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• Seattle cyber attacker arrested after hits on Aussie businesses

  ​A 37-year-old Seattle man has been arrested in connection with serious offences relating to distributed denial of service attacks that hit Australian businesses in 2015.

• Cisco buying Lancope for $450M

  Network analysis tools bolster Security Everywhere initiative

• How to prepare for and respond to a cyber attack

  Cybercriminals are constantly looking for new ways to bypass security measures. In a survey conducted by the SANS Institute on the behalf of <a href="https://www.guidancesoftware.com/">Guidance Software</a>, 56% of respondents assumed they have been breached or will be soon, compared with 47% last year.

• Adobe failed to adequately protect customers' info: Privacy Commissioner

  Adobe failed to adequately protect customer information from hackers, the Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim, has found.

• Anonymous cyberattack on Israel finds disputed impact

  Although the hactivist group Anonymous had declared its supporters would attack Israel on April 7 and "erase Israel from cyberspace," the damage from Anonymous so far appears to be minimal to Israeli government and bank websites that are among the main targets. However, now Israeli hactivists are fired up and counter-striking at Palestinian, Iranian and Turkish website targets.

• Cisco issues 7 “high priority” security advisories; Firepower, IOS and ASA issues among them

  Cisco had a pretty large dump of security advisories today – seven “high priority” and one “critical” – impacting a variety of products.

• Cisco runs out two “critical” security warnings for IOS, Apache Struts (again)

  Cisco today issued two “critical” security advisories, one for Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE Software, the other for the ongoing discovery of problems with Apache Struts2

• U.S. readies sanctions against China for cyber-spying

  As the Obama administration prepares to impose sanctions on Chinese companies for economic cyber-espionage, experts question whether the penalties will have significant effect

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  Gaining the upper hand in today's cyber security battle

  Threat intelligence transforms the technical analysis required to identify the symptoms of a cyber attack - such as malware and security events - into an understanding of who the attackers are and what their motives and capabilities may be.