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Cyberwarfare Threat To Nuclear, Banking and Financial System
Gold Seek The U.S. had been demanding that other countries refrain from engaging in cyber warfare techniques until it emerged that the U.S. itself, along with Israel, had deployed the extremely destructive virus against Iran. The NSA had been authorised to … Cyberwarfare Threat To Websites and Financial System |
Cyber adAPT, a startup springing from DARPA funded research, is shipping its first products that detect network compromises and gather data that can be used later for forensic analysis of breaches.
The company’s appliance-based platform monitors network traffic looking for suspicious communications that might indicate a breach and correlates it with threat feeds to improve its accuracy.
The company just landed a $ 4.1 million Series A round from Alvin Fund, Granite Point Capital Partners, Griffin Fund II, and Fundamental Capital Management. It started work about 15 months ago and grew out of Irvine Sensors, which had done research funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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IBM has joined an increasing number of vendors who are pushing for real-time cybersecurity information sharing among private and public organizations, researchers and other network defenders.
On Thursday, the company opened up over 700 terabytes of data about vulnerabilities, attacks and other threats through a new cloud-based threat intelligence sharing platform called IBM X-Force Exchange. Other organizations can use the platform to share or confirm their own data, so they can more efficiently respond to security incidents.
The information that IBM made available through the X-Force Exchange includes one of the largest catalogs of vulnerabilities in the world, according to the company. The information also includes threat information based on monitoring of more than 15 billion security events per day, malware threat intelligence from a network of 270 million endpoints, and threat information based on more than 25 billion Web pages and images.
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Mobile Threat Monday: Please Stop Installing Android Flashlight Apps
PC Magazine Security experts often use free flashlight apps when trying to explain some nuance of mobile security because there are so many of these apps out there, and many of them request far, far more of your personal information than necessary to illuminate a … |