A rescent article on ComputerWeekly.com (1) state that “Banks assess the losses sustained from customers leaving, because of security fears, greater than covering the cost of cyber crime.” In this article they state that at a tech conference in the UK, the City of London commissioner, Adrian Leppard said that cyber criminals are stealing more […]
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Certain Ransomware Victims may be able to decrypt files without paying ransomware
Certain Ransomware Victims may be able to decrypt files without paying ransomware It looks like one of the latest strains of ransomware may be flawed. Securelist.com explain the some facts about the Torlocker ransomware as follows “Our analysis has shown that Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Scraper was presumably written in assembler, which is unusual for this type of malware. […]
The FBI is investigating the hacks of a number of websites – including the site of Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.
Police and FBI are investigating defacement attacks on a number of websites including the site of Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, where attackers placed an ISIS flag banner on website home pages and played an Arabic song in the background. The common ground for all of the websites is that they are using WordPress Content Management Systems. […]
AWS – users have the choice on what regions data is stored for EU approval
The European Union’s data protection authorities have approved Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) data processing agreement (DPA). According to the National Commission For Data Protection (Luxembourg) (1) “On 6 March 2015, the CNPD issued a letter, confirming that the Data Processing Addendum of AWS was in line with the Standard Contractual Clauses of Commission Decision 2010/87/EU and […]
Obama foreign cyber attackers with sanctions
US president Barack Obama has signed an executive order establishing a framework for the US to impose sanctions on foreign cyber attackers. According to Computerweekly.com(1) “The order formalises an approach taken in January 2015 by the US when it imposed fresh sanctions on North Korea in response to the November 2014 cyber attack on Sony Pictures […]
Europes Highest Court considering a case which could decide how Europeans data will be shared with US internet Firms
Europes Highest Court considering a case which could decide how Europeans data will be shared with US internet Firms ComputerWeekly (1) states that “The case against Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner was referred to the ECJ by the high court in Dublin for a ruling on whether the watchdog is bound by the safe harbour agreement.” A ruling […]
Router Emulators
Router Emulators Over the years whilst training – I have had to use a number of physical SOHO / WAP and Router Devices to facilitate labs, this is a resource which I previously put together listing a number of the device front ends for different devices, please note that these are all hosted on the […]
Toshiba’s new “Military-grade” 256-bit encryption USB Flash Drive
The Digital Products Division of Toshiba launched an encrypted USB flash drive which uses hardware based encryption to deliver robust and secure AES 256-bit military grade encryption. This flash drive is meant as an easy and affordable solution for companies, consumers and government agencies who want to safely carry sensitive data. The USB drive is available […]
Data Protection For Data Controllers
The Data Protection Commissioner and our responsibilities. As more and more data is held in digital form it is fundamental that the correct procedures are put in place for the complete data lifecycle to which it was initially collected. The role of insuring that there is a optimum level of protection is a function of […]
Symantec’s Threat Report vol 19 – e-crime to move to a more professional business model
Symantec’s Threat Report (volume 19) published in 2014 identified an increase of data breaches by 62 percent for the previous year, amounting to more than 552 million records exposed, dubbing it the ‘Year of the mega Data breach’. They predict that e-crime will continue to grow and will more than likely move towards a more […]