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Immunising against the spear phishing plague   By John Wilson, Field CTO, Agari Email has become the primary tool of communication for organisations, both within the business and externally with customers and third parties. But with this proliferation, email has also been tirelessly exploited by sophisticated cyber-criminals. With no security authentication built in, there is a fundamental flaw in the architecture of email that means anyone can send a message pretending to be from another...

Eskenzi PR, the consultancy behind Security Serious Week has today announced a brand new awards scheme called the Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards  which is now open for entries!    Run for the first time in 2016, the awards are designed to recognise the people, not products, on the front lines of organisations who battle cyber threats, often saving the bacon of the companies they work for.  The Unsung Heroes Awards will take place on Thursday...

New online research reveals a lack of awareness among adults of where to go for advice on protecting themselves online, or where they should turn to if they become a victim of fraud. The National Audit Office recently reported that government funding of £20m had been allocated in 2014/15 to drive engagement and awareness of the cyber threat among SMEs and individuals. Despite this investment, when given a list of UK organisations and campaigns linked...

The Panama Papers leak earlier this month should spur boards across the country to reconsider the safeguards they have in place to protect their business critical data, says secure hosting specialist The Bunker. The biggest ever data leak took place at the start of April when the offshore law firm, Mossack Fonseca, lost 11.5m files, constituting 2.6 Terabytes of data, after hackers breached its systems. Subsequent analysis of the breach suggests that the breach was...

What CISOs want in 2016 The role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has developed rapidly over recent years. Ten years ago, it was rare even to find someone fulfilling the CISO role in an organisation; security was often viewed by senior management as a technical subject best left to the IT department. Not any more. Security has achieved much greater attention in the world’s boardrooms, and CISOs are expected to be able to...

Infosecurity Europe, Europe’s largest and most comprehensive Information Security event, is delighted to announce that keynote presentations will be delivered by explorer and writer Levison Wood and The Right Honourable Lord Hague of Richmond at this year’s Infosecurity Europe taking place at OLYMPIA from Tuesday 7th - Thursday 9th June 2016. On Tuesday 7th June, explorer and writer Levison Wood will deliver the opening keynote presentation, drawing on his experiences walking the Nile and the...

New research from BehavioSec, the top provider of behavioral biometric solutions for multi-layered authentication and verification, reveals that our need for ease and convenience is putting our digital identities and security at risk. The report finds that 37% of us have shared our online log in details with a friend or partner. Convenience is the key driver, as well as a lack of understanding of the potential value of this data - 16% report that...

Last weekend, telecoms giant BT and the Cyber Security Challenge UK staged a mock investigation into a cyber-attack at London’s iconic BT Tower in a bid to find the country’s best hidden cyber security talent. Twenty-four of the brightest candidates from a series of online qualifying rounds were invited to compete against each other to investigate how a fictitious retail company came under vicious cyber-attack, show off their abilities in front of prospective employers and qualify...

Yesterday, 60 of the UK’s brightest 12-18 year olds will compete in the national finals of CyberCenturion, a country-wide cyber security competition jointly sponsored by Cyber Security Challenge UK and Northrop Grumman. The 10 teams will battle it out in a high pressure, face-to-face cyber defence scenario in a race against the clock to protect a fictitious Internet of Things start-up from a cyber attack. The finalists, who competed against hundreds of players from across the...

Almost any ATM in the world could be illegally accessed and jackpotted with or without the help of malware. According to research conducted by Kaspersky Lab experts, this is because of the widespread use of outdated and insecure software, mistakes in network configuration and a lack of physical security for critical parts of the ATM. For many years, the biggest threat to the customers and owners of ATMs were skimmers – special devices attached to...