Saturday, 26 September 2026

Cybersecurity and geopolitics are intertwined

What is the relation between growing security spending, increasing hacking attacks and falling economy?

Have you ever thought how the global economy and geopolitics influence cybersecurity and cybercrime? Some people may think these are two completely different domains, however they are strongly and permanently related.

An interesting example came up during our recent security awareness project at a large, Central European financial institution. The institution was concerned about a significant increase in hacking attempts that involved social engineering and spear phishing campaigns.

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New Australian Threat Analysis Center and Sales Office Extends Reach into the Asia Pacific Japan Region and Completes the Company’s “Follow the Sun” Global Threat Analysis Capability

Dallas, TX: iSIGHT Partners, Inc. has announced that it has further expanded the business within the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region. The company has opened both a threat analysis center and sales office in Sydney, Australia. The move enables iSIGHT Partners to locally support a rapidly growing list of APJ clients and completes the company’s 24x7 “follow the sun” model designed to provide “always on” threat analysis and access to its experts for a marquis list of customers operating globally.

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Skyscape's customers to benefit from savings of 50% per year, with reductions applied retrospectively from 1st August 2015

London: Skyscape Cloud Services Limited has announced further price cuts to its accredited cloud solutions. The company's customers will now benefit from a reduction of up to 50 percent for additional storage provided as part of Skyscape's Compute-as-a-Service offering, across both its Assured OFFICIAL and Elevated OFFICIAL cloud platforms, with reductions backdated to 1st August 2015.

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  1. Alert Logic launches Cloud-Native Vulnerability and Configuration Management Solution on Amazon Web Services
  2. Carphone Warehouse hackers get access to bank details of 2.4 mil customers
  3. Varonis positioned for its completeness of vision and ability to execute
  4. Russia's hack of Pentagon's unclassified email system
  5. Tripwire uncovers significant security flaws in popular smart home automation hubs
  6. Carphone Warehouse hackers get access to bank details of 2.4 mil customers
  7. What Can We Learn From Hacking Team's Leaked Emails?
  8. Imperva hacker intelligence initiative uncovers new “Man In the Cloud” attacks
  9. Proofpoint TAP Social discover closes the IT knowledge gap on social media threats
  10. Russia's "sophisticated cyber" attack against Pentagon's
  11. Proofpoint unveils TAP Mobile Defense to secure organizations from malicious mobile applications
  12. Civil Servants to take part in ‘Fall for the Fallen’ to raise funds for Blesma
  13. Let's preserve the dignity of the Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria
  14. Context researchers warn of compromises to corporate networks via Windows Updates at Black Hat USA
  15. Computop and ACI Worldwide partner to offer eCommerce merchants integrated online payments and fraud solution



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