UK establishes £40m military cyber defense centre With the huge proposals and funding pumped into cyber security by the US government lately, there was no doubt the UK would soon be following suit. Plans were unveiled last week for a £40m Cyber Security Operations Centre,…
Nesta report offers a rose tinted insight into the potential for digitising local UK government
A refreshingly progressive report was published in the UK recently, by Nesta, titled ‘Connected Councils: A Digital Vision of Local Government in 2025’. We say refreshing because this is not a doom and gloom report about how corporations are failing to tackle cyber security and…
Panama Papers; was the biggest breach in history caused by a simple vulnerability?
Europe is currently caught up in a political furore surrounding the leak of the ‘Panama Papers’, which basically has leaked the names of those using the offshore tax haven. Among the names to surface have included the Icelandic prime minister, who has since resigned and…
PwC Report Shows Cybercrime in the UK is Growing Rapidly
In the latest edition of their Global Economic Crime Survey, PricewaterhouseCoopers have announced a finding of a 20% increase in cybercrime, making it the fastest growing category of economic crime. The UK seems to be the most severely affected, with 55% of organisations being affected…
Acunetix “Web Application Security” podcast featured on HelpNetSecurity
In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2016, Ian Muscat, Product Communications Manager at Acunetix, talks about web application security at large and how Acunetix Vulnerability Scanner is able to detect and report on a number of vulnerabilities in applications built on architectures such as WordPress,…
Two thirds of companies fail to declare data breaches
A poll of 1000 Institute of Directors members in the UK has found that two thirds of the companies who fall victim to a data breach are failing to declare it publicly or report it to the police for fear of reputational damage. Also, only…
In the headlines: Cyber bank heist, Federal bug bounty program, Facebook flaw and more
Billion dollar cyber bank job foiled by spelling mistake A huge cyber bank heist was uncovered this week when the perpetrator made some spelling errors. Having already successfully drained $101m from the central bank of Bangladesh by penetrating their systems and impersonating officials, they were…
Alliance Technology Partners offering introductory and advanced Acunetix training courses
Alliance Technology Partners, Acunetix Partners since 2007, have announced they shall be offering Acunetix Training Courses, delivered via the web, by their highly experienced senior security engineer. The 3 hour courses on offer are at introductory and advanced level, as well as providing on-going consulting. Training…
The costs of security bugs and why automated testing can help
A report accompanied with a rating taxonomy aimed to help researchers and customers to determine appropriate payouts for bugs found by researchers in bug bounty programs has recently been released by Bugcrowd. These tools, especially the Vulnerability Rating Taxonomy (VRT), which details a number of…