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With the summer holiday season well underway many families will be getting ready to jet off to sunnier climates, and a new study from ESET has revealed that a quarter of holidaymakers will be packing as many as eight gadgets into suitcases this year, however almost 40 percent of those devices will not be password protected leaving them wide open if they to fall into the wrong hands. The survey, which was carried out in June 2016...

As nearly half a million of fans descend upon Rio de Janeiro this summer, visitors and residents alike need to be aware of fraudsters and cybercriminals, warns ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment, banking and fraud prevention solutions. Brazil has among the world’s highest rates of debit and credit card fraud, according to the 2016 Global Consumer Fraud Survey, published by ACI Worldwide and Aite earlier this month. The research...

Ransomware is one of the most infuriating kinds of cyber attack that's cropped up over recent years, with hackers raking it in from hapless comouter users who just want their files back. Whilst we all hope for a perfect online community where such things wouldn't happen, it's evident that future is a long way away. So the team at AppRiver have got several tips on how to prepare for the ransomware threat and adjust your security...

Top tips from Sophos’ Naked Security to make you, and your Sysadmin’s, life a bit easier. We don’t need Sysadmin Day to remind ourselves who creates all those IT problems we keep running into. We know the answer already: the cause of every IT problem can be traced back to Someone Else! But we do need Sysadmin Day to remember who fixes those problems: Sysadmins, the men and women who keep everything working so everyone...

Citizens rely on government to keep their data safe, wherever it’s held and whatever technology they use, however, a recent survey into Central Government, Local Authorities and the Blue Light & Justice sector reveals that citizen data is handled precariously with a disturbing lack of confidence in exactly how (or if) it is protected when using cloud models. GovNewsDirect conducted Your Data in The Cloud: Manage, Move & Protect 2016 public sector survey  alongside NetApp, which has...

Imperva, Inc. (NYSE: IMPV), committed to protecting business-critical data and applications in the cloud and on-premises, today announced the availability of Imperva ThreatRadar IP Reputation for Imperva Skyfence, a new threat intelligence offering that helps Imperva customers detect threats to enterprise data in SaaS applications from known bad actors. Imperva Skyfence cloud access security broker (CASB) integrates with Imperva CounterBreach, Imperva Incapsula and now ThreatRadar IP Reputation Services to provide a comprehensive solution that helps...

The recent news of an iPhone bug that allows hackers to steal passwords with just a text message should serve as a stark reminder about the huge market for stolen user credentials and the vulnerability of passwords. This is according Secure Cloud Link, who argue that organisations and individuals must realise that passwords are now an untenable means of authentication and present a major security risk. The security bug, which has now been repaired, meant...

According to new research from the global leader in professional IT resourcing, Experis, nearly six in ten IT leaders (59%) believe the ‘traditional’ IT department no longer exists in modern business. The optimum IT teams of 2020 will be vastly different from the ones we know today with a rise in contingent workers, wider skill sets, and a shift in team age range and gender balance. For the report, Tomorrows Tech Teams, Experis surveyed 1,000...

Password managers are tools that help you keep track of the numerous accounts that a modern digital lifestyle needs. These days, it’s not just passwords for your mainstream online accounts such as webmail, Facebook and Twitter. Even activities that you probably don’t associate with online life – renting an apartment, for example, registering to pay tax, or applying for a visa – often end up at a web page that requires you to create an...

UK government websites can now be deployed within minutes by re-using the familiar http//gov.uk theme produced by Government Digital Services (GDS) along with Bootstrap technology, allowing access from all devices. Open Source Software specialist OpusVL has made it possible to take the official Gov.UK website theme created by Government Digital Services with an Open license, and reproduce it quickly and easily using Bootstrap, a HTML, CSS and JavaScript framework originating from Twitter, which is used...