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A survey carried out by Lieberman Software Corporation has discovered that, ironically, the majority (55%) of IT professionals make their users change their passwords more regularly than they themselves change administrative credentials. The study that polled almost 200 IT professionals at RSA Conference 2016 also found that a worrying 10% of them never change administrative credentials at all. Meanwhile, 74% change administrative passwords on only a monthly or less frequent basis. So, despite IT professional...

Yesterday afternoon, reports started being published that The National Childbirth Trust (NCT) had suffered a data breach. The charity has apologised to 15,000 new and expectant parents after their registration details were accessed in a "data breach". The NCT sent a message to its members saying that their email addresses, usernames and passwords had been "compromised". The incident has been reported to police and the UK's data watchdog. The NCT stressed no other information had been...

With UK firms losing £18 billion in revenue from cyberattacks in 2015 alone1, IT experts are warning companies that social engineering presents a bigger threat to businesses than hacking, spamming or DDOS attacks. According to Jason Fry, Managing Director at PAV I.T. Services - a company that works with clients across the UK providing technical solutions including training to prevent hacking and data security breaches – social engineering, a series of con techniques designed to...

An investigation conducted in early 2016 by cyber security company F-Secure discovered thousands of severe weaknesses in corporate networks that attackers can use to infiltrate companies. The investigation used F-Secure Radar, a vulnerability scanning and management solution, to uncover tens of thousands of instances of misconfigured systems, unpatched software and other weaknesses, confirming to security experts that many companies don’t have enough visibility over their networks. The investigation found that, out of nearly 85,000 instances...

Reports started surfacing this week that one of the world's largest data leaks, being referred to as the Panama Papers, is shedding light on offshore financing of some of the richest and most powerful people around the globe. The leak, which included over 11.5 million files including emails, invoices and bank records, came from Mossack Fonseca, a law firm in Panama that is reportedly one of the world's biggest creators of shell companies. As with Snowden, Wikileaks,...

Insider threat events are prevalent in all organisations and that they often go completely under detected by in-place security measures according to Imperva’s new Hacker Intelligence Initiative Report. While many organisations are buffing up their security layers, most of the focus is on preventing direct threats that come from outside, and detecting threats from within is neglected. While all of the customers involved in the study had the “right” security layers in place, they were not...

The majority of UK consumers (63%) would willingly share data about their daily habits with companies for monetary gain, reveals a new Intel Security sponsored survey. A further 61% said they would give a company access to their connected home habits if they were paid for it. The Global Internet of Things Smart Home Survey also found that Brits would be more receptive to embracing smart home technology if there were monetary incentives to do...

A new study of nearly 600 IT practitioners by FireMon called the 2016 State of the Firewall Report has shown that while respondents recognise that the firewall needs to evolve, it still remains a central part of today’s security infrastructure.  Emerging infrastructure paradigms such as Software Defined Networking (SDN), cloud and micro-segmentation will drive this evolution.  In fact, 90 percent of respondents recognised that SDN has impacted or will impact networks, pointing to an important...

Over two-thirds of companies prefer to bank with a provider who has a solid security reputation, according to a Kaspersky Lab survey. Those banks that make security a priority and take every effort to ensure measures are in place to safeguard against online financial fraud will have an advantage, when it comes to retaining existing customers and reaching new ones. The research found that nine out of ten (94 per cent) companies now use online...

With an increase in the amount of ransomware attacks recently, John Zorabedian at Sophos has put together eight tips to prevent against a ransomware attack.   Chances are you know someone, or some organisation, who has suffered a ransomware attack – it could be your local police department, a small business, big hospital, or someone in your family. If you haven’t been hit by ransomware personally, you’re either very lucky, or you’ve taken some proactive steps to protect your computers...