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A recent survey has revealed that over 25 per cent of British people do not check on the security measures in an app before downloading it, despite the fact that almost 30 per cent believe hackers are likely to use shopping apps such as Amazon or eBay to target their devices. While this demonstrates an increased awareness of the risks attached to app usage, the fact that users still have not grasped the severity of...

Kaspersky Lab’s experts have studied the DDoS services available on the black market and determined just how far this illegal business has advanced, as well as the extent of its popularity and profitability. The worrying news is that arranging an attack costs as little as $7 an hour, while the targeted company can end up losing thousands, if not millions, of dollars.  The level of service involved when arranging a DDoS attack on the black...

The connected world in which we live could suffer a catastrophic blackout unless critical infrastructure is secured, warns Eugene Kaspersky founder and CEO, Kaspersky Lab. The ramifications of a blackout, like the one recently experienced in Ukraine, are deep reaching. During a blackout none of the devices connected to the lauded Internet of Things would be able to ‘talk’ to each other. By a cyberattack on critical infrastructure taking control of a country’s power grid,...

Hackers are threatening to wipe out a large cache of data from 300 Million Apple accounts unless a ransom is paid. Labelling themselves as the 'Turkish Crime Family', the group or individual is demanding that £75,000 is to be paid in popular crypto-currency Bitcoin, or £100,000 worth of iTunes gift cards in exchange for deleting the data on the Apple accounts. The hackers have provided screenshots of email communication between themselves and Apple's security team...

DDoS attacks are a greater security threat to businesses in 2017 than ever before, and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) need to do something about it according to a new survey of IT security professionals and network operators released today from Corero Network Security. The annual study, the Corero DDoS Impact Survey 2017, polled top technology decision makers and security experts at the 2017 RSA Security Conference last month in San Francisco, CA. This year’s survey...

Sonatype, the leader in software supply chain automation, has announced the results of its 2017 DevSecOps Community Survey which was conducted in February.  There were 2,292 IT professionals that participated in the online survey which revealed that mature development organisations ensure automated security is woven into their DevOps practice, early, everywhere, and at scale. Analysis of responses also found that IT organisations continue to struggle with breaches as nearly a 50% increase was recorded between Sonatype’s...

The government’s acknowledgement that the escalating threat of ransomware attacks are a question of “when, not if” for UK organisations was not accompanied by sufficient advice on recovery, in its new report ‘The cyber threats to UK businesses’. This is according to Peter Groucutt, managing director of disaster recovery service provider Databarracks. Last week, The National Crime Agency (NCA) and National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) launched its first joint report into ‘The cyber threat to...

Neustar, Inc., a trusted, neutral provider of real-time information services, today released findings from new research into how UK businesses are provisioning domain name system (DNS) servers and services, finding that 92 percent have limited visibility of the impact DNS performance is having on their internet users and visitors to their online resources. Although DNS is a fundamental utility supporting the internet and relied upon by all businesses, visibility is hampered by complexity with 45...

In early January, the FTC sued D-Link, a manufacturer of home wireless routers and webcams, for failing to adequately secure its devices, which led to several hundred thousand devices being compromised by cyberattacks. One of these botnet attacks resulted in a major DDoS attack on the internet service provider DYN and took down thousands of websites, costing businesses millions of dollars in a single afternoon. This lawsuit has brought to light several important issues related...

A recent survey by Ultima, a leading provider of on-premise and cloud IT infrastructure and managed service solutions, has once again highlighted the urgent need for UK business to take cyber security more seriously. The survey found that 65% of companies don’t have any security solutions deployed onto their mobile devices, and 68% of companies do not have an awareness programme aimed at employees of all levels to ensure they are cyber aware. In addition...