New weapon systems Pentagon very easy to hack
The U.S. Department of Defense, the Pentagon, is going to deploy a new generation of weapon systems. These systems appear to be very easy to hack. The systems have moderate passwords, employees communicate without using encryption and there are many unresolved bugs.
This is stated in a report by the... Read more
Customized Ethernet ports contain secret Chinese microchips
Bloomberg once again brings out a story about Chinese espionage chips in server hardware of American companies. This time it would be a manipulated Ethernet port that was discovered on a server of an American telecom player.
Bloomberg does not let go of the story of the secret Chinese espionage chi... Read more
Sophos expands Intercept X Advanced with detection and response tools
Sophos adds Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) to its Intercept X portfolio for endpoint protection. This democratises tools such as threat tracking and ISOC.
EDR tools are tools for monitoring endpoint and network events, and gathering all that information into a central database for further ana... Read more
Heathrow Airport is fined for leakage of personnel data
Heathrow Airport Limited has been fined £120,000 (€140,000). The company behind the airport in London has not paid enough attention to data protection. A USB stick with personnel data was lost.
The fine was imposed by the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) for a serious violation of the... Read more
Free malware maker Gazorp offers AZORult attacks
Gazorp, a free malware-maker found on the dark web, lets cyber criminals make their own AZORult attacks. AZORult is a trojan that collects data from a system. It searches for stored passwords, files and login details of the computer itself.
The malware-maker was discovered by Check Point Research o... Read more
‘More than half of the small businesses have had to deal with cyber-attacks’.
Cybercriminals focus on small businesses. Today, research by Alert Online shows that more than half (53 percent) of small businesses have experienced cyber-attacks aimed at money or data. The fact that more and more companies are working digitally means that there is a need for better security.
That... Read more
Homeland Security denies Bloomberg story about Chinese espionage chips
Earlier this week, press agency Bloomberg stated that China had secretly placed small chips on Supermicro's motherboards. This would spy on various American tech companies, including Amazon and Apple. The companies denied the news and now the American secret service, Homeland Security, is putting it... Read more
“China placed spy chips in servers Amazon, Apple and other companies.
Amazon and Apple are said to be targets of Chinese espionage. It is said that chips have been placed on the motherboard of certain servers in the data centres of the companies. The claims are denied by the companies, as well as by the manufacturer of the motherboards, Supermicro Computer.
The story ... Read more
Palo Alto Networks expands cloud security with RedLock acquisition
Palo Alto Networks announces that it has reached an acquisition agreement with RedLock. The cloud security specialist is recruited by Palo Alto for $173 million.
RedLock specializes in security for customers who work with a public cloud, such as Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. The company ha... Read more
New Splunk solutions make detecting cyber attacks easier
Splunk has announced new innovations to its security portfolio to help security teams detect and investigate cyber-attacks more easily and quickly. The solutions have new functions such as security automation, orchestration and response (SOAR), the Use Case Library and Event Sequencing.
The company'... Read more