Following Blue Coat’s discovery of ‘Inception’ - “one of the most sophisticated malware attacks Blue Coat Labs has ever seen", Kevin Epstein, VP of Advanced Security & Governance at Proofpoint has given the following comment:
Following the news that Sony is conducting denial of service attacks from Amazon Web Services http://recode.net/2014/12/10/sony-pictures-tries-to-disrupt-downloads-of-its-stolen-files/ Tim Erlin, director of security and risk at Tripwire explains the potential implications of such activity:
As we prepare to close the book on 2014, researchers at PhishMe - who provide organizations with the ability to train their employees and customers about the risks of spear phishing, have analysed the phishing emails received in the last 12 months to identify what have been the most interesting trends observed.
The top three phishing scams of 2014, according to PhishMe researchers Ronnie Tokazowski and Shyaam Sundhar, are:
Following the most recent news of the POODLE flaw affecting widely used implementations of TLS, Gavin Millard, Technical Director, Tenable Network Security has given the following comment:
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