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...
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Utilities Lack Visibility to Prevent All Attacks, Research Shows
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...
Costly government cybersecurity system needs major changes
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),...
29 Daily Habits of Incredibly Successful Executives
Inc. Magazine Getting ahead in business and life is less about luck and more about doing the right things day in and out. 29 successful executives talked about their simple daily habits for helping them get ahead. Tanya Candia, our CMO said “It’s vitally important to stay in shape and...
HSBC Internet Banking Disabled by DDoS Attack
eSecurity Planet HSBC’s Internet banking services were made unavailable for several hours on January 29, 2016 as the bank’s system came under a DDoS attack, BBC News reports. Dave Martin, security expert and director at NSFOCUS said the disruption to online services can be as damaging as a breach. To...
Britain’s HSBC Recovers from Massive DDoS Attack
Security Week British bank HSBC has managed to get its Internet and mobile banking systems back online after crippling distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack knocked systems offline on Friday. Dave Martin, security expert and director at NSFOCUS told Security Week that the costs and technical barriers to execute a...
