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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...

EclecticIQ, the cyber threat intelligence technology provider, has announced the launch of EclecticIQ Fusion Center, a revolutionary approach to the collection, analysis, and distribution of cyber threat intelligence. Available as a managed service, EclecticIQ Fusion Center gathers the best threat intelligence from open-, community-, and over 30+ commercial sources and fuses it into optimised bundles tailor made for sectors, geographies or individual clients. Clients receive a single, standards-compliant feed that contains all the intelligence needed...

Maintel, the fast-growing provider of managed communications services, today announced the results of a study on flexible working preferences in the UK. The study polled 1,000 employed adults in the UK, ages 18 and over. The study revealed that today’s multi-generational workforce prefers flexible working to traditional office hours and location. Flexible work policies are perceived as an important workplace benefit, with 73 per cent of respondents citing the company they work for has good...