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A recent global study from Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC), a world leader in cyber security, reveals that U.K. CISOs still fail to grasp the security risks their organisations face due to the rampant use of unsanctioned cloud applications. From popular productivity apps to free file transfer services, cloud apps are becoming increasingly popular within organisations. However, many of them are unsanctioned and downloaded without the knowledge or approval of the IT team. In the U.K., CISOs...

Tripwire, Inc., a leading global provider of security and compliance solutions for enterprises and industrial organizations, today released findings from research investigating the dangers of turning over web development to an unqualified third party. Specifically, the research revealed that websites developed by “budget” developers, without portfolios or references, tend to be plagued with critical security failures. For this project, The Tripwire Vulnerability and Exposure Research Team (VERT) took on a non-technical persona and hired nearly...

With the tactics of cybercriminals getting ever more sophisticated, and with regulatory pressures also mounting, financial enterprises are up against increasing hurdles when it comes to future-proofing their ATMs, Point of Sale systems and Point of Service machines. To help these organisations, Kaspersky Lab has released a new generation of its Kaspersky Embedded Systems Security. This targeted enterprise-grade solution provides advanced protection for a variety of embedded systems involved in highly sensitive financial operations, while...

Imperva, Inc. (NASDAQ: IMPV), committed to protecting business-critical data and applications in the cloud and on-premises, today announced CounterBreach 2.0 with a new algorithm to automatically place individuals and their cross-functional peers into “virtual” working groups based on interactions with enterprise files in order to identify unusual user access patterns. This new Dynamic Peer Group Analysis algorithm proves an intelligent approach to permissions management that helps protect data against insider threats. The new machine learning algorithm in...

Rand Merchant Investment Holdings (JSE:RMI) through AlphaCode, RMI’s innovation hub for fintech entrepreneurs and Nedbank Private Equity (“NPE”) through its private equity investment vehicle, BoE Private Equity Investments, have each acquired minority shareholdings in Entersekt in a multi-million dollar transaction. Entersekt is a Stellenbosch-based innovator that has developed world-class push-based authentication and app security technology. The capital injection will be used to fund international expansion and research and development. All regulatory approvals have been obtained,...

The greatest DDoS risk for organisations is the barrage of short, low volume attacks which mask more serious network intrusions, according to the latest DDoS Trends and Analysis report from Corero Network Security (LSE: CNS), a leading provider of real-time DDoS defense solutions.  According to new Corero research, which highlights DDoS attack attempts against its customers, short, frequent, low-volume DDoS attacks continue to dominate. Despite several headline-dominating, high-volume DDoS attacks over the past year, the...

Breaches of UK data protection laws during 2016 attracted thirty-five fines totalling £3,245,500 - almost double the 2015 total (18). Now with just under a year to go until the biggest change in privacy laws for over 20 years, UK organisations risk even larger fines if they fail to ensure compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). PwC analysed the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) data protection enforcement actions over the past five years,...

The hunt is on to find the UK’s best cyber talent to represent the country in the prestigious European Cyber Security Challenge competition later this year. Cyber Security Challenge UK is looking for 10 candidates; aged 14-25, that have an outstanding aptitude for codebreaking, social engineering and digital forensics to compete against the best talent in Europe. And this year, the rules have changed. Young industry professionals are invited to take part in the competition, as well as budding amateurs. This year’s competition will take place in...

 ZoneFox, a world-class security platform that effectively combats the growing issue of insider threats to businesses through user behaviour analytics and machine learning, today launches its latest product version, ‘ZoneFox 3.3’. It centres around a specialist feature known as ZoneFox Compliance Reporting, which has been specifically designed to assist businesses with some of the key requirements they must follow in order to become and remain compliant with the impending General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as...

This week saw thousands of private photos leaked online, following the hack of a Lithuanian cosmetic surgery clinic. The cybercriminals, who have dubbed themselves the ‘Tsar Team’, have leaked images they claim come directly from the Grozio Chirurgija clinic services. This follows the group holding the images, many of which were sensitive in nature, to ransom. Dozens of people approached local law enforcement to report that they were being blackmailed by the hackers; after failing...