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Wick Hill named distributor for Guidance Software

Channel solution for security risks from an increasingly mobile and data-heavy network environment

Woking, Surrey: VAD Wick Hill announced today that it has been appointed distributor for US-based Guidance Software. Guidance Software is a world leader in digital forensics, with incident response, analytics, forensic and e-discovery products, which are already used by 65% of Fortune 100 companies. Wick Hill will introduce Guidance Software’s products to channel partners in the UK, as well as providing marketing, training and technical support.

: ANNABELLE BROWN; Viewpoints; Posted On Friday, 13 September 2013 10:35

Syria: Where is the exit, please?

At the outset of the Arab Spring, when the Tunisians successfully and speedily overthrew the government of Zine El-Abidine in a huge popular uprising, commentators from all over the Middle East were taken by surprise at the ease with which a well-entrenched Tunisian state had been overcome by a massive tide of popular discontent. Members of the Syrian opposition, especially those residing in Europe, pointed to the “psychological barriers of fear” in the minds of Middle Easterners which, they claimed, had until then exaggerated the power and strength of the existing political regimes in the area.

: Husam Dughman; Viewpoints; Posted On Friday, 13 September 2013 10:28

Prolexic reveals the tainted world of multiplayer video games and denial of service attacks

Gaming communities provide fertile ground for DrDoS attacks against financial services, fellow players

HOLLYWOOD, FL: Prolexic, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services has detailed the rampant problem of denial of service attacks within and from online gaming communities. The DDoS attacks, which can pack a powerful punch by the use of reflection and amplification (DrDoS) techniques, have been used against other gamers, gaming platforms and even third party targets such as financial services and other non-gaming businesses.

: MICHAEL DONNER; InfoSecurity; Posted On Friday, 13 September 2013 10:18

Prying eyes steal customer data at a major EU Telco: How to avoid insider data theft

This notification is possibly the first major breach made visible under the new tough EU Telecoms rules on data privacy.

The data stolen includes “names, addresses, birth date, gender, bank sort code and bank account numbers for approximately 2 million applications from individuals seeking to sign up with Vodafone Germany”. The key word here is seeking to sign up. This is likely the web applications where customers fill out forms, send in credit and bank details for verifying identity. Ironically, while this streamlines a business process to get a new customer a phone, its perfect data to commit Identity theft.