Ano: 2016

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...

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...

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 &...

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...

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...

Cyber Security Trend Featured article by Stephen Gates A DDoS attack is blatantly illegal anywhere, and distressingly common everywhere. In fact, by most analysts’ estimates, it’s getting worse—every online enterprise is worried about this assault, or at least should be.  Of course, some things have changed: The parties involved, the...