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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...

The Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP) has announced the findings from its 2016 member survey. With over 2,500 members working in security across a wide range of industries and roles, including a significant proportion at Senior/Lead/CISO level, the results of the IISP provide an accurate snapshot of the state of the UK cyber security landscape from those working on the frontline. The survey reveals that for over two thirds of members, information security budgets...

AdaptiveMobile, the world leader in mobile network security, predicts that up to 80% of connected devices currently deployed do not have adequate security measures in place, with four in five devices on the market vulnerable to malicious or inadvertent attacks and data breaches.  As the level of connectivity between devices continues to grow, a new model using a ‘big security’ approach of harnessing big data, telemetry and security algorithms is going to be needed to...