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Cyber risks associated with energy technology are high on the agenda for UK businesses with two-thirds (65%) significantly concerned about the issue and over half (51%) worried that their client data isn’t handled securely enough by their energy supplier, according to the latest PwC B2B Energy Survey. This ongoing concern comes at a time when energy suppliers are delving ever deeper into smart energy technology for both corporate and domestic markets, with businesses actively weighing...

In the realm of cyber security, it is no secret that the world is currently suffering from a shortage of expertise, with the void between demand and supply widening at an alarming rate. In the UK, it has become a serious problem, with recruitment site Indeed highlighting the issue by publishing research that shows that the number of cyber security roles advertised was the third highest globally. The worrying statistic is that the employer demand...

Positive Technologies has discovered a serious vulnerability in GMV’s Checker ATM Security. The defect allows an attacker to remotely run code on a targeted ATM to increase his privileges in the system, infect it and steal money.  Checker ATM Security protects ATMs by enforcing a wide range of restrictions in software: whitelisting with Application Control to block unauthorized applications, restricting attempts to connect peripheral devices – such as a keyboard or mouse, limiting network connections...

Robotic devices and automation platforms — which are similar in many ways — seem to be exploding in the IoT market, and for good reason. The idea behind these systems is to automate or carry out basic tasks so we have more time to do the important stuff. But a new study from authors at IOActive, reveals that robots are just like many other technologies that exist today — they are not inherently secure and...

The General Data Protection Regulation will come into force on the 25th of May 2018 and will require organisations to comply with a host of strict data protection rules for processing data of EU residents, or face substantial fines as a result of non-compliance. The regulation is intended to establish one single set of rules across Europe, which EU policy makers believe will make it simpler and cheaper for organisations to do business across the...

According to Kaspersky Lab’s “Spam and phishing in Q1 2017” report, the world's largest spam botnet, Necurs, demonstrated a relative decline in its fraudulent mailshot traffic. In December 2016, Kaspersky Lab’s spam traps detected over 35 million fraudulent mailshots but in March 2017 that number fell to almost 7,000. The Kaspersky Lab spam report also identified the following trends in the first quarter of 2017: Global share of spam amounted to almost 56 per cent...

Concerns about security breaches have been revealed as the biggest fear among consumers when it comes to deciding whether to download a retail app, according to research. Three quarters (74%) of shoppers said they were most concerned about the security of their information. As well as being worried about the security of their data, consumers also wanted to know how their information would be used once they had provided it to retailers through an app....

With connected devices from kettles and refrigerators to heating and cooling and fitness tracking devices, IoT has certainly taken the consumer world by storm. But what does all of this hype mean for businesses? It is predicted that the average business expects to be dealing with 7,000 IoT devices over the next 18 months with smaller businesses expected to have more, which has increased the number of opportunities and entry points for cyber criminals to...

The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will have a global impact when it goes into effect on 25th May, 2018, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner predicts that by the end of 2018, more than 50 per cent of companies affected by the GDPR will not be in full compliance with its requirements. "The GDPR will affect not only EU-based organisations, but many data controllers and processors outside the EU as well," said Bart Willemsen,...

Major UK businesses are leaving themselves vulnerable to the most common form of cyber-attack, research by UK-based cyber security firm Glasswall Solutions has found. 58% of office workers among 1,000 employees surveyed at mid-to-large UK businesses revealed they usually open email attachments from unknown senders, leaving businesses open to breaches from documents carrying malicious exploits hidden inside common file-types. Despite the widely-publicised growing threat from social engineering, where hackers create emails that look as if...