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Bloor Research Analyst Insights – The 4 Questions for GDPR Success This webinar was recorded April 26, 2018. - Read more

News overview In early January, it was reported that an amateur hacker had come close to pulling off a botnet attack using “improvised” materials. Armed with information gleaned from hacker forums, the DIYer created a Trojan using a zero-day exploit in Huawei routers and released it online. The attack was soon nipped in the bud, but the wannabe cybercriminal could...

With the GDPR compliance deadline of May 25 almost upon us, recent events have highlighted the importance of locking down third-party risk. Attacks on supply chain partners, Facebook’s data leak scandal and a new report from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) have all come at an opportune time to illustrate the potential liabilities facing firms. The GDPR will require...

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Energetic Bear/Crouching Yeti is a widely known APT group active since at least 2010. The group tends to attack different companies with a strong focus on the energy and industrial sectors. Companies attacked by Energetic Bear/Crouching Yeti are geographically distributed worldwide with a more obvious concentration in Europe and the US. In 2016-2017, the number of attacks on companies...

Tripwire, Inc.

Tripwire, Inc.

Looking at Instagram one morning, I spotted several posts from some fairly well-known people (in certain circles) who had invested in an ICO held by Telegram. Interesting, I thought to myself. I fancy a piece of that. Only I was pretty sure that if Telegram was indeed holding an ICO, it would be a private affair — off limits...

When we use popular apps with good ratings from official app stores we assume they are safe. This is partially true – usually these apps have been developed with security in mind and have been reviewed by the app store’s security team. However, we found that because of third-party SDKs many popular apps are exposing user data to the...