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Millions of mobile app gamers are putting themselves at risk of social engineering by voluntarily allowing apps from official play stores to access, and in some cases control, their devices. A study conducted by AppRiver, the cloud-based email and Web security specialist, found that the top games listed in Google’s Play Store – which have had millions of global downloads – demand permissions for full network access and read the contents of storage. This type...

Netwrix Corporation, the first vendor to introduce a visibility and governance platform for hybrid cloud security, today announced the results of its second global Cloud Security Survey. Security and privacy of data and systems in the cloud remains a top worry for 70% of IT professionals worldwide, up from 63% in 2015. The top three cloud security concerns in 2016 are unauthorized access (69%), malware (37%) and denial of service (DoS) attacks (34%). Even though cloud service...

Touted by Gartner as one of the leading technology trends in 2017, artificial intelligence (AI) will offer unrivalled opportunities to sustain the future of the data centre industry by helping data centre operators improve the energy efficiency of a facility. This is according to Greg McCulloch, CEO of Aegis Data who argues that as AI continues to mature and gain widespread adoption across the enterprise, data centre operators must also begin tapping into the potential benefits that...

New research from Kaspersky Lab has found that only six per cent of consumers believe they should cover the cost of financial loss in the event of a fraudulent attack, with many assuming that a third party will cover their losses and almost half (49 per cent) of online fraud victims expecting their bank to pay out. The findings also reveal the high rate of attacks, with 65 per cent of consumers suffering online fraudulent...

CNS Group, an independent UK cyber security consultancy, has today announced the results of its 2016 Incident Response Survey. Carried out at IP Expo 2016, the survey raises concerns about the confidence of IT professionals in their security incident response plans and the impact of this upon their organisations. Twenty-six percent of respondents were fairly unconfident or not very confident in their organisation’s security incident response plan. Despite this continued lack of confidence, respondents understood...

Black Friday has become the biggest shopping day of the year, when retailers knock prices across much of their stock to kick-start the gift-buying season but BroadGroup has warned datacentres to prepare for an infrastructure melee potentially on the scale of a DDoS-attack from the expected deluge of customers. Philip Low, Chairman of BroadGroup said: “This year, internet sales over the 24-hour period are expected to surpass £1bn for the first time in UK history. ...

Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) of any size risk being hit with major fines if they fail to comply with the terms of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This is according to managed service provider The Bunker who argues that, irrespective of size and where they sit in the supply chain, CSPs need to have the relevant capabilities and security in their DNA if they wish to achieve and maintain full compliance.  The GDPR comes...

FireMon, the global leader in Network Security Policy Management (NSPM), has today published a report entitled Quantifying the Value of Firewall Management, conducted by research firm Aberdeen Group. The report illustrates the increasingly complex problem of firewall sprawl and quantifies the median savings after implementing a firewall management solution of more than three million dollars for a typical mid-size organisation.  For the typical Fortune 500 company, the savings could be tens of millions of dollars. ...

Ten of the UK’s best codebreakers are representing Britain in the 2016 European Cyber Security Challenge this week in Dusseldorf. Britain’s best cyber talent will be tested in a series of cyber security challenges, examining skills from network analysis to digital forensics and cryptography. The UK team will be competing against teams from Germany, Spain, Romania, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Greece, Ireland and Estonia. This year’s team includes a 17-year-old student, who develops Android apps in...

People must feel safe and secure with the Internet of Things before it can reach its full potential - and there are a lot of things that still need to be addressed, Greenwave Systems’ chief scientist and technology evangelist Jim Hunter warned today. Speaking at Web Summit, Hunter said security is the single biggest hurdle when it comes to monetizing the Internet of Things (IoT), particularly in the wake of incidents like last month’s Mirai...