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 Agari, a leading cybersecurity company, today announced the release of a new book by Agari Chief Scientist Markus Jakobsson and other cybersecurity thought leaders, Understanding Social Engineering Based Scams. The book describes the increased use of social engineering for email scams, and offers tools and techniques to identify these trends, as well as countermeasures to prevent these attacks. Examples of social engineering attacks, which are typically launched via email, include phishing, spear phishing and Business...

Menlo Security, a pioneer of malware isolation, today announced the availability of its State of The Web 2016 report. The surprising results reveal that nearly half (46%) of the Internet’s top 1 million web sites, as ranked by Alexa, are risky.  This is largely due to vulnerable software running on web servers and on underlying ad network domains. The results are significant because risky sites have never been easier to exploit, and traditional security products...

As far as cybersecurity goes, we bid farewell to a year replete with high-profile attacks that have jeopardised large corporations and private users. Ransomware attacks from Petya, Trojans such as Gugi for Android, the spyware Pegasus, PunkeyPOS, or large-scale attacks targeting PoS (Point of Sale) terminals as well as the recent DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks have affected large organizations and international communication networks. PandaLabs, Panda Security’s anti-malware laboratory, presents a list of what...

Many, if not most, of the data breaches throughout 2016 could have been avoided with the correct people, process, technology and most importantly culture in place. This is the opinion of Phil Bindley, CTO of Cloud Services Provider (CSP) The Bunker, who argues that the biggest security threat for organisations in 2017 will be a complacency towards good security hygiene.  According to the 2016 Data Protection and Breach Readiness Guide, 93 per cent of breaches...

New research* released today has revealed that CEOs are over confident when it comes to their cybersecurity approach, and are potentially leaving themselves at risk of attack due to outdated and unrealistic strategies. RedSeal, the cybersecurity analytics company, today released the results of a global CEO study. The results – based on the insights of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of 200 global companies- have demonstrated what RedSeal is calling “CEO Cyber-Naivety”, where more than 80...

Call in the Colonel! Popular fast food chain KFC has warned Colonel's Club loyalty scheme members in the UK that its website has been targeted and multiple accounts may have been compromised. About 1.2 million members of the Colonel's Club, which allows customers to collect Chicken Stamps and "earn their way to free food rewards," recently received an email about the breach. "Our monitoring systems have found a small number of Colonel's Club accounts may...

UK CEOs are concerned that EU privacy rules will impact their ability to do effective business if UK privacy rules are not aligned once Brexit takes place, according to research by KPMG. In a survey of 100 UK CEOs, KPMG found that nearly 60 percent believe their ability to do business will be hindered once Brexit takes place if UK privacy rules are not aligned to the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR...

UK organisations are paralysed by the choice of security technologies available to them, but are failing to maintain the basic fundamentals. This is according to Peter Groucutt, managing director at Databarracks. Groucutt has significant concerns about the vulnerability of UK organisations against a growing cyber threat landscape: “Cyber threats are now the biggest cause of major recovery we’re seeing amongst UK organisations, and this trend will continue in 2017. As the sophistication of attacks continues...

F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) and Loryka today revealed the findings of a report examining the use of connected devices as cyber weapons by hackers. The report, entitled ‘DDoS’s Newest Minions: IoT Devices,’ was created by F5 Labs using data from F5 partner Loryka and shows that hackers are increasingly searching for products with network connectivity to manipulate for their own means. With one in three Brits set to give gifts leveraging the Internet of Things...

Malicious PowerShell scripts are on the rise, as attackers are using the framework’s flexibility to download their payloads, traverse through a compromised network, and carry out reconnaissance. Symantec analyzed PowerShell malware samples to find out how much of a danger they posed. Of all of the PowerShell scripts analyzed through the BlueCoat Malware Analysis sandbox, 95.4 percent were malicious. This shows that externally sourced PowerShell scripts are a major threat to enterprises. PowerShell – a...