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Cloudmark’s Annual Security Threat Report is now available.  Through Cloudmark’s unique crowd sourced security platform, which analyses user behaviour from more than 1 billion subscribers and more than 10% of the world’s email traffic, it is able to detect the largest threats of the year and the impact they will have in 2016. 25,000 different malicious Bitly links detected, of which 97% are email spam and damaging brands such as CNN and AOL Spammers using this...

Personal finance and mobile banking apps are among the highest used mobile apps. Yet, despite high adoption and use, consumers remain wary. New research by Norton, Symantec’s consumer security business, looked at consumer perceptions of mobile security finding that consumers would be drastically more upset if a stranger were to obtain access to a mobile banking app than an app-controlled connected device (even a baby monitor or home entry system). In January 2016, Norton scanned...

This weekend saw Cyber Security Challenge UK team up with Protection Group International (PGI) to create the ultimate insight into a cyber criminals mind – a life-size recreation of a hacker’s bedroom. This event formed the first in a series of competitions for Cyber Security Challenge UK, which aims to find the UK’s best cyber security talent. Combining the unique facilities at PGI’s Cyber Academy and its security specialists, which include former UK Government experts...

With all the mud slinging between Apple and the FBI at the moment, privacy has never been so public.  While it’s clearly got many tech companies’ backs up, the fact remains – the British public doesn’t seem that bothered. A survey carried out by OnePoll on behalf of Comparitech.com, a pro-consumer privacy and security resource for guidance and reviews, showed that 77% of the British public thought that the Government should be able to intercept...

A new report from cyber security firm Proofpoint has revealed that Android users willing downloaded over two billion malicious mobile applications last year. The findings are from Proofpoint’s annual Human Factor Report, which looks at the latest cyber security trends cyber across email, social media and mobile apps. Some of the key findings from the study showed: After the US, China is the number one destination for data from malicious applications. Dangerous mobile apps from...

The latest edition of the annual Webroot® Threat Brief reveals 97% of malware is unique to a specific endpoint, rendering signature-based security virtually useless. The data collected by Webroot, the market leader in next-generation endpoint security and cloud-based collective threat intelligence, throughout 2015 clearly show that today’s threats are truly global and highly dynamic. Many attacks are staged, delivered, and terminated within a matter of hours, or even minutes, having harvested user credentials and other...

Kaspersky Lab’s Anti-malware Research Team has detected one of the most dangerous Android banking Trojans to date. The Acecard malware is capable of attacking users of nearly 50 different online financial applications and services and is able to bypass the Google Play store’s security measures. The Acecard Trojan family uses almost all of the malware functionality currently available – from stealing a bank’s text and voice messages, to overlaying official app windows with false messages...

Today, Gemalto can reveal that 707 million data records were compromised worldwide as a result of 1,673 data breaches, in its 2015 Breach Level Index (BLI) -  more than 3.6 billion data records have been exposed since 2013 when the index began benchmarking publicly disclosed data breaches. While it is no surprise that theft of identities and personal information retains top spot, accounting for 53% of data breaches; healthcare and government have overtaken retail as...

Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team has announced the discovery of the Poseidon Group, an advanced threat actor active in global cyber-espionage operations since at least 2005. What makes the Poseidon Group stand out is that it’s a commercial entity, whose attacks involve custom malware digitally signed with rogue certificates deployed to steal sensitive data from victims to coerce them into a business relationship. In addition, the malware is designed to function specifically on...

Are Industrial Control Systems the Latest Weapon in Modern Warfare? By Barry Mattacott, marketing director, Wick Hill Group Are industrial control and SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems the new frontier, not just for cyber-crime but also for cyberwar? Until recently, when you were at war with a country, you sent in your bombers. First they hit the military targets. Once they had finished those off, they would hit infrastructure, with attacks designed to...