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More than 50 percent (54%) of retailers in Europe and the US still have to consolidate their fraud management solutions across all channels, according to new commissioned research conducted by Forrester Consulting for ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW) and published in a report titled, Managing Fraud in an Omni-Channel World. The research reveals that omni-channel data aggregation, the increasing number of payment options, the demand for faster fulfilment and the rapidly changing nature of fraud all...

Yesterday, Adobe put out an emergency update to fix a dangerous security hole in its widely-installed Flash Player browser plugin. They warned that the vulnerability is already being exploited in targeted attacks, and urged users to issue the patch as soon as possible. In the advisory that they put on their website yesterday, Adobe said the latest version of Flash — v. 18.0.0.194 on Windows and Mac OS X — fixes a critical flaw (CVE-2015-3113) that is being...

OPSWAT, a software company that provides solutions to secure and manage IT infrastructure, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued US Patent 9,021,163 entitled Determining Whether a Data Storage is Encrypted.  Inventors are Benjamin Czarny (CEO, OPSWAT), Jianpeng Mo (Director of Software Engineering, OPSWAT), and Boris Dynin (Consultant, Movil, inc.).  The patented technology is available today in OESIS Framework and will soon be available in OPSWAT Gears. About OPSWAT OESIS...

Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), provider of the leading software platform for real-time Operational Intelligence, today announced the results of new research in a report titled Masters of Machines II, from analyst firm Quocirca. Findings show that European organisations with the strongest Operational Intelligence capability are most likely to conquer the complexity of the fastest growing IT concerns. These concerns include security threats (up 25 per cent since 2013), data chaos (up 22 per cent) and...

A survey of 200 UK and 200 German organisations, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Tenable Network Security, Inc., the leader in continuous network monitoring, has found that UK organisations are not as quick to react to potential cyber vulnerabilities as their German counterparts. Twenty-nine percent of UK organisations said they could patch significant vulnerabilities, such as ShellShock and Heartbleed, within an hour, compared to 48 percent of German organizations. To detect new software...

Pindrop Security, the leading provider of call centre anti-fraud and authentication solutions for enterprise call centres, today announced the findings of its annual Phone Fraud Report. For the report, Pindrop analysed several million calls for threats using the company’s patented Phoneprinting™ technology and Phoneypot™ monitoring technology. The research found a 30 percent rise in enterprise attacks and more than 86.2 million attacks per month on U.S. consumers. Phone fraud continues to threaten enterprises across industries...

Cryptzone, a provider of dynamic, context-aware network, application and content security solutions, today announced that it has closed a $15 million Series B round of funding. The round was led by Kayne Partners, the growth private equity group of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P., an approximately $29-billion alternative investment firm. Nishita Cummings, Managing Director at Kayne Partners, will join the Cryptzone board representing the firm, which has invested in other leading-edge companies in the security...

OpenDNS, a leading provider of cloud-delivered network security, today announced that it has established its first Europe, The Middle East and Africa (EMEA) headquarters in London, accelerating its global expansion efforts. The US-based company will leverage its growing international presence to help companies in the region prevent their employees from reaching out to malicious sites and block incoming advanced threats that can infect their corporate networks — securing users and data anywhere, anytime, on any...

Tripwire, Inc., the global provider of advanced threat, security and compliance solutions, today announced the results of a study on cyber literacy challenges faced by organisations. The study, which was carried out in May 2015, evaluated the attitudes of executives as they relate to cybersecurity risk decision-making and communication between IT security professionals, executive teams and boards. Study respondents included 101 C-level executives and directors as well as 176 IT professionals from both private and...

Survey also reveals that 40 percent of ITDMs in UK firms have encountered a data breach or failed a compliance audit in the last 12 months Vormetric, a leader in enterprise data security for physical, virtual, big data, public, private and hybrid cloud environments, today announced the European findings of its 2015 ‘Insider Threat’ survey.  The survey was conducted online on its behalf by Harris Poll in fall 2014 among 818 enterprise IT decision makers...