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The increase in cybercrime, a growing global phenomenon, is likely to drive an increase in the use of complicated mathematical algorithms to encrypt sensitive data. And that may just about save the Blackberry name from being consigned to the history books. That’s the view of Geoff Green, president and chief executive officer of Myntex Inc. Green says: “The rapid adoption of digital technology and the scale of cybercrime globally represent significant challenges not only to law enforcement agencies but...

Following reports of increasing digital talent shortages in the UK, Bogdan Botezatu, Senior E-Threat Analyst at Bitdefender®, discusses why Security-as-a-Service could provide a short term fix. Increased cloud adoption is forcing businesses to boost investment in their security operations, subsequently driving demand for skilled security professionals. That being said, the rapid adoption of cloud computing, IT infrastructure and security has left a knowledge gap in terms of the security expertise available to address the increasing...

IP EXPO Europe, Europe's number one enterprise IT event, has today announced the addition of several influential industry speakers to this year’s keynote and seminar programme. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear how key IT issues are affecting businesses and humanity alike, from Author & Founding Director of Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute: Nick Bostrom; the ‘Father of Java’: James Gosling; the creator of the ‘MySpace worm’ and now an Independent Security Researcher:...

For students and parents all over the UK, A-level results day is one of the most important moments in the calendar year. This year on A level results morning, 424,000 students were placed in UK higher education, it’s therefore vital that technology plays its part at a time which is already stressful for a lot of young people. The number of people accessing the system in a short period of time is very high and...

SecureWorks® Counter Threat Unit (CTU)® researchers have tracked the spread of several notorious ransomware families to the Asia-Pacific region, underscoring efforts by some attackers to localise their tools to target multiple geographies. According to the CTU, the current top four ransomware families - Locky, Cerber, CryptXXX and TorrentLocker – are targeting computer users in Japan with localized versions of their threats. In addition, the threat actors behind CryptXXX have developed a localized version for South...

Researchers from Imperva have published a new blog post which warns against an increase in Luring attacks targeting dating sites via the TOR network. Luring attacks are mounted by a competing dating site to lure users from the victim site to the attacker site. Most Luring attacks target multiple dating services and send spam messages to a large number of users, inviting them to different dating sites, probably all controlled by the same hacker. The motivation...

Cybercriminals are using insiders to gain access to telecommunications networks and subscriber data, recruiting disaffected employees through underground channels or blackmailing staff using compromising information gathered from open sources - according to a Kaspersky Lab intelligence report into security threats facing the telecommunications industry. Telecommunications providers are a top target for cyber-attacks. They operate and manage the world’s networks, voice and data transmissions, and store vast amounts of sensitive data. This makes them highly attractive...

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) media platforms saw a tremendous spike in fraudulent activity ahead of the holiday season, a new report has revealed. As many Brits planned for their summer breaks and holidays in the sun, review sites and other media platforms have become a major target amongst cybercriminals over the last 90 days. During the second quarter of 2016 ThreatMetrix®, The Digital Identity Company™ – which protects and monitors more than 20 billion online transactions each...

Kaspersky Lab announced today the results of a survey, conducted in partnership with IDC Financial Insights, which found that banking customers are hesitant to use mobile features due to fraud and security concerns. The findings show that of those not using mobile banking at all today (36 per cent), more than half of them (74 per cent) cited security as the major reason, which could slow the overall adoption of mobile banking services during a...

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced changes in the banking industry that will enable customers to access the details of their entire finances through a single mobile phone app by 2018, raising inevitable security concerns. Not only will banks have to bolster security within their mobile banking applications, but they will also need to make sure that everyone within the supply chain meets the security requirements for these big changes in service provision,...