Sunday, 12 October 2025

UK: Dr Eric Cole, one of the most prominent instructors at the upcoming SANS London 2013 InfoSec training event, warns that organisations need to build capabilities and be prepared for the inevitable information security breach. “There is a level of frustration across the world as organisations spend ever increasing amounts of money on information security technology yet still get breached,” says Cole. “The likelihood is that you will be compromised -even with this vast amount of spending and layers of systems. Now we need to focus more on finding the attackers lurking on hijacked systems and minimising the frequency and impact of each incident.”

 

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New channel partnership expands ExtraHop’s European presence, provides expert consultancy, sales and implementation services to streamline IT operational intelligence

United Kingdom, London: ExtraHop, the global leader in real-time wire data analytics for IT operational intelligence, has selected SMT, a specialist in IT management, as its first certified partner serving the Benelux region. With offices in the Netherlands and Belgium, SMT works with over 100 large clients, including major public sector and financial services organisations, to implement solutions that improve the performance, availability, and security of their IT architectures. As one of Splunk’s largest European partners, SMT brings deep expertise in IT operations analytics to its relationship with ExtraHop.

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FireEye researchers have discovered a rapidly growing class of mobile threats represented by a popular ad library affecting apps with over 200 million downloads in total. This ad library, anonymized as "Vulna", is aggressive at collecting sensitive data and able to perform dangerous operations such as downloading and running new components on demand. Vulna is also plagued with various classes of vulnerabilities that enable attackers to turn Vulna's aggressive behaviors against users. FireEye has coined the term “vulnaggressive” to describe this class of vulnerable and aggressive characteristics. Most vulnaggresive libraries are proprietary and it's hard for app developers to know their underlying security issues. Legitimate apps using vulnaggresive libraries present serious threats for enterprise customers. FireEye has informed both Google and the vendor of Vulna about the security issues and they are actively addressing it.

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