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Last week, Patrik Runald joined CBC’s Lang & O’Leary Exchange to discuss the recent surge in Canadian cybercrime. In the segment, Runald answers a series of questions on why this escalation is happening. He explains how the increase is not an accident, but rather a calculated, organized move. To avoid the severe scrutiny of security software that IP addresses in China and Eastern Europe experience, cybercriminals are moving their networks to countries like Canada that have better cyber reputations. Canadian infrastructure is being used to attack users worldwide. As a result, in the past year alone, Canada has seen a 319 percent jump in servers hosting phishing sites, a 53 percent increase in bot networks, and is now number six in the world for hosting cybercrime.
The numbers are continuously rising, and attacks are growing increasingly more advanced. Read more about the threats here. Watch the full interview here.
The BBC recently wrote an article covering the LizaMoon cyber attack, which has compromised a massive volume of websites. The scareware campaign works by redirecting victims to fake domains and prompting them to purchase phony antivirus software called the “Windows Stability Center.” Websense® is highlighted in the article for the analysis and tracking of the SQL injection attack since Websense Security Labs™ initially discovered it on March 29.
MSNBC just released an article on a malware campaign that the Websense® Security Labs™have been tracking since they discovered it on Tuesday. The campaign, dubbed “LizaMoon” by our Labs, was injected into a huge amount of web pages. The malicious code redirects users to a rogue antivirus website – individuals are told that their computers are infected with a virus that can only be removed by purchasing phony antivirus software.
Infoexecutive Canada just released a new article that features Websense’s very own David Meizlik in highlighting Websense® TRITON ™ as the first of its kind in the security product market. The article draws attention to the necessity of maximum flexibility in security products used by all types of customers so that they can have full license to use all Websense Web, Email, and Data Security solution modules “however, wherever and whenever they need.”
Even the most popular and seemingly-secure sites can fall to cyber attacks. Earlier this month the London Stock Exchange, Autotrader and other popular British sites found themselves victim to malicious booby-trapped adverts. The BBC posted an article that quotes Websense® Security Labs™ Senior Research Manager Patrik Runald in regard to the attacks – “we believe that quite a large number of sites were showing these adverts… such malvertising is reasonably common.” The rest of the article proceeds to outline Patrik's account of Websense research which shows that the malvertising mishap potentially exposed tens of thousands of victims to code that exploited multiple Windows programs, particularly Java and Adobe software.
Even the most popular and seemingly-secure sites can fall to cyber attacks. Earlier this month the London Stock Exchange, Autotrader and other popular British sites found themselves victim to malicious booby-trapped adverts.
The BBC posted an article that quotes Websense® Security Labs™ Senior Research Manager Patrik Runald in regard to the attacks – “we believe that quite a large number of sites were showing these adverts… such malvertising is reasonably common.” The rest of the article proceeds to outline Patrik's account of Websense research which shows that the malvertising mishap potentially exposed tens of thousands of victims to code that exploited multiple Windows programs, particularly Java and Adobe software.
Earlier this year, we spoke with the BBC about the noticeable decrease in email spam levels as a warning sign of spammers moving toward new outlets like the social web to target individuals and companies. Our assumptions proved to be a hot topic at the DEMO Spring 2011 conference last month, as multiple companies expressed their growing concerns over spammers moving to outlets like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to launch attacks. In this Computerworld feature, Websense®defends Facebook, our very own CTO, Dan Hubbard, is quoted as he launched Websense TRITON™ Defensio™ at DEMO. Defensio helps individuals and corporations alike defend their pages by scanning all Facebook content, such as wall posts, photos, videos, comments and links for malicious or inappropriate content and spam. In addition, he introduced the "Scan My Page!" function, a quick and easy way for organizations to inspect their Facebook content. “This is a really easy way to see if your page is infected by something.” –Dan Hubbard, CTO Websense launched new capabilities for Defensio for Facebook at DEMO, enhancing your organization’s ability to protect your brand reputation and Facebook page from malicious content. You can check out the video of our presentation here. This is fundamentally important as the threat landscape of the social web grows increasingly menacing to so many.
Earlier this year, we spoke with the BBC about the noticeable decrease in email spam levels as a warning sign of spammers moving toward new outlets like the social web to target individuals and companies. Our assumptions proved to be a hot topic at the DEMO Spring 2011 conference last month, as multiple companies expressed their growing concerns over spammers moving to outlets like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to launch attacks.
In this Computerworld feature, Websense®defends Facebook, our very own CTO, Dan Hubbard, is quoted as he launched Websense TRITON™ Defensio™ at DEMO. Defensio helps individuals and corporations alike defend their pages by scanning all Facebook content, such as wall posts, photos, videos, comments and links for malicious or inappropriate content and spam. In addition, he introduced the "Scan My Page!" function, a quick and easy way for organizations to inspect their Facebook content.
“This is a really easy way to see if your page is infected by something.” –Dan Hubbard, CTO
Websense launched new capabilities for Defensio for Facebook at DEMO, enhancing your organization’s ability to protect your brand reputation and Facebook page from malicious content. You can check out the video of our presentation here. This is fundamentally important as the threat landscape of the social web grows increasingly menacing to so many.
After DEMO Spring 2011, we received some great feedback on Websense® TRITON™ Defensio™. Our “Scan my Facebook page!” button is featured in an article earlier this month by Ubergizmo, which displays an awesome screenshot of the scan in action. The combination of our ACE and ThreatSeeker Network® technologies provides invaluable user-generated content analysis. With Defensio, protection happens automatically in real-time – long gone will be the days of tediously and manually deleting malicious links on your page. Check out Defensio here and Scan Your Page today!
“There is no question that the threat landscape is evolving at a rapid pace… Furthermore, cyber-perpetrators will readily pounce on exploitable gaps in legacy security products… what Websense is accomplishing with its TRITON architecture is providing businesses with an extensible and adaptable mechanism to fight fire with fire” – Michael Suby, VP Research at Stratecast
CRN recently released an article that calls attention to the predicament organizations are finding themselves in: as they leverage social media, mobility, and cloud computing, companies are realizing that their traditional protection methods are ill-equipped to adapt to growing threats. CRN outlines our launch of Websense® TRITON ™ as arming partners and customers with a new breed of content security, quoting David Meizlik:
“They need a blended set of security technologies for blended styles of threats,” he said, adding that Websense’s goal is “keeping bad content out and good content secure.”
Today, in a Forbes Q&A article, Websense CIO Jim Haskin discusses the current threat landscape and how to minimize enterprise risk.
As connectivity increases, businesses worldwide are battling to keep their data safe. Jim discusses the latest attack vectors, challenges associated with the insider threat and tips for safeguarding data. Below are two Q&A excerpts from the article:
“Is the number of attacks rising?
They're definitely going up. The attack vector has moved to the Web and the speed of change is phenomenal. A few years ago you'd identify a threat to create a signature that would get distributed to all your customers. Those signature-based threats don't last very long anymore. It may only be up for a day, or even an hour, and then there's a new threat out there. Speed of response to threats is absolutely critical.”
“What's the best practice here?
It still comes back to the right set of policies, education and tools to enforce those. But there's a world of difference between discussing it after the fact and catching it in the act. If you tell a manager there were certain violations in their department over the last month, it will generate some activity and might decrease 10% of the leaks. But if you're communicating to the employee that this action by you caused a security breach for the whole department, you'll get a completely different kind of response. There's a way to tie policy adherence to individual performance and learning. If a piece of data is being sent to somewhere it shouldn't go and it comes back to the individual, that keeps it from happening again.”
You can read more about the Websense Data Security Suite here. It accurately prevents data loss, secures business processes and manages compliance and risk by identifying confidential data, monitoring its use, discovering where it’s stored, and protecting it, on the network and at the endpoint.
Also, click here for details about the Websense ThreatSeeker Network, which allows us to provide customers with the most advanced content classification, data identification, and security filtering available to mitigate risks to customer data and productivity. The network uses more than 50 million real-time data collecting systems to parse one billion pieces of content daily in real-time.
