Following on from yesterday’s chat with iFORCE’s Ben Harris, we speak to Guy Kariv about Infinidat’s role in helping companies to combat cyber crime and the importance of having a robust storage strategy. We also get his number one tip for anybody putting together or enhancing their cyber crime protection. Informed Sauce is hosting an […]
Speaking at the recent Cipher Brief Annual Threat Conference, head of GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) Sir Jeremy Fleming revealed that he wants to actively go after cyber criminals and, where relevant, their state sponsors or supporters, to make the practice less profitable and therefore less appealing. “We have to be clear on the red lines […]
Ahead of 2 December’s cyber crime and ransomware awareness session in London, iFORCE’s Ben Harris tells us a bit about his early career, which gave him a valuable education in effectively fighting modern cyber crime. We also learn about his ‘whole force’ approach and his number one tip for anybody who feels less than prepared […]
Insurer Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) recently described ransomware as a “pandemic” that is spreading rapidly around the world that is being driven by three factors the emergence of ready-made and very affordable (as little as US$40 a month) ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS), offered by groups such as REvil and Darkside – it even comes with support! […]
After an incident that began on Friday and into Saturday, when a Tesco spokesperson confirmed that hackers attempted to “to interfere with our systems”, things appear to have returned to normal at the retail giant. During the outage shoppers were unable to order goods or track deliveries. A queuing system is now in place as […]
Perhaps the most surprising statistics to come out of a new CISOs Connect report, Ransomware In Focus, available here, are that only about 60% of respondents felt they had good data backup and recovery technology, while around a quarter had something in place but wanted to upgrade to something better, and just under 16% had […]