Tim Compston, Guest Features Writer at Security News Desk, sits down with Cliff Wilson, an Associate Partner in the IBM Security Business Unit (UK and Ireland), for an insight into the major cybersecurity concerns and vulnerabilities around legacy industrial control systems and more broadly critical infrastructure. When we start the interview Cliff Wilson (pictured left) – who is responsible for ...
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High Availability Firewall
High Availability Firewall Fail-over cluster Firewall High availability (HA) is a configuration in which two firewalls are placed in a group and their configuration is synchronized to prevent a single point to failure on your network. A heartbeat connection between the firewall peers ensures seamless fail-over in the event that a peer goes down. Setting up the firewalls in HP ...
Read More »Free and Open Source Network UTM Firewalls
Free and Open Source Network UTM Firewalls pfSense pfSense is an open source security solution with a custom kernel based on the FreeBSD OS. It is a software distribution that is customised especially to be used as a firewall and router. This open source firewall can be installed on bare metal hardware and be managed entirely through a Web ...
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WatchGuard Firewall Provider in India WatchGuard Next-Generation Firewall Watch Guard’s Solutions Our unique approach to network security focuses on bringing best-in-class, enterprise-grade security to any organization, regardless of size or technical expertise. Ideal for SMB, Midsize, and Distributed Enterprise organizations, our network security appliances are designed from the ground-up to focus on ease of deployment, use, and ongoing ...
Read More »After being fired, this sys-admin used VPN to hack and plant his own software and cause a $1.1 million loss to his employer
Getting a pink slip is a bad news for anybody. Some take it in the stride while others take to Twitter and Facebook to rant about it. Very few are likely to go to an extreme and cause loss to their ex-employer. Brian Johnson, 44, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US is one such system admin who didn’t lightly to his employer sacking ...
Read More »Ramnicu Valcea aka Hackerville, a town in Romania is full of hackers
ow would you react if your town or city is better known for something dark? Well, there is a town in Romania known just for its hackers. It is full of hackers and scammers so much so that it has become world famous as the global centre of cybercrimeRamnicu Valcea which is also known as “Hackerville” rose to prominence because almost ...
Read More »Security Awareness Training to Explode in Next 10 Years
Security awareness training is the most underspent sector of the cybersecurity market, but it’s poised to become a multi-billion-dollar industry in 2017.That’s according to a report from Cybersecurity Ventures, which also said that the market will top $10 billion by 2027. According to Steve Morgan, founder and editor-in-chief at Cybersecurity Ventures, Fortune 500 and Global 2000 corporations will consider security ...
Read More »FBI Is on the Hunt for 123 Cyber Criminals
At now, the FBI is trying to bring to justice about 123 people who are accused of various cyber crimes, in hope to put them to trial in the United States. Unit chief of the International cybercrime coordination cell, Steven Kelly spoke at the RSA Conference, IT News. According to a statement given by him, this number is from a ...
Read More »New “Fileless Malware” Targets Banks and Organizations Spotted in the Wild….
More than a hundred banks and financial institutions across the world have been infected with a dangerous sophisticated, memory-based malware that’s almost undetectable, researchers warned. Newly published report by the Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab indicates that hackers are targeting banks, telecommunication companies, and government organizations in 40 countries, including the US, South America, Europe and Africa, with Fileless malware ...
Read More »Secure your website From Hacking – Over 700 government websites hacked from 2013 to 2016
NEW DELHI: More than 700 websites of central ministries/departments and of state governments were hacked between 2013 and 2016, Lok Sabha was told on Tuesday. As per information reported to and tracked by the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN), which works under the IT ministry, as many as 199 websites of central ministries/departments and state governments were hacked in 2016, ...
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