Kamel Heus, Regional Director, Northern, Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa, Centrify explains he explains how threat actors are relentlessly targeting end users for their credentials to penetrate corporate networks and businesses must be proactive in their cyber security hygiene measures.Read More…
Energy is overtaking banking and finance as a target for cyber-criminals in the Middle East, yet companies in the sector are leaving themselves significantly more open to a successful attack, leading international experts have told the Security in Energy conference in Abu Dhabi.Read More…
Highlighting the change in cyber-criminals’ focus from attacking technical vulnerabilities to now exploiting user behaviour, SANS Institute, in its recent survey titled ‘SANS 2017 Endpoint Risks and Protections’, found that browser-based attacks and social engineering are now the two most powerful techniques targeting organizations. Both techniques prey upon users asRead More…
Cyber criminals revealed new levels of ambition in 2016. The year was marked by extraordinary attacks, including multi-million dollar virtual bank heists and overt attempts to sabotage organizations by state-sponsored groups including Shamoon, and record-breaking DDoS attacks that were carried out by infecting IoT devices. This infographic by Symantec revealsRead More…
