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Internationally recognized security researcher Kyle Wilhoit is joining DomainTools to lead its threat research team. Wilhoit will spearhead DomainTools' efforts to do primary research on DNS-related exploits, investigate current cyber threats, and explore attack origins and threat actors. Wilhoit brings more than a decade of experience leading research teams to deliver timely and organized threat intelligence to internal and external customers. Before joining DomainTools, Wilhoit was a threat researcher for Trend Micro, where he was responsible for identifying,...

  McDonald's has been caught by Dutch security expert Tijme Gommers running an insecure website that could lead to users passwords being stolen.  According to Gommers, by abusing an insecure cryptographic storage vulnerability (link) and a reflected server cross-site-scripting vulnerability (link) it is possible to steal and decrypt the password from a McDonald's user. Besides that, other personal details like the user's name, address & contact details can be stolen too. Security experts share their views on...

Technology companies should encourage a culture of innovation within their organisation to retain their most skilled staff, says Peter Groucutt, managing director of disaster recovery service provider Databarracks.   Recent research from Investors in People, the employment standards agency, has revealed that three-quarters of IT professionals could switch jobs in 2017. Confidence in the tech job marketplace is up six percent from last year. For those seeking a new challenge, better pay is the main...

Gartner today has announced that 20% of organisations will be using Smartphones instead of traditional physical access cards by 2020. This will rise from the 5% of organisations that used smartphones for access in 2016. In 2016, less than 5 per cent of organisations used smartphones to enable access to offices and other premises. By 2020, Gartner, Inc. said that 20 per cent of organisations will use smartphones in place of traditional physical access cards....

Context Information Security continues to strengthen its new Advisory Team with the appointment of Paul Martin CBE as Strategy Adviser.   Prior to joining Context, Mr Martin was the Director of Security for Parliament for three and a half years, with responsibility for the physical, personnel and cyber security of both the House of Commons and Lords. For the previous 26 years he was a UK government official working in the national security arena, with...

Montreal, Canada and Iasi, Romania are now home to two new research and development offices for cybersecurity leader ESET. Following a successful year of growth, with the company opening a sales and distribution office in the UK and expanding in Germany with the Munich office, ESET is now making further investments into research talent across the globe. The increased capacity will enable the company to support new services like ESET Threat Intelligence while improving responsiveness...

BMC, the global leader in IT solutions for the digital enterprise, in association with Forbes Insights, the strategic research and thought leadership practice of Forbes Media, today released results from its second annual security survey revealing that 69% of senior security and IT executives say digital transformation is forcing fundamental changes to existing cybersecurity strategies. Financial and customer information, brand reputation, intellectual property, and employee information were also listed as critical assets to protect against...

Netskope, the leader in cloud security, today announced the release of the January 2017 Netskope Cloud Report™ on enterprise cloud service usage and trends. According to the report, enterprise cloud service usage continues to rise, and despite the best efforts of IT, unsanctioned cloud service usage remains a problem as half of all users of sanctioned cloud storage services also have a personal instance of the same cloud service. As the deadline for compliance approaches,...

Seven cyber security start-ups have been selected to join the new GCHQ Cyber Accelerator, powered by Wayra UK, which officially launches today. The accelerator, part of the Government's new Cheltenham Cyber Innovation Centre, will help keep the UK secure online, enable companies to produce the next generation of cyber security systems, and boost the country’s £22 billion cyber security sector, which currently contributes around £2 billion a year in exports to the UK economy. The accelerator is...

The total value of reported fraud in 2016 hit a five-year high, increasing 31.5% to £2.0bn, according to new analysis by accountancy and business advisory firm BDO LLP. Despite the hike, the latest BDO FraudTrack analysis, which examines reported fraud cases over £50,000 in the UK, finds that the number of reported cases fell slightly (504 in 2016 compared to 519 cases last year). This means the average value of fraud rose 35.4% to a...