It was reported yesterday that cyber criminals have found a hole in Android-based two-factor authentication systems that banks around the world are using. As a result of this, 34 banks in four countries have become victims of a sophisticated spear-phishing and malware campaign known as Operation Emmental. Below are comments by security experts: Michael Sutton, VP of security research at Zscaler and TK Keanini, CTO at Lancope.
In response to the news that a SQL injection flaw in Wall Street Journal database has led to breach, Barry Shteiman, director of security strategy at Imperva:
LONDON, UK: IT security professionals are gambling with the security of their organisations by failing to update important service and process account passwords on a regular basis, with almost 15 percent admitting to either never updating passwords or only updating them annually, a new survey from Lieberman Software Corporation has revealed.
LONDON (UK): Varonis Systems, Inc. has announced it has enabled the employees of ATMI to use cloud-style file sharing remotely and securely using any device with customers, vendors and each other – turning their existing file shares into a private cloud – through the adoption of Varonis DatAnywhere.
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