I’ve been reading a number of recent studies regarding data breaches in healthcare, such as ‘The 2014 Bitglass Healthcare Breach Report’ by Bitglass and ‘Fourth Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy & Data Security’ by The Ponemon Institute, and there are a number of key facts that jump out at me: – The number of…
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Security Vendors Warn of Sophisticated Threat Using Dyre VariantSecurity experts advise banking institutions to take several steps, including enhancing authentication and ramping up commercial customer education, as a result of an increase in sophisticated online banking attacks involving a new variant of Dyre malware.

This article proposes that commercial cyber intelligence products have multiple flaws which make it unreliable for use by the U.S. government, and that it falls upon the government to address those flaws in the following ways:Examine cyber threat intelligence for indicators of deception. Differentiate between bad actors in an attack. Invest in developing human assets who are in a position to corroborate or deny what the technical indicators present as possibilities. Exclude other possibilities until one remains. “Hit anything that doesn’t look like a knife until it does.”(1)The U.S.

Featured | Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Telecoms & NBNComplaints against Australia’s telcos by consumers decreased for the fourth consecutive quarter in 2014, with complaints to the industry watchdog at their lowest since 2007.