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Threat intelligence from NuData Security, released today, provides insight into the ominous cyber fraud threats coming over this holiday period. Fraudsters are using increasingly sophisticated cyber fraud techniques and leveraging spikes in activity over Cyber Monday and holiday shopping periods to circumvent detection. As merchants and financial institutions implement additional security layers for automation, account takeover and fraud detection, hackers are evolving to find more complex and pervasive ways to commit fraudulent activities online. Much like a virus mutates...

Shoppers across the country are preparing for what was originally a U.S. phenomenon, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. According to research from Adobe, Black Friday has become the UK’s biggest online shopping day of the holiday season, with online revenues predicted to reach £901 million tomorrow. A few years ago holiday shopping mainly involved rushing around Oxford Street and elbowing people out of the way to grab the last shirt in your size for half...

Historic WWII codebreaking siteBletchley Park will once again play an active role in national security efforts under plans for it to house some of the UK’s most important new cyber security learning and innovation projects. The plans were announced today by QUFARO – a new not-for-profit body created by leading experts working in cyber security including senior figures from Cyber Security Challenge UK; The National Museum of Computing; the Institute of Information Security Professionals; BT...

Research by Norwegian app security firm Promon has demonstrated that, by exploiting a lack of security in the Tesla smartphone app, cybercriminals could take control of the company’s vehicles, to the point where they can locate, unlock and drive the car away unhindered. Such a hack gives criminals total control of the vehicle, providing additional functionality to that exposed by Keen Security Labs in a different hack in late September. As illustrated in a video...

New research from RiskIQ on the state of digital risk management in large, UK organisations reveals that while 82 percent of C-Suite and senior managers admit they are concerned about the vulnerability of their web sites, mobile applications and social media accounts to cyber attack and impersonation, over half (57 percent) do not have a digital brand protection programme or team in place and over a third (34 percent) are missing a dedicated cyber threat...

Visa has warned that new European rules on e-commerce threaten to seriously disrupt online shopping and cause inconvenience for consumers. The European Banking Authority (EBA) has brought forward proposals for how it will implement what is called strong customer authentication (SCA). The plans include a “one size fits all” approach where every online transaction over €10 will require additional steps at checkout such as entering passwords, codes or using a card reader. Independent consumer research...

UK Millennials have growing security concerns around sharing personal information with retailers, but their need for a convenient shopping experience still outweighs these worries, according to new research released today by LexisNexis® Risk Solutions. The report, UK Millennial Study: Privacy vs. Customer Experience in Retail, shows that despite Millennials being digitally connected via smartphones and laptops, more than half (52%) are concerned about having their identity stolen through online, or mobile/app-based activities, with women more...

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...