Malware that Symantec says was probably developed by a nation state may have been used for as long as eight years, a length of time that underscores the challenges the security industry faces in detecting advanced spying tools....
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President Obama and his top national security advisers began receiving periodic briefings on the huge cyberattack at JPMorgan Chase and other financial institutions this summer, part of a new effort to keep security officials as updated on major cyberattacks as they are on Russian incursions into Ukraine or attacks by the Islamic State....
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LONDON, United Kingdom — Hackers brought down the BBC’s websites for several hours on Thursday in a large-scale hacking attack, the British public broadcaster reported....
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Xactly, the leading innovator of cloud-based sales performance management (SPM) software, is happy to announce its second-annual C.A.R.E. Week as part of its XactlyOne philanthropic foundation efforts. The event kicked off on Monday and will continue throughout the week, with each day focusing on a different aspect of C.A.R.E. (Customer Focus, Accountability, Respect and Excellence). The celebration serves as a global, company-wide initiative in which the Xactly community is given the opportunit...
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Malware, DDoS attacks and human behavior remain among the top cyber-risks. In a presentation on the top ten cybersecurity risks facing organizations at the ISACA EuroCACS conference in Munich, Raef Meeuwisse, director of cybersecurity and data privacy governance at Cyber Simplicity and ISACA London Chapter external relations director, described the list as enabling the audience to make a ‘persuasive argument,’ and that is was about trying to change other people around you....
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We are seeing north of 1.5 million shellshock attacks across the @CloudFlare network daily, says Matthew Prince, CEO of the content delivery network and DDoS defense firm CloudFlare. Prince says that count is determined by the companys Web application firewall detecting attempted attacks that use the Shellshock flaw....
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