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Another report has surfaced on the web about the actual name of the next-generation Xbox console, this time claiming that the new device will be called Xbox Infinity.
The Xbox 720 is set to be revealed to the world on May 21 but lots of rumors and speculation have appeared about the next-gen console, its features, a... |
10 May 2013
02:58 GMT |
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This past Monday, the UN published a new report stating that Indonesia must figure out a way to improve on its forest governance as soon as possible.
Presently, this country is home to the world's third largest tropical forest cover.
The UN fears that, but for its better looking after these natural ecosyste... |
9 May 2013
16:51 GMT |
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Cyber-Ark Software has released a new study on privileged account security and compliance. According to the report, 86% of large organizations fail to understand the importance of privileged account security.
Despite being warned on numerous occasions, many organizations fail to deploy best security policies for pri... |
9 May 2013
16:41 GMT |
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On Monday, the Pentagon released its 2013 report on the “military and security developments involving the People’s Republic of China.” Despite the fact that China has denied any involvement in cyber espionage operations, the US Department of Defense once again appoints the country as being respons... |
7 May 2013
04:31 GMT |
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Trend Micro, in collaboration with the Organizations of American States, has released an interesting study on the cybersecurity trends in Latin America and the Caribbean.
According to the paper, entitled “Latin American and Caribbean Cybersecurity Trends and Government Responses,” governments are aware o... |
3 May 2013
14:11 GMT |
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Security firm Commtouch has released its Internet Threats Trend Report for the first quarter of 2013. The company reveals that, in the first three months of this year, a whopping 97.4 billion spam emails and 973 million malware emails were sent out each day. Spam levels increased by 98% and phishing by 74% compared... |
2 May 2013
18:11 GMT |
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WhiteHat Security has published its 2013 Website Security Statistics Report. The study is based on vulnerability data collected from tens of thousands of websites belonging to over 650 organizations.
It turns out that, last year, the average number of security holes plaguing a website decreased to 56. In the previou... |
2 May 2013
10:09 GMT |
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On Tuesday, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters announced the start of week nine of the third phase of Operation Ababil, and unless all the copies of the Innocence of Muslims movie are removed from YouTube, the distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against US financial institutions will not stop any time soon.... |
1 May 2013
05:34 GMT |
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Citizen Lab – the research and development lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, that has focused a lot of its work on the “legal surveillance software” FinFisher – has released a new report on the commercialization of spying solutions. Besides detail... |
1 May 2013
05:07 GMT |
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According to a recent study published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), only a few of small and medium-size businesses from the United Kingdom are prepared to handle cyber threats.
The study has found that only 14% of the 250 surveyed companies catalogue security threats as having the highest p... |
30 April 2013
08:32 GMT |
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The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has released its global phishing survey for the second half of 2012. It turns out that between July and December 2012, cybercriminals broke into the systems of hosting providers with unprecedented success. This allowed them to launch mass phishing attacks by abusing the target... |
26 April 2013
17:01 GMT |
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The Information Security Forum (ISF) has released a new study, Data Privacy in the Cloud, which focuses on teaching organizations that want to migrate to the cloud how to handle the risks associated with such decisions, especially now that data stored in the cloud has to comply with privacy regulations.
Many organiz... |
26 April 2013
14:01 GMT |
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The biggest cyber players in the world are usually named as being countries such as Russia, China and the United States. However, over the past month, the number of cyberattacks traced back to North Korea have also increased considerably.
Although the number of overt external attacks, data exfiltration attempts and ... |
26 April 2013
07:04 GMT |
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Microsoft is set to officially release the next-generation Xbox 720 on the market in November this year, and quite a lot of details will be shared at different events throughout spring and summer, according to a new report. After many rumors and leaks, Microsoft confirmed yesterday that it's going to present to... |
25 April 2013
10:44 GMT |
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According to Akamai’s “State of the Internet” report for the fourth quarter of 2012, last year, the number of distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks increased by 200% compared to 2011.
Of the 768 attacks reported by 413 Akamai customers, 35% targeted organizations from the commerce sector, 2... |
24 April 2013
18:01 GMT |
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Security solutions provider FireEye has released a study called “The Advanced Cyber Attack Landscape.” The report, based on over 12 million malware communications, provides some insight into the sophisticated attacks launched by cybercriminals.
The study shows that 184 countries house command and control... |
24 April 2013
15:01 GMT |
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Secure cloud hosting firm FireHost reveals that in the first quarter of 2013, the volume of Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks increased by 132% compared to the same period of 2012. SQL Injection attacks have also increased in frequency compared to the first quarter of 2012, by 87%.
According to the company&r... |
23 April 2013
17:01 GMT |
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According to Verizon’s recently released 2013 Data Breach Investigation Report, financially motivated cybercrimes and state-affiliated espionage campaigns dominated the 2012 threat landscape. Activists have also left an impression, but the impact of their operations hasn’t recorded any significant modific... |
23 April 2013
14:01 GMT |
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Verizon has released its 2013 Data Breach Investigations Report. The company has found that, in 2012, hacking was the “number one way” that data breaches occurred.
The figures from the report show that 52% of data breaches involved hacking. 76% of intrusions exploited weak or stolen credentials, 40% reli... |
23 April 2013
04:13 GMT |
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Security solutions provider F-Secure warns that 87% of the corporate computers they’ve gathered data from lack critical software updates. This represents a serious threat to business security, especially now, when large organizations are often targeted by cyberattacks.
“From the numbers, it appears many ... |
18 April 2013
18:11 GMT |
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IT security solutions provider Secunia has released Country Reports for Germany, the UK, the US, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The studies contain some interesting data on how much vulnerable software is installed on PCs in each country.
For instance, in the US, 15.3% of users had an unpatched operating syste... |
18 April 2013
16:11 GMT |
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According to a new study released on Tuesday by AlgoSec, 64% of professionals believe the greatest security risk is posed by insider threats. Around the same percentage (66%) say the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend is also a major security concern.
The figures also show that 57% of the respondents are currently u... |
17 April 2013
16:11 GMT |
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A brand new report has appeared on the web in regards to the new controller that will be released alongside Microsoft's Xbox 720 later this year, including the fact that it has a better designed D-Pad and that the new wireless technology will result in an improvement of battery life, especially since it continue... |
17 April 2013
13:31 GMT |
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Distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) protection services provider Prolexic has released its Quarterly Global DDOS Attack Report for the first quarter of 2013. The numbers are not encouraging at all.
According to the company, the average bandwidth of DDOS attacks has increased by 718% compared to the previous quarter... |
17 April 2013
11:10 GMT |
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Symantec has released its Internet Security Threat Report, Volume 18. The study provides some interesting figures about targeted attacks, vulnerabilities, data breaches, spam, malware, mobile malware, and botnets.
According to the report, in 2012 the number of targeted attacks increased by 42%. The manufacturing sec... |
16 April 2013
17:41 GMT |
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According to AVG’s latest “Insight” report, 90% of game hacks and pirated copies of popular games hosted on file sharing and torrent websites contain malware. Experts say that the popularity of games such as World of Tanks, Minecraft, Runescape, League of Legends and World of Warcraft – play... |
16 April 2013
05:49 GMT |
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A new report published today by NQ Mobile shows that the number of mobile malware threats increased by 163% last year.
The figures from the report show that in 2012 most malicious elements, 95% to be more precise, targeted Android devices.
In total, the company estimates that 32.8 million Android smartphones... |
15 April 2013
17:01 GMT |
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According to a new study published last week by the Information Security Forum (ISF), an independent organizations that focuses on information risk management and cyber security, supply chains can be highly problematic from an information security standpoint.
Most organizations invest a great deal in keeping their i... |
15 April 2013
16:01 GMT |
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Yet another report concerning the Xbox 720 has appeared on the web, this time with details about the next-generation console but also with new info on the rumored redesigned Xbox 360 console, which can apparently be connected to the new one in order to provide backwards compatibility. Details about the Xbox 720 have... |
11 April 2013
10:11 GMT |
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A brand new Xbox 720 report has appeared on the web, this time claiming that the next generation console will also work as a set-top box, as it's able to display TV content and change the way it's consumed by adding extra features and using its next Kinect iteration.
The Xbox 720 isn't official, as Mi... |
10 April 2013
13:47 GMT |
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Microsoft has issued a formal apology over the comments of one of its creative directors, Adam Orth, about always-on internet connections for consoles, while still declining to talk about its next-generation device, the Xbox 720.
Microsoft is getting ready to debut the Xbox 720 but, despite this, many rumors are fly... |
6 April 2013
03:21 GMT |
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The US Department of Homeland Security’s latest ISC-CERT Monitor reveals that a recent spear-phishing campaign has targeted the systems of 11 companies from the energy sector.
The campaign was active in October 2012 and it used publicly available information.
In order to target specific individuals within the... |
5 April 2013
09:24 GMT |
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Security firm FireEye has released its Advanced Threat Report for the second half of 2012. Based on data collected from over 89 million events, the study focuses on malware, and the way cybercriminals distribute it and defend it against security products.
According to the figures, on average, organizations experien... |
4 April 2013
14:31 GMT |
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Sony is set to hold a major PlayStation 4 event in later April or early May, according to a brand new report that claims the Japanese company doesn't want to wait until June for E3 2013.
The PlayStation 4 was revealed to the world back in February, when a few games and features were revealed to the world, while... |
4 April 2013
10:40 GMT |
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The Xbox 720 controller is quite similar to the Xbox 360 one, although it's a bit smaller in overall size, according to a brand new report about the next-gen platform.
The Xbox 720 is expected to be revealed at the end of May, according to recent rumors, and now a brand new report has surfaced, focusing on the ... |
3 April 2013
07:42 GMT |
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These days, a large number of organizations depend on digital certificates to protect their assets. However, the large number of incidents reported over the past months has shown that issuing and managing them is not an easy task, especially if the problem is not approached properly.
According to a GlobalSign study... |
27 March 2013
16:11 GMT |
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Lieberman Software Corporation has conducted a study at the latest RSA Conference in San Francisco to find out if corporate employees listen to security directives issued by IT departments and executive management.
According to 80% of the 250 IT security professionals who took part in the study, employees deliberate... |
26 March 2013
19:01 GMT |
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Alert Logic, a provider of Security-as-a-Service solutions for the cloud, has released its Spring 2013 State of Cloud Security Report. The study, conducted over a six-month period, highlights the impact of attacks on enterprise data centers and cloud hosting providers.
According to the company, 52% of cloud hosting ... |
26 March 2013
18:01 GMT |
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Network security solutions provider Palo Alto Networks has released its first Modern Malware Review, a report that analyzes the complete lifecycle of unknown pieces of malware.
According to the review, 94% of the threats that enter networks without being detected by traditional antivirus solutions are delivered via ... |
26 March 2013
17:21 GMT |
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Last week, expert from Solutionary provided an interesting graph regarding the evolution of Java vulnerabilities since 1996 and until present day. On Monday, Websense published a report which showed that over 93% of endpoints used an unpatched variant of Java that could be exploited by cybercriminals with the Cool ... |
26 March 2013
05:36 GMT |
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Many Java vulnerabilities have been identified over the past few years and judging by the way things are going, many more will be discovered in the upcoming period.
That’s why it’s worth taking a look at a brief report in which managed security services provider Solutionary highlights the evolution of J... |
23 March 2013
12:01 GMT |
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SafeNet and the Software and the Information Industry Association (SIIA) have conducted a study to analyze the software monetization landscape.
The survey shows that software publishers are losing serious amounts of money because of inadequate licensing models, lack of usage insight, but also due to intellectual pro... |
22 March 2013
18:41 GMT |
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During the last RSA Conference, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), performance and availability monitoring software provider AccelOps conducted a study to find out what was stopping organizations from migrating their critical applications and data to the cloud.
It turns out that of the 176 IT security... |
22 March 2013
17:21 GMT |
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In the period between August and November 2012, 0.11% of all phishing pages identified by Symantec were hosted on compromised websites from India.
If in 2011, education sites were most targeted by phishers, in 2012, they dropped to second place, being overtaken by IT sites.
Information technology websites acc... |
22 March 2013
06:32 GMT |
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Security solutions provider Kaspersky Lab has compiled an infographic called “People and Passwords” based on the answers provided by 11,000 Facebook users from 33 countries and regions. The results show that when it comes to being security savvy, Russians top the chart with only 12% of internauts using t... |
21 March 2013
15:21 GMT |
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Trend Micro Threat Researcher Kyle Wilhoit has published a report on cyberattacks against Industrial Control System (ICS), particularly SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems.
For his study, the expert set up three honeypot websites, each of them mimicking a certain type of system. Then, for a 29-d... |
20 March 2013
16:51 GMT |
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Backgroundcheck.org has released an interesting infographic to highlight the privacy and data security threats healthcare organizations are confronted with. The figures show that 94% of healthcare organizations suffered at least one data breach in the past two years. In the course of three years, around 21 million ... |
19 March 2013
19:41 GMT |
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According to a new study published today by Europol, the EU Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment (SOCTA), currently, there are around 3,600 organized crime groups in the European Union.
While international drug trafficking is the most prevalent, new criminal phenomena has also been observed, such as Interne... |
19 March 2013
09:45 GMT |
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Javelin Strategy & Research has released its 2013 Banking Identity Safety Scorecard report, which focuses on fraud cases and their impact on consumers and financial institutions. According to the figures, in 2012, losses generated by new account fraud and account takeovers, fraud types that have the largest impact, ... |
15 March 2013
17:01 GMT |
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Security incident response management firm Mandiant, which became famous after releasing a report on the cyberattacks launched by the Chinese military, has released its fourth annual M-Trends report.
The study, “M-Trends 2013: Attack the Security Gap,” focuses on advanced persistent threats (APTs), parti... |
14 March 2013
20:11 GMT |
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