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Approximately two-thirds of London’s citizens faced the threat of a potential data breach due to security failings in the capital’s 33 local authorities (32 London Boroughs and the City of London itself). This is according to research conducted by digital identity management company Secure Cloudlink. A Freedom of Information (FOI) request was issued to the 32 London Boroughs and the City of London authority to ascertain their security hygiene and to determine how well they...

Centrify, the leader in securing enterprise identities against cyberthreats, today released findings from its 2016 Online Shopping survey that examined consumer online shopping habits and attitudes towards security, including whether consumers change their passwords for different retailers and whether their security practices are influenced by promotional offers and special deals. The online study, commissioned by Centrify, finds that over 70 per cent of surveyed respondents will spend somewhere between £50-£1000 online shopping this Christmas. As online...

It was confirmed today that Eric Schultz, community manager for the not for profit prpl Foundation, the open-source, community-driven, collaborative, foundation with a focus on enabling next-generation datacenter-to-device portable software and virtualized architectures, has been collaborating with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Technological Advisory Council Software Controlled Radios Sub-Working Group.  In this role, Schultz will help educate and guide other TAC members on how proposed FCC regulations may affect the open source community and the...

Online shoppers want retailers to be transparent and honest if they have suffered a security breach, according to a new UK consumer survey commissioned byNTT Security, the global information security and risk management company. The research, ahead of one of the busiest online shopping periods in the lead up to Black Friday and Cyber Monday and Christmas, also reveals that customers want to know if a site has been hacked or personal data compromised. Asked...

Check Point’s research has shown that the number of malware attacks increased in October, as the company released its monthly Global Threat Index, a ranking of the most prevalent malware families attacking organizations’ networks. Check Point’s Threat Intelligence Research Team found that both the number of active malware families and number of attacks increased by 5% during the period, pushing the number of attacks on business networks to near peak levels, as seen earlier this...

Lastline Inc., the leader in advanced malware detection, announced that it has launched the Fall 2016 release of Lastline Enterprise. The Fall 2016 release is aimed at bolstering evasive malware detection support for Global 5000 enterprises. The Fall 2016 release caps off what has been a record setting year for the Lastline solution. The Company recently announced that it had crossed the five million protected user mark as both its direct enterprise and OEM business arms...

Global cybersecurity leader Forcepoint™ today released its 2017 Cybersecurity Predictions Report. This year’s report examines the increasing convergence of the technological and the physical worlds and the long term implications of this new digital ecosystem on organizations and institutions worldwide. Cybersecurity experts from Forcepoint and Raytheon collaborated to develop these predictions. The full report may be downloaded here. “The security challenges rising from the rapid integration of the digital and physical in 2017 will be...

New research by Kaspersky Lab sheds light on the complex digital lives of children, revealing those as young as ten actively attempt to hide their online world and circumnavigate the rules their parents set to govern internet use in the home today. With half of ten year olds (51 per cent) owning a tablet and a third (33 per cent) their own smart phone, a worrying 42 per cent believe they have the skills and...

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, today revealed that consumers prioritise security above all else when it comes to using smartphones, with 80% claiming that security is their most wanted feature in a mobile. This is according to a survey conducted by Gemalto, which polled consumers across the globe (1,300 interviews) about their mobile preferences. The report found that convenience is a top priority, too, with almost half of the consumers surveyed (48%) citing...

UK retailers are expected to see a dangerous spike in online criminal activity in the run up to Christmas 2016. According to recent data from ThreatMetrix®, The Digital Identity Company®, over 20 million cyber attacks are expected to target online retailers and shoppers in the UK alone, across the last quarter of the year. Data revealed today in the Q3 2016 Cybercrime Report indicates the latest trends across the global threat landscape. This is based...