cyber security

Cybercrime has become a well-financed global industry. Cybercriminals are very resourceful: they are increasingly operating as syndicates, conducting research and buying services from each other. In addition, says technology writer Bob Emmerson, threat surfaces are growing in line with the billions of connected users and devices.

The final day of this year’s IP EXPO Europe began with an educational and inspiring keynote from James Gosling, chief software architect at Liquid Robotics and the creator of programming language Java.

GSGF published a report on the cyber security issues in smart meters and the associated advance metering infrastructure.

Europe’s leading trade associations for the telecommunications and the automotive sectors announced that they intend to launch a large-scale, pre-deployment project to test connected and automated driving at the EU level.

Salaries for IT professionals in big data have risen by almost 8% in just a year, according to the latest Tech Cities Job Watch report, from a global provider of professional IT  resourcing, Experis.

Infotecs, announced its participation in Security of Things World, 27-28th June 2016, in Berlin. Infotecs together with its partner cloudKleyer will present the ViPNet cyber security solutions encompassing Mobile, Cloud, Internet of Things and Industrial Security.

The Internet of Things has come a long way in the five years since the first IoT Day in 2011. But, there is a darker side to its success, with thousands of high-profile hacks having been carried out on connected devices.

Every day there seems to be a new malware threat that we hear about, from remotely controlling cars and medical equipment, to attacks on well-known security vendors such as Kaspersky Lab and Bitdefender.

Event date: September 17-18, 2015 Berlin, Germany 2nd Annual European Forum on Cyber Security and SCADA for Power and Utilities Industry brings together leading IT security experts and strategic innovators from European leading Power and Utility companies to exchange the knowledge, expertise, challenges and best practices.

Washington, DC. March 12, 2015 — A report issued today by the US Department for Homeland Security says that in 2014 the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) responded to 245 incidents reported by asset owners and industry partners.

According to a report from the United States Government Accountability Office, The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team reported a 782% increase in cyber incidents from 2006-2012. As this number increases cyber security companies are coming under pressure to create products and tools that not only defend against potential threats, but also assist recovery where an

According to several IoT industry analysts, IT security professionals are not confident that they can prevent cyber-attacks on the Internet of Things. Not only do companies still need to get their data security houses in order, the market for data security products is frustratingly being described by one analyst firm as “immature”. Jeremy Cowan reports.