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...
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Security researchers defeat reCAPTCHA
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...
DDoS: The Reason Why
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...
NSFOCUS Continues EMEA Expansion with appointment of industry veteran
Aftab Afzal Will Oversee New Business Initiatives in Key Markets LONDON, UK. – April 6, 2016 – NSFOCUS IB today announced that Aftab Afzal has joined the company as the new Senior VP and General Manager for the EMEA region. NSFOCUS was founded in 2000 to provide enterprise-level network security...
Turkish Identity Breach May Affect 50 Million
Infosecurity Magazine A breach of the Turkish national database has confirmed that it contains personal information of around 50 million people. Alex Cruz Farmer, VP of Cloud said that at the time of writing, the validity of the data has not been confirmed, but it could go down as one...
DDoS – Motivations for the Madness, Part 2
Track: General Security Author: Stephen Gates, Chief Research Intelligence Analyst, NSFOCUS In an earlier blog post I described some of the threat actors and the motivations that often fuel DDoS attacks. Continuing with this theme, another prominent motivation reared its ugly head in the late 2000s. Cyber hacktivism, as it is...
