93.4 million Mexican voters exposed in massive database leak
abril 26, 2016
SC Magazine All of Mexico’s voters have had their personal information leaked online. The details of 93.4 million voters, the entire voting age population of Mexico and 73 percent, the large majority of Mexico’s 119 million citizens, were exposed online late last week. Alex Cruz Farmer, our VP of Cloud told SC that the data wasn’t even […]
ViewQwest and NSFOCUS launch Singapore’s most affordable clean pipe solution with DDoS protection at $699 per month
abril 26, 2016
Singapore (26th April, 2016) – ViewQwest today launched their DDoS Protection Service that defends the networks of banks, e-commerce vendors, telcos and just about any business with an online presence against the increasingly malicious and debilitating DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attacks. Powered by enterprise security specialist NSFOCUS, the new service aims to make premium-grade Internet security […]
Bug hunter finds backdoor in Facebook left by another bug hunter
abril 25, 2016
SC Magazine A security researcher has managed to gain access to one of Facebook’s corporate servers only to discover a backdoor left by another security researcher. According to Orange Tsai, a penetration tester at Devcore, a security consultancy in Taiwan, the backdoor was discovered after the researcher started mapping out Facebook’s infrastructure beyond its social media […]
Millions of Mexican voter records ‘were accessible online’
abril 25, 2016
BBC News A massive database of Mexican voter records was made publicly accessible on the internet, a US security researcher has discovered. The names, addresses, dates of birth and voter ID numbers of 87 million Mexicans appeared to be listed in the cache. Alex Cruz Farmer, our VP of Cloud Service, said: “This is a significant breach, […]
Mexican voter database containing 93.4 million records leaks online
abril 22, 2016
International Business Times A database reportedly containing roughly 93.4 million Mexican voter registration records was discovered on an Amazon cloud server without any password protection and includes everything from home addresses to ID numbers, a security researcher has disclosed.”This is a significant breach, and what makes it worse is that the data was being held […]
Police take DDoS attacks more seriously as they cover for something more sinister – expert comment
abril 22, 2016
CCR Magazine To date, police have generally considered distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to be a low-level crime. However, they are now starting to take them much more seriously. Alex Cruz Farmer, our VP of cloud said: “Having dealt with the National High Tech Crime Unit in the past, now known as the Serious Organised Crime […]
DDoS attacks now a priority with UK law enforcement, says Cybercrime Unit chieff
abril 21, 2016
Information Age Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are often quite unsophisticated, brute force attempts to disable a website or network by barraging it with traffic, but the damge they can do to victims can be considerable. To date, police have generally considered DDoS attacks to be a ‘low level’ crime, but now Mike Hulett, head […]
‘Perfect storm’ of ransomware, malvertising and phishing attacks follow ‘Celebgate’ forum breach
abril 18, 2016
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
abril 15, 2016
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
abril 15, 2016
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, […]