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Proofpoint has today published its Quarterly Threat Report which analyses attacks across email, mobile and social across the last three months. The first five months of 2016 were dominated by malicious email campaigns of unprecedented volume. New ransomware variants emerged quickly. Meanwhile, Dridex actors began distributing Locky ransomware and repeatedly shifted tactics with new loaders, document attachment types, and obfuscation techniques to evade detection. Then at the end of May, one of the largest botnets...

Unisys Corporation has today announced that its UK subsidiary has been selected by Yorkshire Building Society Group (YBSG), the UK’s second largest building society, to provide its Unisys Stealth® data protection product to secure customer information and facilitate compliance with the new Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS). To achieve and maintain PCI compliance, financial institutions need to securely control access to their organisations’ payment card data by only allowing authorised colleagues and technology to...

Flashpoint, the global leader in Deep & Dark Web data and intelligence, today released a new research report titled Tech for Jihad: Dissecting Jihadists’ Digital Toolbox. This report analyzes the specific tools and mechanisms behind the online presence of jihadist groups such as ISIS to illuminate technology’s role in proliferating these actors’ radical agendas. “In order to both gain popularity among potential supporters and instill fear in their adversaries, jihadists need consistent channels through which...

Cybersecurity education efforts are yielding results, with 61 percent of respondents to a survey conducted by Palo Alto Networks saying they would speak with IT before introducing new devices onto a corporate network or adding business applications and tools onto unsecured devices. With more than 25% of identified attacks in enterprises expected to involve IoT by 2020,   – and many expected to enter the workplace – this survey finding represents a significant step in...

Consumer security and privacy comparison and advice website, Comparitech.com, is calling for Virtual Private Network (VPN) providers to resist touting themselves as the “fastest” because, in essence, there is no such thing and these claims can be misleading for consumers. It says continuing to advertise with such ambiguity will erode consumer trust over time in the private VPN market.  However, with no governing body to help regulate VPN advertising, some self-regulation would do the industry...

CompTIA, the world’s leading non-profit association for the technology industry, has launched a new self-paced online training programme to help UK organisations educate their staff in the fundamentals of cybersecurity in the workplace. CompTIA CyberSecure™ gives employees practical cybersecurity awareness tips and helps them realise that their everyday actions are the crucial first step in protecting their organisation against data breaches and other threats. The cost of data breaches continues to soar, with the average...

A survey of 300 IT security professionals carried out by security management vendor FireMon at last month’s Infosecurity Europe has concluded that 65% believe that they would be grounded in some capacity for the messy state of their firewall rules. Of those, over half, or one-third of the total surveyed, said that if their firewall rules were a teenager’s bedroom, Mum would be so angry, she would ground them for life; and just 35% were...

A new global research initiative conducted by BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ: BBRY; TSX: BB), a global leader in secure mobile communications, finds that despite extensive resources dedicated to mobile security, many IT decision-makers remain concerned about the level of vulnerabilities that persist. The study surveyed 1,000 executives from seven countries across a wide range of vertical industries, including financial services, government and healthcare. The survey reveals that 73 percent of organisations have a mobile security strategy...

Billions of connected devices are potentially at risk unless security sensitive software can be managed to an e-commerce standard, according to a group of leading technology security experts. The companies, including ARM, Intercede, Solacia and Symantec worked together to assess the security challenges of connecting billions of devices across multiple sectors; including industrial, home, health services and transportation. Their conclusion was that any system could be compromised unless a system-level root of trust was established....

Britain’s decision to leave the European Union has led some data professionals to think that they will no longer be affected by EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) due to come into force in 2018. “Although it’s very early days, there are some misconceptions around the impact of Brexit on the many thousands of organisations responsible for storing and managing sensitive personal data,” said John Cassidy, VP EMEA, Ground Labs. Any business that stores, transmits...