Posts Tagged Malware
76% of companies have had a data breach or expect to have a breach
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 23/05/2013
Experian Data Breach Resolution and the Ponemon Institute have released a study that finds that, despite the majority of companies experiencing or anticipating significant cost and business disruption due to a material data breach, they still struggle to take the proper measures to mitigate damage in the wake of an incident. The report, “Is Your […]
Small firms lose up to £800 million to cyber crime a year
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 21/05/2013
New research from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) shows that cyber crime costs its members around £785 million per year as they fall victim to fraud and online crime. The report shows: 41% of FSB members have been a victim of cyber crime in the last 12 months, putting the average cost at around […]
RSA’s March Online Fraud Report 2013, with a focus on Email and Identity takeover
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 26/03/2013
RSA’s March 2013 Online Fraud Report delivers the results from RSA’s fraud monitoring centre, a summary of the report is below. Phishing attacks are notorious for their potential harm to online banking and credit card users who may fall prey to phishers looking to steal information from them. Compromised credentials are then typically sold in […]
RSA’s December Online Fraud Report 2012 including an excellent piece on Ransomware
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 03/01/2013
RSA’s December Online Fraud Report delivers the results from RSA’s fraud monitoring centre, a summary of their report is below. Ransomware is a type of Trojan/malware that can lock files on an infected machine and restrict access to the computer unless the user pays a “ransom” for the restrictions to be removed. Infection campaigns and methods […]
RSA’s November Online Fraud Report 2012 including advice on avoiding fraud
Posted by brianfpennington in PCI DSS Compliance on 31/12/2012
RSA’s November Online Fraud Report delivers the results from RSA’s fraud monitoring centre, a summary of their report is below. In 2011, RSA’s e-commerce authentication technology was used by many of the top card issuers around the globe to protect nearly a half a billion e-commerce transactions and their statistics for 2011 (2012 will be posted when available) […]
6 Experts predict the IT security and compliance issues and trends for 2013
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 20/12/2012
Everyone has an opinion on what could be around the corner, some are based on extensive research and market trends, and some are based on customer expectations and experience. Rather than bore you with my predictions I thought I would extract the predictions of several vendors and a distributor and put them into one single post so it […]
Advance malware threats are growing at an alarming rate
Posted by brianfpennington in Uncategorized on 30/08/2012
FireEye have published their Advanced Threat Report for the first half of 2012. The results are based on their knowledge of Advanced Persistent Threats and the rest of the malware market. Their key findings are: Organizations are seeing a massive increase in advanced malware that is bypassing their traditional security defenses. The patterns of attack volumes […]
RSA’s June Online Fraud Report 2012
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 20/06/2012
In their June Online Fraud Report RSA reports on the activity of online fraudsters, full summary below. RSA researchers have been following Ransomware campaigns and Ransomware Trojan attack waves and have recently analyzed a new variant that holds infected PCs hostage until their owners make a €100 payment to the botmaster. Ransomware is the type of malware that can infect a […]
Report on Malware Activity for the last 6 months 2011 – M86
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 09/02/2012
M86 a web and email security company has released its review of the last 6 months of 2011. The report has some excellent screen shots of malicious attacks, particularly phishing and spam attacks. The screenshots should be shown to all school pupils and college students so they do not make the mistakes. Equally all organisations […]
How advanced attacks succeed, despite $20B spend on enterprise IT security
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 01/09/2011
Image via CrunchBase FireEye has recently released their research into why IT Security attacks continue to be successful despite an annual IT Security spend of $20 billion. A summary of key findings of the FireEye research are below: 1) 99% of enterprises have a security gap, despite $20B spent annually on IT security. Within a […]
RSA’s August Online Fraud Report
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 31/08/2011
Below is a summary of RSA Security’s August 2011 Fraud Report “Your package has arrived,” screamed the email header which landed in the email inbox of countless business professionals around the world. Open it up, and you will find information about a fictitious UPS or FedEx shipment scheduled to arrive. Simply click on the link […]
Symantec MessageLabs June 2011 Intelligence Report
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 11/07/2011
Symantec have released their June 2011 Intelligence Report. The Symantec Intelligence Report, provides the latest analysis of cyber security threats, trends and insights from the Symantec Intelligence team concerning malware, spam, and other potentially harmful business risks. The data used to compile the analysis for this combined report includes data from May and June 2011. Report highlights […]
Email Attacks: This Time It’s Personal
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 01/07/2011
Cisco Security Intelligence Operations’ (SIO) research has found that “Cybercriminal business models have recently shifted toward low volume targeted attacks. With email remaining the primary attack vector, these attacks are increasing in both their frequency and their financial impact on targeted organizations”. Cisco SIO estimates that the Cybercriminal benefit resulting from traditional mass email based […]
Mobile Device Vulnerabilities at an all time high
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 19/05/2011
In study commissioned by Juniper Networks the study found that enterprise and consumer mobile devices are being exposed to a record number of security threats. The study’s key findings Include: App Store Anxiety: The single greatest distribution point for mobile malware is application download, yet the vast majority of Smartphone users are not employing an antivirus […]
A short history of Android security issues
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 18/05/2011
In its recent study, Juniper Networks uncovered some very interesting facts on the growing risk to Android base mobile devices. The time line for the development of the threats is as follows Android Attacks: 2010 January 2010: First bank phishing application for Android March 2010: First Android “botnet” July 2010: GPS monitoring embedded in Tap […]
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