45% of IT pros say Government initiatives increase c-level awareness of security
New research finds the likes of CERT-UK also had an influence on IT departments’ policies and strategy, but are individual employees hearing the message?
London: New research released today reveals that 45% of IT professionals feel Government initiatives like CERT-UK and Operation Waking Shark II have actively helped them raise awareness of cybersecurity to senior management.
In response to the news that Lizard Squad are now threatening Malaysia Airlines with a data dump, following an attack on the company’s website, Kevin Epstein, VP of Advanced Security and Governance at Proofpoint, says:
Another vulnerability shocked the Linux world on 27th January. The Qualys security research team found a critical vulnerability in the Linux GNU C Library (glibc) that allows attackers to remotely take control of an entire system without having any prior knowledge of system credentials – according to Qualys reports.
Following Qualys’ recent announcement on the GHOST vulnerability affecting Linux, Apostolis Mastoris, Security Consultant, MWR InfoSecurity, says:
“GHOST has its origin in a flaw that was well hidden for almost 15 years in one of the most popular open-source libraries. The vulnerability was initially discovered and fixed back in 2013, however, it was not classified as a security issue. Thus, many of the systems operating on long-term-support Linux distributions may still be liable to compromise in case they incorporate software that supports earlier versions of the library.
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