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FireEye releases report examining the ransomware threat to industrial production

Land February 28, 2020

A new report from FireEye examines the ransomware threat being faced by industrial production IT and OT. The scale of ransomware threat is examined in a new report from FireEye: Ransomware’s Threat over Critical Infrastructure and Industrial Production, particularly IT and OT vulnerabilities. Since at least 2017, there has been a ...

Censornet criticises cosmetic business data leak

Homeland February 19, 2020

Censornet has released a statement criticising the cosmetic firm Estée Lauder after a data leak saw 440,000,000 records posted online. Cybersecurity firm Security Discovery first reported the data leak after finding the records posted online. They found: 440,336,852 logs and records that should not have been publicly exposed online. ‘User’ emails in plain ...

Positive Technologies finds the majority of web application vulnerabilities are in the source code

Homeland February 18, 2020

New findings from Positive Technologies reveal that 82% of web application vulnerabilities can be found within the source code. Positive Technologies’ new report details web application vulnerabilities as well as statistics on cyberattacks and malware. Positive Technologies has released its report Web Application Vulnerabilities and Threats: Statistics for 2019, which found ...

Japan reveals Defence Ministry suffered “serious” cyber attack

Homeland November 28, 2016

The Japanese Ministry of Defence experienced a “very serious cyber attack” that may have originated from a foreign state agency according to official sources. The attack took place in September but has only just come to light as ministry sources revealed the target of the hack was the Ministry’s Defence Information ...