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Kaspersky Lab has released a report on botnet-assisted DDoS attacks for the third quarter of 2016 based on data received from Kaspersky DDoS Intelligence*. Activity by attack servers located in Western Europe and the number of the resources attacked in the region have both increased. The number of sophisticated DDoS attacks emanating from encrypted traffic has also grown. Over the reporting period, resources in 67 countries were targeted by botnet-assisted DDoS attacks. The number of...

Centrify, the leader in securing enterprise identities against cyberthreats, today shared seven tips for enterprises to effectively combat cybercrime. Employee training and cyber awareness, combined with a solid defence strategy and best-in-class cybersecurity tools and software, are essential to reducing the risks of data breaches. In the modern age, cyber safety is just as important as physical safety. It’s time for every organisation to get proactive with cybersecurity, because every organisation is vulnerable to attack. Cyber...

The UK public has expressed that it would like to see the data deemed by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) to be unlawfully collected by GCHQ and MI5 on UK citizens for over a decade deleted.  This is according to a OnePoll survey conducted on behalf of security and privacy advice and comparison site Comparitech.com.  According to the study carried out on 1,000 members of the UK public, 70% said they would like to see...

Thales, a leader in critical information systems, cybersecurity and data protection, today announced the results of its survey into attitudes towards organisations that have experienced data breaches. The survey showed that 84 percent of respondents would reduce or eliminate the use of an organisation’s products or services following breaches, and only 16 percent of respondents would continue to use an organisation’s products or services as usual. If you found out an organisation whose products or...

Analytic software firm FICO today launched the FICO® Enterprise Security Score, a metric that reveals the likelihood an organisation will be breached due to a cyber attack. This score can be used by an enterprise to understand and shore up its defence gaps, and by third parties such as cyber insurance providers, potential partners and customers who need an objective measure of a firm’s cyber risk. The FICO Enterprise Security Score is an upgrade of...

Tenable Network Security, Inc.®, announced today that it has acquired FlawCheck, becoming the first vulnerability management company to provide security for Docker containers and support organizations’ modern DevOps processes. “Information technology is undergoing a profound change due to DevOps, containers and the mass migration of operations and infrastructure to the cloud,” said Renaud Deraison, chief technology officer and co-founder, Tenable Network Security. “Tenable understands that next-generation technologies bring with them a range of new security...

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, has found that the number of postings in the UK for positions requiring skills in Internet of Things (IoT) related technologies has increased by 70% over the past year, rising 120 places in the ranking of IT jobs. The figures from UK jobs statistics website IT Jobs Watch, as of 18th October, show that the growth in connected devices and implementation of smart city projects are fuelling demand...

Today, Citrix announced new research which revealed that an average of £27,818 is now spent by many local authorities on health and safety training, nearly double the spend in 2015 (£14,061 per local authority). This is considerably more than the amount being committed to data protection and IT security training - just £3,378 per local authority. This new data was obtained by a Freedom of Information (FoI) request issued to 129 local authorities, with 109...

Corero Network Security , a security solutions provider against DDoS attacks, has disclosed a significant new zero-day DDoS attack vector observed for the first time against its customers last week.  The new technique is an amplification attack, which utilizes the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): one of the most widely used protocols for accessing username and password information in databases like Active Directory, which is integrated in most online servers. While Corero’s team of DDoS mitigation...

Today, Huawei released its 2016 cybersecurity white paper ‘The Global Cyber Security Challenge -- It is time for real progress in addressing supply chain risks’ at the Information Security Forum (ISF) held in Berlin from October 22 to 25. The Huawei 2016 cybersecurity white paper reveals the continuous efforts of information and communications technology (ICT) providers across the globe in addressing supply chain security threats and in building end-to-end, reliable cybersecurity systems. It also highlights the...