CyberSecurity World

Money is urgently needed from the Government's £860 million National Cyber Security Programme to plug big holes in the police's ability to combat cyber-crime, which is now reaching crisis levels. That's the key finding from an authoritative new  survey   by PA Consulting which finds that only 30 percent of UK police analysts believe they have the skills and tools to effectively combat cyber-crime. “The UK has reached a ‘tipping point' on cyber-crime and tackling the challenges is now urgent,” the report reads. PA Consulting finds that one-third of the 185 analysts questioned from 48 law enforcement organisations have been unable to share information about the cyber-threat, and just five percent believe they have ‘considerable knowledge' of cyber-crime. The respondents predict that the time they will spend analysing cyber-crime will treble over the next three years – yet they already have limited scope to deal with the problem, spending only 10 percent of th

DNSimple says that it was hit by a ‘massive' DDoS attack, believed to be the work of Chinese hackers, on Cyber Monday. The Florida-based company revealed on  Twitter  that it had been targeted by a volumetric DDoS attack overwhelming DDoS defences, and was working with its network provider to restore service. After first posting it was seeing a ‘system-wide' DNS outage, the firm added: “We are experiencing a massive DDoS. We are working with our network provider to mitigate it. Apologies.” In a series of posts later on Monday and early Tuesday morning, the firm revealed that it was working with its network provider to mitigate the volume of UDP traffic, including increasing service capacity. Most servers at data centres were fully operational briefly on Tuesday morning, only for attackers to return to target the US west coast data centre before ‘ramping' up DDoS attacks internationally. Cited and more on this story at SC Magazine