London, UK: AlienVault been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries quadrant of the 2014 “Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management.” In addition, AlienVault was included in the “Critical Capabilities for Security Information and Event Management” report.
SAN DIEGO, Calif.: Cubic Corporation has announced a collaboration with Gulf Coast State College (GCSC), the Port of Panama City and Gulf Power to create a high fidelity training and evaluation environment for products and services targeting the rapidly expanding Internet of Things market. This joint effort seeks to set an example of how new quality jobs can be created by combining the individual strengths and attributes of local businesses, educational institutes and government agencies. Local jobs in engineering, global logistics, cloud computing, big data analytics, cyber security, field engineering and customer support are anticipated.
Following the discovery of a recent a remote access trojan (RAT) which is using Dropbox for command and control in a targeted attack against the Taiwanese Government, we have the following comments from Tripwire, explaining how and why Dropbox lends itself well to these types of attacks:
‘Old School’ email social engineering or data-entry phishing is an attack method that has been on the rise in recent months, notably employed by the Syrian Electronic Army to hack seemingly every major media outlet in the Western hemisphere. Data-Entry phishing emails lure employees into freely giving up their login credentials by taking them to a seemingly legitimate landing page. Attackers then use the credentials to establish a foothold in the network.
To expose official corruption in Nigeria, re-orientate the psyche of Nigerians and usher in the Nigerian renaissance
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