Business risk consultancy Riskskill has highlighted what it sees as the main areas of business risk in 2014. Advances in mobile and payment technology predominate globally, along with a retrenchment of government strategy in the UK. Their research suggests that key areas of risk growth in 2014 include:
Throughout the year, metrics were collected from all DDoS attacks launched against the company’s global client base by the Prolexic Security Engineering & Response Team (PLXsert) using proprietary techniques and equipment. Through digital forensics and post-attack analysis, PLXsert is able to build a global view of the evolving DDoS threat.
General phishing attacks target a wide variety of people, typically flooding thousands of inboxes.
EE has had to work on an emergency upgrade to protect its broadband customers after UK researcher, Scott Helme, discovered a security flaw. Security professionals have pointed out that all affected customers are still at risk of falling pray to phishing attacks designed to trick a user into handing over their WiFi password.
Commenting on the attacks on EE broadband customers, Wieland Alge, IT security pioneer, inventor of one of the most robust corporate firewalls and VP and general manager EMEA, Barracuda Networks said:
Lancope, Inc. has announced the results of a Ponemon Institute report entitled, “Cyber Security Incident Response: Are we as prepared as we think?” Findings show that while security threats are imminent, CEOs and other members of the management team are in the dark about potential cyber-attacks against their companies. The research also shows that, as a result, Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) often lack the resources necessary to fend off the continuous onslaught of advanced threats facing today’s organisations.
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