Heartbleed bug: Everything you need to know

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As the Heartbleed bug continues to wreak havoc across the internet, here’s our roundup of everything you need to know about it Since news of Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability broke at the start of April, web sites across the globe have taken steps to shore up their defences against it. Meanwhile, web users have found themselves on the receiving end of conflicting advice about whether they should take action and change their passwords or do nothing and wait for the internet service provider community to sort things out. In some cases,…

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More users, more attacks: Kaspersky Lab stats show a surge in Bitcoin cybercrime

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According to the ‘Financial cyber threats in 2013’ study carried out by Kaspersky Lab, financial malware targeting Bitcoin became extremely popular in 2013. The number of attacks targeting the crypto-currency increased more than 2.5 times and accounted for 8.3 million incidents. Bitcoin was created especially for making anonymous e-payments and has become extremely popular over the last few years. In early 2013, the Bitcoin exchange rate was $13.6. By December it reached a record peak, exceeding $1,200. During the year several slumps occurred, but since April 2013 the price of…

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Cisco Launches Managed Threat Defense Service

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Solution Helps Defends Against Known Intrusions, Protect from Unknown Attacks and Guard Against Advanced Persistent Threats In today’s world of cloud, mobile, social and the Internet of Everything, customers face new security challenges as they work to protect their most important asset – data. Cisco today announced Managed Threat Defense, a managed security solution that applies real-time, predictive analytics to detect attacks and protect against advanced malware across customers’ extended networks. According to the Cisco® Annual Security Report, in a sample of 30 of the world’s largest multinational company networks all…

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I want SDN and I want it now!

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A recent demonstration of Juniper’s Software Defined Networking (SDN) showed a level of automation that makes me loathe the mundanity of my day job all the more Software defined networking is a collection of technologies that could free me to do far more business-critical things with my time, like research, automating more difficult-to-commoditize business processes, and so forth. Indeed, it is automation that is at the heart of the matter: the business case for SDN is that of the improvements to health, sanity and pocketbook that automation of IT mundanities…

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Don’t Be Too Quick to Accept That Friend Request!

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It’s exciting to see a Friend Request at the top of your Facebook page. You’re likely to accept Friend Requests without thinking twice, especially if it’s a friend or a name you recognize. You may even be thinking that there’s no real harm in accepting all Friend Requests that come your way. Having more friends means you’re more popular…right? What you may not know is that with name, birth date, education, and work history available online, it’s relatively easy for anyone to create a duplicate of any existing user. Watch…

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Five Myths About Malware You Need to Know

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Malware is everywhere. You can get infected by opening up a rigged attachment in your email, or by visiting a booby-trapped website that automatically downloads malware on to your computer. Once infected, your computer can turn into a zombie, being remotely controlled by criminals to attack other computers. Criminals may steal your personal data or use your computer for nefarious activity. While you need to take precautions to prevent getting infected in the first place, such as running an up-to-date security software, it’s also important to know how malware works and…

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The four levels of digital adaptation

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Improving growth in disruptive times What does the digital economy mean to traditional companies? Digital economy for traditional enterprises mean the expansion or redesign of their existing business model and the introduction of new values, customer segments, products, services and channels to increase profit. These internal changes shall be based on the combination of a classic approach and internet capabilities. Threat and opportunity That is why the digital economy is at the same time an opportunity and a threat for traditional enterprises. The threat comes from not reacting and time and protecting the existing…

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New IDC Tech Marketing Barometer Study Finds Marketers Are Optimistic About Budget Growth – Led by 3rd Platform Companies

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In a recent survey of senior marketers at technology companies, International Data Corporation’s (IDC) CMO Advisory Service found that two-thirds are expecting budget increases for 2014. Additionally, IDC forecasts that marketing budgets within the technology industry will increase 1.5-2.5% overall in 2014. Third Platform companies – those with revenue primarily from cloud, social, mobile, and Big Data and analytics technologies – will see marketing budget increases that are six times greater than the rest of the industry, increasing their marketing spending between 8 and 12%. Despite the projected gains, the…

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Nadella to take center stage on Microsoft earnings call

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All eyes and ears will be on Satya Nadella, now in his third month as CEO, on his first appearance on the Microsoft earnings call. It’s not exactly a shocker that Satya Nadella will anchor Microsoft’s third-quarter earnings call Thursday, but folks will be listening carefully to what he has to say — expecting him to hold fast to his broad strategy of device independence, as long as those devices hook into Microsoft’s Azure cloud. His predecessor, Steve Ballmer, was not a fixture on these calls. As one insider put it, the former CEO…

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Cyber attacks on European cloud providers rise

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Report finds nearly half of providers subjected to brute force attacks from criminals Attacks against cloud platforms and their providers are on the rise, according to a recently published report. The research, carried out by Alert Logic, shows cloud hosting provider (CHP) environments saw a significant increase in action, with brute force attacks climbing from 30 per cent to 44 per cent of customers, and vulnerability scans increasing from 27 per cent to 44 per cent. It said these kinds of attacks have historically been far more likely to target…

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