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Huawei has released its Game Mean Opinion Score (gMOS) experience criteria for evaluating the subjective experience of mobile gaming. This is the first time in the industry that a unified and quantitative language has been released in this regard. This criteria provides clear quantitative counters and guidance for all participants in the mobile gaming ecosystem, including game developers, operators, and users. As mobile handsets become increasingly popular, more and more mobile games are being made,...

HEAT Endpoint Security, following evaluation by the CESG Commercial Product Assurance (CPA) Scheme, is the first solution to be approved for use at Foundation Grade against the security characteristic of software execution control. With CPA certification, the HEAT Endpoint Security solution is now recommended for all public sector and commercial organizations looking to bolster defenses, in accordance with CESG guidelines, to prevent the impact of all types of malware. CESG is the National Technical Authority...

The Acunetix annual Web Application Vulnerability Report 2016 has found that high-severity vulnerabilities are on the rise and are now present in the majority of websites globally. The report looked at 45,000 website and network scans done on 5,700 scan targets from April 2015 to March 2016. Results show that not only do 55% of websites have one or more high-severity vulnerabilities, but this has significantly deteriorated in just one year, growing by 9% over 2015’s report. In...

Barnardo’s, one of the UK’s leading children’s charities, has selected Nexthink to provide greater insight into its IT infrastructure. By utilising IT analytics, the charity aims to accurately measure the end-user experience to improve the efficiency of incident management and service delivery. Barnardo’s works with more than 240,000 children, young people and their families each year, and its mission is to transform the lives of the UK’s most vulnerable children. With over 900 services running...

The Open Group, a vendor-and technology-neutral IT consortium, announced that Huawei has been accredited to the Open Trusted Technology Provider Standard (O-TTPS). The standard is aimed at assuring both the integrity of commercial off-the-shelf information and communication technology products and the security of their supply chains. The standard helps safeguard the products and their global supply chains against the increasing sophistication of cybersecurity attacks. The O-TTPS Accreditation Programme recognises Open Trusted Technology Providers who are conformant...

Cryptzone, a provider of dynamic, context-aware network security software, today announced the newest version of AppGate XDP, the company’s simple-to-deploy Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP) solution, for organizations looking to solve today’s most pressing security challenges. The Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP) approach to security evolved from the work done at the US Defense Information Systems Agency, and has been formalized as a specification published by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). It has recently been popularized by companies such...

Ever imagined being able to interact with the computer pixels in front of you without a screen? Just reaching into your computer to manipulate the information and visuals you’re looking at. The Microsoft HoloLens makes this a possibility. A ‘Mixed Reality’ device, HoloLens is positioned between Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality, recognising the surrounding environment and placing holograms in your world. UK innovation studio Kazendi, was one of the first companies in the UK to...

A new report has found that fraudulent social media profiles for brands has increased by 150% over the last year. Proofpoint has just released its inaugural Social Media Brand Fraud report which investigates the current state of social media brand fraud to understand bad actors’ methods and how this business risk is evolving. From April through June 2016, Proofpoint researched the prevalence and different types of fraudulent social media accounts associated with 10 top global brands (including...

Security management vendor, FireMon, today announced  a new standard in firewall change automation that takes into account the impact on compliance and security to reduce the manual effort and unnecessary security risk associated with today’s complex implementations. To date, customers leveraging the IPA framework have reduced the time to complete a change by more than 90%, while maintaining their security posture or even lowering the level of risk. FireMon Intelligent Policy Automation (IPA) is a...

At the beginning of the summer, Kaspersky Lab assisted in the arrest of suspects that were part of the Lurk gang, which allegedly stole more than 45 million dollars from a number of companies and banks in Russia. It was the largest financial cybercrime group to be caught in recent years. However, this wasn’t the only cybercriminal activity Lurk group has been involved in. According to analysis of the IT infrastructure behind the Lurk malware,...