McAfee Labs Sees Criminals “Infect and Collect” in Cryptocurrency Mining Surge

Cryptocurrency Mining and Cryptojacking Offer Cybercriminals Lower Risk, Higher Efficacy, Ease of Monetization of Efforts; Adding Passive Exploitation to Portolio of Ransomware Extortion, Data Breach Theft, and Fraud McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, today released its McAfee Labs Threats Report: June 2018, examining the growth and trends of new malware, ransomware, and other threats in Q1 2018. McAfee Labs saw on average five new threat samples every second, including growth in cryptojacking and other cryptocurrency mining malware, and notable campaigns demonstrating a deliberate drive to technically improve upon the most sophisticate established attacks of 2017. “There were new revelations this … Continue reading McAfee Labs Sees Criminals “Infect and Collect” in Cryptocurrency Mining Surge

Lebanon’s Largest Mall Selects R&M for High-Speed Cabling Across Premises

ABC is the most prominent mall and department store in Lebanon that offers a unique shopping, dining, leisure and entertainment experience.With a more than 75-year heritage built on the tradition of innovation. ABC was keen to ensure the very best shopping experience for customers at its newest mall in Lebanon, ABC Verdun. For this reason, ABC Verdun has invested in a state-of-the-art cabling infrastructure from R&M. This network serves as the platform on which critical mall services including internet, point-of-sales systems, CCTV, digital signage, and the Building Management System (BMS) now run.  ABC was the first retailer to introduce the … Continue reading Lebanon’s Largest Mall Selects R&M for High-Speed Cabling Across Premises

Fortinet Introduces Machine Learning Capabilities to its FortiWeb Web Application Firewall for Advanced Behavioral Threat Detection

Two-step AI-based Machine Learning Improves Attack Detection Accuracy to Create a Nearly “Set and Forget” Web Application Firewall News Summary Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced the latest version of its FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF)software release 6.0, making it the only major WAF security vendor to use machine learning for behavioral-based threat detection in web applications. The new innovations to FortiWeb provide a dramatic increase in detecting web application threats with nearly 100 percent accuracy. Increased threat detection accuracy enables faster response times for “set and forget” automated blocking, eliminating … Continue reading Fortinet Introduces Machine Learning Capabilities to its FortiWeb Web Application Firewall for Advanced Behavioral Threat Detection

Make Data the Center of Your IT Infrastructure Strategy

Author: Christian Putz, Director, Emerging, EMEA, Pure Storage   We’ve been talking about data growth for the past two decades, but data is accelerating like never before. In fact, 90% of the world’s data was created in the past two years alone. One of the biggest changes is that most of the data being created today is generated by machines, and not by humans using applications. Compounding this problem is that this data has gravity—if it’s created at the edge of your network or in your factory, you may not be able to move it to a central data center … Continue reading Make Data the Center of Your IT Infrastructure Strategy