You’ve Been Breached. Now What? – Webinar, June 5th – 2pm BST
I will be taking part in a webinar next week hosted by Infosecurity Magazine on You’ve Been Breached. Now What? Here are the details of the event The headlines are full of stories of breach, and information security professionals are beginning to accept that security breaches are a ‘when?’, not an ‘if’. According to Verizon’s […]
Ebay Auction Site Breached – Your Data Going, Going, Gone
The popular online auction website announced today that its systems had been breached by attackers exposing “ eBay customers’ name, encrypted password, email address, physical address, phone number and date of birth.” The press release reassures users that “the database did not contain financial information or other confidential personal information” The breach appears to have happened sometime in February or […]
Google Boosts App Security To Protect Customer Data From Unauthorised Access
Google takes its responsibility of keeping business customer data very seriously according to a blog post from Amit Singh, President of Google Enterprise. As a result, the company has announced a raft of security changes which it hopes will further protect its customers from a variety of different types of unauthorised access. The new features […]
Brian Honan Comments on Infosecurity Europe 2014
Infosecurity Europe 2014: Experts Highlight Potential for Security as a Business Enabler as Show Attracts more than 15,000 Unique Industry Professionals Greater collaboration is essential to preventing ‘cyber-war’ keynote speakers’ claim At this year’s Infosecurity Europe conference and exhibition, senior figures from both government and industry have called for greater collaboration on how security intelligence […]
US Senate: Firms Must Protect Users Against Malvertising
A US Senate subcommittee has warned internet advertising companies that they need to better protect internet users from malvertising. Or face the consequences. In a report released yesterday, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, led by senator John McCain, said that hackers were increasingly infecting computers via malware hidden inside online advertising. Self-regulation, it said, has […]
UK Office Workers Lack Trust In Digital World As 1-In-7 Hit By Cybercrime
A new survey from PhishMe Inc. has revealed that the majority of UK office workers have trouble deciding who to trust (awareness training helps) in this, the digital age. That, however, is hardly surprising on account of the fact that 14% have already had a bad experience on the sharp end of cybercrime. The study examined the attitudes […]
Proofpoint, The Human Factor: Advanced Attacks Exploit People
Who’s clicking on what, when and where are they clicking and why on earth are they doing it? Those were all questions Proofpoint were looking to answer in its recent The Human Factor white paper, developed using three months data from the company’s Targeted Attack Protection product. During the last 12 months, according to Proofpoint, […]
Bridging the Airgap
Yesterday I spoke at the International Society of Automation Ireland Section’s Cyber Security Conference. My talk highlighted how relying on air gaps to protect ICS and secure networks is a fallacy. Using well known incidents as examples of how air gaps failed I outline the problem and ways to address it. http://www.slideshare.net/brianhonan/bridging-the-air-gap
UK Survey: 25 Percent of Breaches Go Undetected for More Than 24 Hours
A new survey from Tripwire, Inc., has discovered that 40% of retail and financial organisations need 2-3 days to detect a breach. Last Tuesday I met up with detective novel-inspired Dwayne Melancon and other key Tripwire personnel as part of the Eskenzi press lunch that was being held in conjunction with InfoSecurity Europe 2014. The […]
Mikko Hypponen and I Talk About Whistleblowers
Last week I attended Infosec Europe in London. I hosted a keynote panel on Tuesday on “Actionable intelligence: Building a holistic security threat intelligence capability“. On Wednesday morning I attended Mikko Hypponen’s Keynote. In his keynote, “Whistle Blowing: Threat or Opportunity?“, Mikko highlighted that companies and governments need to understand that with today’s technology individuals have […]