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Kroll Ontrack, the data recovery and ediscovery services provider, reports that it is receiving a growing number of enquiries from corporates about how to recover from ransomware attacks. While ransomware is not new, attacks have tended to focus in the past on home and small business computers and, increasingly, on mobile devices.  According to Kroll Ontrack, these attacks tend to happen in different clusters or strands that die out after about a month as anti-virus...

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, today released the findings of the Breach Level Index for the first six months of 2015, revealing that 888 data breaches occurred, compromising 246 million records worldwide. Compared to the first half of 2014, data breaches increased by 10% while the number of compromised data records declined by 41% during the first six months of this year. This decline in compromised records can most likely be attributed to...

At the end of August, ESET telemetry has detected traces of activity of the infamous APT group, a.k.a Carbanak. ESET researchers investigating this gang’s activities offer an in-depth analysis of their findings in the blogpost titled “Carbanak Gang is Back and Packing New Guns,” which is now available on WeLiveSecurity.com. With victims mostly in the United States, Germany, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, the Carbanak group keeps attacking specific targets related to the finance industry,...

As computing insecurities are increasingly exploited, a week long focus on security awareness is planned to conclude this year’s cyber security month. From 26 – 30 October the IT security community is coming together to offer five days of workshops, webinars and other educational opportunities in a bid to improve IT security awareness and spread best practice within the business community, ultimately acting as an enabler to make UK PLC a safer place to trade online. ...

Veracode, a leader in protecting enterprises from today’s pervasive web and mobile application threats, today released analytics from its cloud-based platform showing that, based on its analysis of hundreds of thousands of scans of mobile apps installed in actual corporate environments, the average global enterprise has multiple gambling apps installed in its mobile environment. In fact, some environments were found to contain as many as 35 unique gambling apps. Many of these apps contain adware as...

Dell SecureWorks’ Counter Threat Unit (CTU) research team is warning organisations, if they are housing valuable intellectual property, industrial secrets, financial data or sensitive political information, to be on alert for threat actors trying to breach their computer systems, using little or no malware in their attacks.  In nearly all of the intrusions in the past year responded to by the Dell SecureWorks’ Incident Response Team, cyber criminals utilised the target’s own system credentials and...

By Martin Lee, Intelligence Manager at Alert Logic Cyber war is often in the headlines. The hype centered on state sponsored malware means that the lines defining fact and fiction often become blurred leading to increasing fear bordering on hysteria. However, cyber weapons have a very specific weakness that means that they might be less effective than anticipated in the real world. The discovery of Stuxnet in 2010 and the subsequent information leaks confirming that...

Cybersecurity firm F-Secure says over 70 per cent of businesses continue to leave themselves open to attacks by failing to update their software. The finding is surprising given the availability of security solutions that can help businesses control and manage software updating within their companies. A recent alert from the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team warns that up to 85 per cent of targeted attacks are preventable by following simple security precautions, most notably...

UK consumers feel helpless about increasingly complex online threats to their personal data and identity, a new study by Kaspersky Lab has found. High profile cyber-attacks on websites including Ashley Madison and Mumsnet, are overwhelming consumers with fear for their online privacy, freezing them into a state of indecision around how best to protect themselves from cyber threats. Kaspersky Lab has termed this feeling Privacy Paralysis. The survey of 1,000 UK adults revealed three-quarters of...

A new survey from Lieberman Software Corporation revealed that 83 percent of IT security professionals are still confident that their perimeter security tools, like firewalls, can react quickly enough to defend against today’s sophisticated cyber attacks. This assumption could ultimately be putting consumer and business data at risk. The study, which was conducted at Microsoft Ignite in May 2015 and measured the attitudes of nearly 150 IT professionals, also revealed 29 percent of those surveyed...