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By Amichai Shulman December 06, 2011
This blog post offers predictions for the top cyber security trends for 2012. The analysis is designed to help companies shield themselves from the threat...
By Amichai Shulman December 01, 2011
The UK recently released a new strategy document delineating a future approach towards cyber security. First, some positives: Problem has been analysed correctly and the...
By Amichai Shulman August 16, 2011
SailPoint has recently released their survey results regarding employee behavior with respect to corporate data. An interesting figure indicates that 24% of the surveyed Brits...
By Amichai Shulman July 25, 2011
Results of a Web Application Attack Report (WAAR) reveal that web applications, on average, experience twenty seven attacks per hour, or roughly one attack every...
By Amichai Shulman May 25, 2011
A survey of over 320 IT security professionals has revealed that organisations in the UK have not changed their attitudes to the threat of insider...
By Amichai Shulman April 19, 2011
The results of a second study on the impact of the Payment Card Industry’s (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) shows that while the majority of...
By Amichai Shulman April 08, 2011
A week after Epsilon confirmed that it had detected an unauthorised entry into its email system, the ripple effect is starting to be felt here...
By Amichai Shulman April 01, 2011
The industrialization of hacking is today the number one cyber-threat to most organizations and according to one estimate, it’s an industry which rolls $1 trillion...
By Amichai Shulman March 07, 2011
PandaLab’s recent malware findings report indicates that the number of infected clients has decreased in February in relation to January. The data for this research...
By Amichai Shulman February 15, 2011
The Boy in the Browser is a sophisticated trojan, a “dumbed-down” version of MitB. In essence, a BitB is a less mature version of the...
By Amichai Shulman February 10, 2011
The recently published 2011 CyberSecurity Watch Survey claims to show that 21 per cent of attacks on organisations are caused by insiders. And the report...
By Amichai Shulman February 08, 2011
Last week researchers unveiled a “dating database” consisting of 250,000 users. This was not just any ordinary dating site where one registers to and agrees...
By Amichai Shulman January 19, 2011
Oracle patching needs fixing. In the past, Oracle provided a solid process of receiving reports, validating and scheduling fixes. Oracle had a lot of momentum...
By Amichai Shulman December 23, 2010
Reports that the Web site of a New York-based tour firm has been hacked and around 110,000 bank card details lifted by hackers may have...
By Amichai Shulman December 10, 2010
I have been closely tracking the Anonymous Hacker Group and its attacks against various Web sites and have found that the tool to initiate a...
