UK: As part of an expanded 2014 schedule of European events, SANS brings world-class IT security training to Munich, Germany with two of its most popular courses for penetration testers and forensic investigators.
Madrid: Interoute has announced the opening of its new distributed data centre in Madrid, Spain. The data centre is built into Interoute’s vast pan-European network, adding a new physical location to Interoute’s unified ICT platform. The Interoute platform allows customers to build or buy as-a-service data centre architectures – be they physical, virtual or hybrid. These can be distributed and connected across countries and regions at the speed of light. This new location will enable Interoute to meet the growing demand among enterprises and service providers for connectivity, hosting and cloud services in the region.
Yesterday, U.S. retailers spoke to a U.S. Senate panel about the recent breaches. Mark Bower, VP of product management at Voltage Security writes:
"While it’s encouraging to see Target strategically embrace EMV, it’s necessary to look at mitigating threats to data that EMV unfortunately doesn't protect. EMV, aka chip and PIN in Europe or chip and signature in the US, helps reduce card cloning which was a top fraud problem in the 90’s when EMV was first specified. However, the UK Experiences over the last several years [1] clearly show that the stolen data from EMV systems can be re-purposed for fraud in non EMV and Card-Not-Present scenarios (i.e. e-commerce), resulting in a major surge in online transaction fraud; something the US needs to prepare for.
'Ol School’ email social engineering or data-entry phishing is an attack method that has been on the rise in recent months, notably employed by the Syrian Electronic Army to hack seemingly every major media outlet in the Western hemisphere, and possibly responsible for other high-profile breaches.
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