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Today, cybersecurity and identity management expert Intercede announces a partnership with Centrify, the leader in securing hybrid enterprises through the power of identity, to secure and manage mobile access in highly regulated industries who must comply with Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), FIPS 201-2 and NIST 800-157. Interecede’s MyID enables enterprises to replace employee passwords with more secure and convenient digital identities on smart cards.  This solution then manages the lifecycle of credentials, for...

UK start-up Cyberlytic is making innovative web application security technology, originally developed for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) and now available to SMEs to help them counter increasingly complex cyber threats. Cyberlytic’s new ‘Cyber Threat Profiler’ uses artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, including machine learning, to detect and prevent web attacks targeting websites, in a way that is both faster and more sophisticated than ever before. Until now, signature-based detection has proved insufficient to protect...

The Bart ransomware that encrypts machines without an internet connection has been analyzed by Bitdefender researchers, and victims can now download the Free Bart Ransomware Decryption tool to recover their lost data. While the ransomware was first spotted in the wild in July 2016, Bitdefender is the only security vendor to offer a decryption tool for all Bart ransomware samples. The Bart Ransomware Decryption tool can decrypt files with the “.bart.zip”, “.bart” and “.perl” extension,...

Kaspersky Lab’s researchers have discovered an emerging and alarming trend: more and more cybercriminals are turning their attention from attacks against private users to targeted ransomware attacks against businesses. At least eight groups of cybercriminals involved in encryption ransomware development and distribution have been identified. The attacks have primarily hit financial organisations worldwide. Kaspersky Lab’s experts have encountered cases where payment demands amounted to over half a million dollars. The eight identified groups include PetrWrap...

Security scans performed on 60,000 Magento websites, the most popular e-commerce platform, show that 78% are missing critical security patches, while 5% are confirmed to have payment card data harvesting malware stealing their customer details. The scans were carried out, in the last week, using Foregenix’s free online scanner, WebScan. The findings follow a number of high profile breaches of customer data over the past year, involving companies including Oracle, Cisco and Yahoo. The cyber...

Poor security awareness, coupled with an insatiable demand for mobile apps, are placing UK consumers’ identities and devices at risk. A new nationwide survey commissioned by RiskIQ of 1,000 people across the country* reveals that almost half (45 per cent) do not scrutinise the app’s details while 60 per cent never or only occasionally review the privacy policy and permissions requested by the app before downloading. Such a fast and carefree approach to mobile apps...

Today, cybersecurity and identity management expert Intercede announces a partnership with Centrify, the leader in securing hybrid enterprises through the power of identity, to secure and manage mobile access in highly regulated industries who must comply with Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), FIPS 201-2 and NIST 800-157. Interecede’s MyID enables enterprises to replace employee passwords with more secure and convenient digital identities on smart cards.  This solution then manages the lifecycle of credentials, for...

Trust is so important in the corporate world that it can make or break business deals. This is one of the findings of a recent study from Iron Mountain®, the leading storage and information management services company. The study found that the majority of business leaders see customer trust (91%) or partner trust (88%) in their organisation as valuable and 95% agree that trust is important when making a major business decision, ranking more important...

86% of financial services firms intend to increase the time and resources they spend on cybersecurity in the next year, according to new research from Duff & Phelps, the premier valuation and corporate finance advisor. The survey of nearly 200 senior financial services professionals shows that firms are preparing to implement more stringent cybersecurity measures in response to increasing regulatory scrutiny and growing pressure to protect investor information. Duff & Phelps found that two thirds...

Imperva, Inc., have announced the results of a survey of 170 security professionals taken at RSA 2017, the world’s largest security conference, exploring their experiences with ransomware. Thirty-two percent of respondents said their company had been infected with ransomware with 11 percent taking longer than a week to regain access to their systems after an attack. According to CNN, in 2016, the FBI estimated that ransomware would be a $1 billion a year crime. More...