fraudulent charges began to appear elsewhere after the cards were […]

MedCity News The hackers who brought down the computer network and connected medical devices at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles have taken healthcare cyberattacks to the next level, according to a maker of network security technology. The hackers are demanding a ransom of 9,000 Bitcoin, equivalent to about $3.6 million, to unlock the […]

SC Magazine CloudFlare DDoS check page as a Nuclear exploit kit (EK) gate to load a malicious redirection that ultimately triggers the EK, Malwarebytes Security Researcher Jerome Segura said in a blog post, “Upon further check, the server’s IP address is clearly visible and does not belong to CloudFlare at all. Our Principal Sales Engineer […]

Track:  Technical Author: Vann Abernethy, Field CTO, NSFOCUS When thinking about how to best to protect an environment, most non-security people tend to focus on the latest whiz-bang tools and threats that get mainstream media attention.  Truly effective security, however, starts with understanding the environment that you are protecting, and wrapping policy, process, tech and finally […]

InfoSecurity  Up to 21 million accounts on Alibaba e-commerce site TaoBao may have been compromised thanks to a massive brute-force attack. Dave Martin, our security expert and director said that some of the accounts were compromised because of overlapping passwords but there were likely many accounts stolen due to weak passwords that were defeated using […]

eWeek As reports of attacks against energy utilities emerge, there is some evidence that they aren’t properly secured, two separate studies show. NSFOCUS report analyzed that the malware which has been implicated in the Ukraine outage shows that the attack didn’t necessarily use an exotic zero-day vulnerability. The report concludes that a Trojan called BlackEnergy […]

TechTarget Search Security A new report on the EINSTEIN government cybersecurity system concluded that it is only “partially meeting its stated system objectives,” and needs some major changes. The report comes from the U.S. General Accountability Office (GAO) and had some startling revelations, including that the National Cybersecurity Protection System(NCPS), operationally known as EISTEIN, is […]

Track:  Business Author: Dave Martin, Director of Product Marketing, NSFOCUS Network connectivity has become a commodity business.  Business internet access once priced at $500 per month for 1.5 Mbps is now available for half of the cost at almost 70x the capacity.  While this is great for consumers, pure play service providers often struggle to maintain […]

Will Oversee Cloud-Based Anti-DDoS Mitigation Centers SANTA CLARA, Calif. – February 9, 2016 – NSFOCUS IB today announced that industry veteran Alex Cruz Farmer, has been appointed to the position of VP, Cloud Services. In this capacity he will oversee the new cloud-based mitigation centers the company is launching as part of its hybrid anti-Distributed […]

New offering features greater flexibility for organizations seeking to supplement existing defenses SANTA CLARA, Calif. – February 8, 2016 – NSFOCUS IB will build its own global cloud-based Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation services. This next stage in the Company’s growth provides the ability to deliver both cloud and hybrid operating models to boost […]