With an aim to bridge the gap between industry and students, TAPMI continued its CXO Leadership Series with Mr. Balaji Venketeshwar- Executive Director, Cyber Security Engineering at PricewaterhouseCoopers. The theme of the Leadership talk is “Disruptive Innovation: Opportunities and threat.” He started his talk with three aspects of disruptive technology i.e. innovation, trends, and challenges. […]

Cyber Security Risk Scorecard; Today, almost all companies, regardless of the size or the sector, need to rate their cyber security risk. A reliable and actionable security scorecard can assess the risks and show the ways to eliminate the threats. Generating a security scorecard does not require your personal or secret information. Because they use […]

Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media Minister Clare Curran has initiated a comprehensive refresh of New Zealand’s approach to cyber security, releasing two cabinet papers detailing her proposed approach. She announced the move in a speech at the Wellington launch of Auckland University’s Cyber Security Foundry, saying she wanted to “test whether the government has the […]

The ISBuzz Post: This Post Democratic Party Of Firenza Cyber Attack In Italy From Juniper Networks appeared first on Information Security Buzz. Two top cybersecurity experts with Juniper Networks offers insight into reports (Reuters link) that global news distribution service BusinessWire (owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc.) was hit with a sustained distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyber-attack, and the new tools that […]

Attacks on SCADA systems are on the rise. The freighting truth is that many infiltrated systems have gone undetected. All too often, cyber criminals “infect” systems and silently monitor traffic, observe activity, and wait for months or even years before taking any action allowing them to strike when they can cause the most damage. “We […]

Local authorities face an average of 19.5 million cyber attacks a year, according to an investigation by privacy campaign organisation Big Brother Watch. Download this free guide New technologies: a source of threat as well as a solution Learn about fighting the ever evolving ransomware, IoT botnet malware and data manipulation attacks. By submitting your […]

Another city gets hacked. With paper and phones, Atlanta struggles to recover from cyber attack Atlanta’s top officials holed up in their offices on Saturday as they worked to restore critical systems knocked out by a nine-day-old cyber attack that plunged the Southeastern U.S. metropolis into technological chaos and forced some city workers to revert […]

Highlights Hackers behind Wanna Cry have made only $60,500 so far. Malware first struck on Friday. Meanwhile, a possible North Korea link to the cyber attack has emerged. Since Friday, more than three lakh computers in over 150 countries, including India, have been in the grips of Wanna Cry (or WannaCry), a ransomware that encrypts […]

More than half of Irish businesses expect a cyber attack on their operations by the end of 2017, according to the recently published Dublin Information Sec 2017 report. 36% of respondents said that they have already experienced one this year, reports Irish Independent. “These survey results are interesting but unsurprising – more and more business […]

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton, who was recently interrogated in a Senate hearing over a cyberattack of the government agency’s EDGAR database for corporate filings, said he thinks his predecessor, Mary Jo White, had no knowledge of the data breach that occurred last year. According to news from Reuters, citing comments Clayton […]